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  • Coed Revolution

    The Female Student in the Japanese New Left

    by Chelsea Szendi Schieder ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    In the 1960s, a new generation of university-educated youth in Japan challenged forms of capitalism and the state. In Coed Revolution Chelsea Szendi Schieder recounts the crucial stories of Japanese women's participation in these protest movements led by the New Left through the early 1970s. Women were involved in contentious politics to an unprecedented degree, but they and their concerns were ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Powers of Reading

    From Plato to Audiobooks

    by Peter Szendy ...
    Translated by Olivia Custer ...
    A historical, literary, and philosophical study that transforms our understanding of reading"Peter Szendy offers a subtle, persuasive, and unprecedented account of the time of reading and its scene of address, one that is as archaic as it is contemporary. When we read, are we listening to a voice or being read to? If it is not a private and monologic exercise, how do we understand the populated ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Voice, Otherwise

    Ventriloquism, Stuttering, and Other Accidents

    by Peter Szendy, Laura Odello ...

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Order of Sounds

    A Sonorous Archipelago

    by Francois J. Bonnet ...
    Series Book 2 - Urbanomic / Mono
    This study of the subtlety, complexity, and variety of modes of hearing maps out a “sonorous archipelago”—a heterogeneous set of shifting sonic territories shaped by the vicissitudes of desire and discourse.Profoundly intimate yet immediately giving onto distant spaces, both an “organ of fear” and an echo chamber of anticipated pleasures, an uncontrollable flow subject to unconscious selection and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Listen

    A History of Our Ears

    by Peter Szendy ...
    An enlightening exploration of the concept of listening and the evolving role of the listener from Beethoven to Charlie Parker to contemporary remixing.In this intimate meditation on listening, Peter Szendy examines what the role of the listener is, and has been, through the centuries. The roles of the composer and the musician are clear, but where exactly does the listener stand in relation to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Given Time II

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Bennington, Peggy Kamuf ...
    The long-awaited conclusion to Derrida’s seminar on the gift and time.In 1991, Jacques Derrida published the first half of a seminar delivered from 1978 to 1979 on gifts and time, but the second installment (though expected) was not completed in his lifetime. Given Time II completes the seminar with eight sessions that showcase Derrida’s most advanced work on the problematic of the gift in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • For an Ecology of Images

    by Peter Szendy ...
    Translated by Marco Roth ...
    A new, ecological approach to images by a renowned philosopherWhen Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an “ecology of images,” she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the vast surplus of pictures threatening our ability to truly see. Today, beyond the deep anxieties over a diminishing attention economy, concern focuses on the environmental cost of storing and circulating the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Five Principles of War

    by Dr. Ruszin-Szendi Romulusz ...
    War has been an indelible part of human civilisation since the dawn of history, and the war in our neighbourhood has shown that it is not just a remote event in time and space. Conflict, violence and war are an integral and terrible part of human behaviour, whether it is the world conflagrations that have covered continents in blood or the clashes that have blighted our daily lives. The outbreak ... Read more

    $9.66 USD

  • Phantom Limbs

    On Musical Bodies

    by Peter Szendy ...
    Translated by Will Bishop ...
    The prostheses Peter Szendy explores—those peculiar artifacts known as musical instruments—are not only technical devices but also bodies that live a strange phantom life, as uncanny as a sixth finger or a third lung.The musicological impulse to inventory those bodies that produce sound is called into question here. In Szendy’s hands, its respectable corpus of scholarship is read aslant, so as to ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Apocalypse-Cinema

    2012 and Other Ends of the World

    by Peter Szendy ...
    Translated by Will Bishop ...
    Apocalypse-cinema is not only the end of time that has so often been staged as spectacle in films like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Terminator. By looking at blockbusters that play with general annihilation while also paying close attention to films like Melancholia, Cloverfield, Blade Runner, and Twelve Monkeys, this book suggests that in the apocalyptic genre, film gnaws at its own ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • All Ears

    The Aesthetics of Espionage

    by Peter Szendy ...
    Translated by Roland Végső ...
    The world of international politics has recently been rocked by a seemingly endless series of scandals involving auditory surveillance: the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping is merely the most sensational example of what appears to be a universal practice today. What is the source of this generalized principle of eavesdropping?All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage traces the long history of moles from ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials

    Cosmopolitical Philosofictions

    by Peter Szendy ...
    Translated by Will Bishop ...
    “Yes, Kant did indeed speak of extraterrestrials.” This phrase could provide the opening for this brief treatise of philosofiction (as one speaks of science fiction). What is revealed in the aliens of which Kant speaks—and he no doubt took them more seriously than anyone else in the history of philosophy—are the limits of globalization, or what Kant called cosmopolitanism.Before engaging Kantian ... Read more

    $32.39 USD