Zone Books
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Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language
$27.95 Read moreJust as speech can be acquired, so can it be lost. Individuals can forget words, phrases, even entire languages, and over the course of time speaking communities, too, let go of the tongues that were
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Heller-Roazen, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 04 2008
- ISBN10: 1890951501
- Language: English
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The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture
$27.95 Read moreThe Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning thirty years of research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and philosophy
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 13 2009
- ISBN10: 1890951560
- Language: English
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The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece
$24.95 Add to cartThe Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece traces the odyssey of “truth,” Aletheia, from mythoreligious to philosophical thought in archaic Greece. Marcel Detienne’s starting point is a simple observation… [more below]
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Vidal-Naquet, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 12 1999
- ISBN10: 0942299868
- Language: English
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Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation
$35.00 Add to cartA historical account of masturbation as a moral issue and cultural taboo.
At a time when almost any victimless sexual practice has its public advocates and almost every sexual act is fit for the front- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Laqueur, Thomas W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: October 30 2004
- ISBN10: 1890951331
- Language: English
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La Jetée: Ciné-Roman
$49.00 Add to cartLa Jet e is the book version of the legendary 1964 science fiction film about time and memory after a nuclear apocalypse. Chris Marker, the undisputed master of the filmic essay, composed the film alm
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Marker, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: May 04 1993
- ISBN10: 0942299663
- Language: English
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Theory of Religion
$33.00 Add to cartTheory of Religion brings to philosophy what Georges Bataille’s earlier book The Accursed Share brought to anthropology and history, namely, an analysis based on notions of excess and expenditure. No
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 09 1992
- ISBN10: 0942299094
- Language: English
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Publics and Counterpublics
$31.00 Add to cartPublics and Counterpublics revolves around a central question: What is a public? The idea of a public is a cultural form, a kind of practical fiction, present in the modern world in a way that is very
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Warner, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 10 2005
- ISBN10: 1890951293
- Language: English
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Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy’s Architecture and Biopolitics
$31.00 Read morePublished for the first time in 1953, Playboy was not only the first pornographic popular magazine in America; it also came to embody an entirely new lifestyle through the construction of a series of
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Preciado, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1935408496
- Language: English
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The Normal and the Pathological
$35.00 Add to cartThe Normal and the Pathological is one of the crucial contributions to the history of science in the last half century. It takes as its starting point the sudden appearance of biology as a science in
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Canguilhem, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 16 1991
- ISBN10: 0942299590
- Language: English
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Biological Motion: A History of Life
$33.00 Add to cartA captivating exploration of the changing definitions of life in biology
Biological Motion studies the foundational relationship between motion and life. To answer the question, “What is Life?,” prize- Author: Wellmann, Janina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1942130813
- Language: English
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Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe
$35.00 Add to cartIn the period between 1150 and 1550, an increasing number of Christians in western Europe made pilgrimage to places where material objects — among them paintings, statues, relics, pieces of wood, ear
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Bynum, Caroline Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1935408119
- Language: English
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Walled States, Waning Sovereignty
$21.95 Add to cartWhy, just two decades after international celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall, are so many nation-states building elaborate walls at or near their borders? Why walls now, given growing global
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Brown, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1935408038
- Language: English
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Objectivity
$37.00 Add to cartObjectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. In Objectivity, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences — and show how the
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Daston, Lorraine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: July 12 2010
- ISBN10: 189095179X
- Language: English
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Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle
$32.00 Add to cartEssays on media systems and contemporary art by a leading theorist of modern visual culture
Tricks of the Light brings together essays by critic and art historian Jonathan Crary, internationally known- Author: Crary, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1942130856
- Language: English
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Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature
$29.95 Read moreA deep history of storytelling as a civic agency, recalibrating literature’s political role for the twenty-first century
Why did short narrative forms like the novella, fable, and fairy tale suddenly- Author: Fuchs, Florian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1942130740
- Language: English
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Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza
$37.00 Add to cartIn this remarkable work, Gilles Deleuze, the renowned French philosopher, reflects on one of the thinkers of the past who most influenced his own sweeping reconfiguration of the tasks of philosophy. F
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: February 04 1992
- ISBN10: 0942299515
- Language: English
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Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
$45.00 Add to cartIn recent years, a little-known research group named Forensic Architecture began using novel research methods to undertake a series of investigations into human rights abuses. Today, the group provide
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Weizman, Eyal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1935408879
- Language: English
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Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150-1750
$37.00 Add to cartWonders and the Order of Nature is about the ways in which European naturalists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonder and wonders, the passion and its objects, to envision th
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Daston, Lorraine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0942299914
- Language: English
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The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning
$29.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking account of the origin and place of meaning in the earthly biosphere
What is meaning? How does it arise? Where is it found in the world? In recent years, philosophers and scientists ha- Author: Tomlinson, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1942130791
- Language: English
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The Life of Forms in Art
$24.95 Add to cartIn this beautiful meditation on the art-historical problem of style, Henri Focillon (1881-1943) describes how art forms change over time. Although he argues that the development of art is irreducible
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Focillon, Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 11 1992
- ISBN10: 0942299574
- Language: English
