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  • Ann Leckie’s "Ancillary Justice"

    A Critical Companion

    par David M. Higgins ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book argues that Ann Leckie’s novel Ancillary Justice offers a devastating rebuke to the political, social, cultural, and economic injustices of American imperialism in the post 9/11 era. Following an introductory overview, the study offers four chapters that examine key themes central to the novel: gender, imperial economics, race, and revolutionary agency. Ancillary Justice’s exploration of ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Reactionary Worldbuilding

    From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice

    Modifié par Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, David M. Higgins, Jordan S. Carroll ...
    The first in-depth study of the dark side of worldbuilding, exploring the connection between speculative imagination and political practice.Speculative imagination brings to life an array of possible worlds that differ in crucial ways from the one governed by shared assumptions of the “normal,” “real,” or “inevitable.” This act of speculation—known as worldbuilding—has become undeniably resurgent ... En savoir plus

    $95.99 CAD

  • Reverse Colonization

    Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-victimhood

    par David M. Higgins ...
    Collections series New American Canon
    Reverse colonization narratives are stories like H. G. Wells’s War of the Worlds, in which technologically superior Martians invade and colonize England. They ask Western audiences to imagine what it’s like to be the colonized rather than the colonizers. David Higgins argues that although some reverse colonization stories are thoughtful and provocative, reverse colonization fantasy has also led to ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • National Brands and Global Markets

    An Historical Perspective

    Modifié par Nikolas Glover, David M. Higgins ...
    Collections series
    Between Brexit, efforts to ‘Make America great again’, and ongoing appeals for patriotic consumption to boost economies, the intersection between national identity, marketing campaigns, and consumer choices has been brought to the fore. This book maps out this terrain and provides a framework for how research on ‘Made in’ campaigns and programmes in individual countries can be placed into a ... En savoir plus

    $75.99 CAD

  • Brands, Geographical Origin, and the Global Economy

    A History from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

    par David M. Higgins ...
    Collections series Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise
    Indications of geographic origin for foodstuffs and manufactures have become an important source of brand value since the beginnings of globalization during the late nineteenth century. In this work, David M. Higgins explores the early nineteenth-century business campaigns to secure national and international protection of geographic brands. He shows how these efforts culminated in the ... En savoir plus

    $139.99 CAD

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  • The Utopia of Rules

    On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

    par David Graeber ...
    From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our livesWhere does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence?To answer these questions, the anthropologist David Graeber—one of ... En savoir plus

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  • The Posthuman

    par Rosi Braidotti ...
    The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally linked and technologically mediated societies. This has blurred the traditional distinction between the human and its others, exposing the non ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion

    par Tansy E. Hoskins ...
    *Selected by Emma Watson for her Ultimate Book List*Fashion is political. From the red carpets of the Met Gala to online fast fashion, clothes tell a story of inequality, racism and climate crisis. In The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion, Tansy E. Hoskins unpicks the threads of capitalist industry to reveal the truth about our clothes.Fashion brands entice us to consume more by manipulating us to ... En savoir plus

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  • The Great Awakening vs the Great Reset

    par Alexander Dugin ...
    Alexander Dugin's The Great Awakening vs the Great Reset is an open declaration of war against the twin diseases of liberalism and Western political modernity. Dugin calls upon the inhabitants of the Heartland to relentlessly attack, on all theoretical and practical fronts, the global elites of the coastlands, who try to impose their perverse, anti-human ideals by ruthlessly eradicating the long ... En savoir plus

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  • The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction

    par Istvan Csicsery-Ronay ...
    This major critical work from one of the preeminent voices in science fiction scholarship reframes the genre as a way of understanding today's world.As the application of technoscience increasingly transforms every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. Though the broad scope of science fiction may vary in artistic quality and ... En savoir plus

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  • Quarterly Essay 70 Dead Right

    How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next

    par Richard Denniss ...
    Collections Livre 70 - Quarterly Essay
    How did the big banks get away with so much for so long? Why are so many aged-care residents malnourished? And when did arms manufacturers start sponsoring the Australian War Memorial?In this passionate essay, Richard Denniss explores what neoliberalism has done to Australian society. For decades, we have been led to believe that the private sector does everything better, that governments can’t ... En savoir plus

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  • Speculative Whiteness

    Science Fiction and the Alt-Right

    par Jordan S. Carroll ...
    Collections series Forerunners: Ideas First
    Reveals the alt-right’s project to claim science fiction and—by extension—the futureFascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagination required to invent a high-tech future. Other white nationalists envision racist utopias filled with Aryan supermen and all-white space colonies. Speculative Whiteness traces these ideas ... En savoir plus

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