Zone Books
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Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive
$26.95 Add to cart“In its form, this book is a kind of perpetual commentary on testimony. It did not seem possible to proceed otherwise. At a certain point, it became clear that testimony contained at its core an essen
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 09 2002
- ISBN10: 189095117X
- Language: English
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Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation
$35.00 Add to cartSlicing through blunt theories of supply and demand, Callon presents a rigorously researched but counterintuitive model of how everyday market activity gets produced.
If you’re convinced you know what- Series: Near Future
- Author: Callon, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1942130570
- Language: English
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Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age
$31.00 Read moreThe hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care more about the moods of their shareholders than about longstanding commercial success; governments subordi
- Series: Zone / Near Futures
- Author: Feher, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 26 2018
- ISBN10: 1942130120
- Language: English
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Who Are You?: Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe
$39.00 Read moreWho are you? And how can you prove it? How were individuals described and identified by people who had never seen them before, in the centuries before photography and fingerprinting, in a world withou
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Groebner, Valentin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 27 2007
- ISBN10: 1890951722
- Language: English
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Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion
$34.00 Read moreFragmentation and Redemption is first of all about bodies and the relationship of part to whole in the high Middle Ages, a period in which the overcoming of partition and putrefaction was the very ima
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Bynum, Caroline Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 11 1992
- ISBN10: 0942299620
- Language: English
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Amerasia
$40.00 Read moreA connected world as imagined by early modern European artists, mapmakers, and writers, where Asia and the Americas were on a continuum
America and Asia mingled in the geographical and cultural imagin- Author: Horodowich, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 194213083X
- Language: English
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The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine
$27.95 Add to cartThe true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But when we look into the past, our sense of reality wavers: accounts of the body i
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Kuriyama, Shigehisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0942299892
- Language: English
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Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
$26.95 Read moreChronicle of the Guayaki Indians is Pierre Clastres’s account of his 1963-64 encounter with this small Paraguayan tribe, a precise and detailed recording of the history, ritual, myths, and culture of
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Clastres, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 29 2001
- ISBN10: 0942299787
- Language: English
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The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón
$42.00 Read moreIn this long-awaited study, Claudio Lomnitz tells an unprecedented story about the experience and ideology of American and Mexican revolutionary collaborators of the Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores M
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Lomnitz, Claudio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 598
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 1935408437
- Language: English
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The Everyday Life of Memorials
$37.00 Add to cartA timely study, erudite and exciting, about the ordinary–and oftentimes unseen–lives of memorials
Memorials are commonly studied as part of the commemorative infrastructure of modern society. Just a- Author: Shanken, Andrew M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1942130724
- Language: English
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Iconophages: A History of Ingesting Images
$36.00 Add to cartAn unprecedented art-historical account of practices of image ingestion from ancient Egypt to the twentieth century
Eating and drinking images may seem like an anomalous notion but, since antiquity, i- Author: Koering, J?r?mie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1890951277
- Language: English
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The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork
$24.95 Add to cartSince the middle of the eighteenth century, political thinkers of all kinds — radical and reactionary, professional and amateur — have been complaining about “bureaucracy.” But what, exactly, is all
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Kafka, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 194213035X
- Language: English
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The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China
$31.00 Add to cartIn this strikingly original contribution to our understanding of Chinese philosophy, Fran ois Jullien uses the Chinese concept of shi — disposition or circumstance, power or potential — as a touchst
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Jullien, Francois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 10 1999
- ISBN10: 0942299957
- Language: English
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Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece
$35.00 Add to cartJean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature. In this work, the a… [more below]
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Vernant, Jean-Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 17 1990
- ISBN10: 0942299191
- Language: English
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The Organism
$35.00 Add to cartIn this remarkable book by one of the great psychologists and neurologists of the early twentieth century, Kurt Goldstein presents a summation of his “holistic” theory of the human organism. In the co
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Goldstein, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: April 04 2000
- ISBN10: 0942299973
- Language: English
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Matter and Memory
$31.00 Add to cart“Since the end of the last century,” Walter Benjamin wrote, “philosophy has made a series of attempts to lay hold of the ‘true’ experience as opposed to the kind that manifests itself in the standardi
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Bergson, Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0942299051
- Language: English
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Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality
$31.00 Read moreHearing has traditionally been understood as the second sense — less rational and modern than seeing, the master of all senses, the first sense. Reason and Resonance is the first full-length study to
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Erlmann, Veit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: August 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1935408054
- Language: English
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Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection
$31.00 Add to cartToward the end of the Middle Ages, medical writers and philosophers began to devote increasing attention to what they called “women’s secrets,” by which they meant female sexuality and generation. At
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Park, Katharine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: April 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1890951684
- Language: English
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Death and the Idea of Mexico
$31.00 Add to cartDeath and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of death and of the death sign from
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Lomnitz, Claudio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: January 04 2008
- ISBN10: 1890951544
- Language: English
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A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity
$26.95 Read moreWhat is the origin of music? In the last few decades this centuries-old puzzle has been reinvigorated by new archaeological evidence and developments in the fields of cognitive science, linguistics, a
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Tomlinson, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1890951528
- Language: English
