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On War Carl von Clausewitz 9781912248612
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz famously wrote that 'War is the continuation of politics by other means'. But what does Clausewitz mean to a world where economic, political and cultural... -
Network Time by Spires Hadjidjianos 9789490800253
RRP: £11.00Booksplease Price: £8.96Contributions by Elvia Wilk, Graham Harman and Adrian MackenzieIn 1959, the American engineer Paul Baran was charged by the RAND Corporation with the task of designing a telecommunications network... -
Postcontinental Realism: Ontology and Epistemology for the Twenty-First Century by Ernesto Castro
Booksplease Price: £65.60Is philosophy still alive? Are there any alternatives to univocal postmodernist thought? Is there any point in asking age-old questions about the existence of reality and the possibility of... -
Parallax: The Dialectics of Mind and World by Dominik Finkelde 9781350159624
Booksplease Price: £102.21Parallax, or the change in the position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight and more precisely, the assumption that this adjustment is not only due to a change of focus, but a... -
Squid Cinema from Hell: The Emergence of Chthulumedia by William Brown
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £90.77Here be Kraken! The Squid Cinema From Hell draws upon writers like Vilem Flusser, Donna J. Haraway, Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker to offer up a critical analysis of cephalopods and other... -
Objects Untimely – Object–Oriented Philosophy and Archaeology by G Harman
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Objects generate time; time does not generate or change objects. That is the central thesis of this book by the philosopher Graham Harman and the archaeologist Christopher Witmore, who defend radical... -
Serial Drawing: Space, Time and the Art Object by Joe Graham 9781350464117
Booksplease Price: £32.34Serial Drawing offers a timely and rigorous exploration of a relatively little-researched art form. Serial drawings – artworks that are presented as singular works but are made up of distributed... -
The Neurotic Turn Charles Johns 9781910924655
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02We live in an age saturated with images. Video screens loop multimillion dollar ads while we sit in the back of taxis. Teenagers scavenge through public parks in search of Pokemon. Technology has... -
The Lure of Whitehead by Nicholas Gaskill 9780816679966
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Once largely ignored, the speculative philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead has assumed a new prominence in contemporary theory across the humanities and social sciences. Philosophers and artists,... -
Levinas Unhinged by Tom Sparrow 9781782790563
Booksplease Price: £14.61Through six heterodox essays this book extracts a materialist account of subjectivity and aesthetics from the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. More than a work of academic commentary that would leave... -
Idealism, Relativism, and Realism: New Essays on Objectivity Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide by Dominik Finkelde 9783110666823
RRP: £128.50Booksplease Price: £86.68Several debates of the last years within the research field of contemporary realism - known under titles such as "New Realism," "Continental Realism," or "Speculative Materialism" - have shown that... -
Manifesto of New Realism by Maurizio Ferraris 9781438453781
Booksplease Price: £24.35Retraces the history of postmodern philosophy and proposes solutions to overcome its impasses.Philosophical realism has taken a number of different forms, each applied to different topics and set... -
Unframing Martin Heidegger's Understanding of Technology: On the Essential Connection between Technology, Art, and History by Soren Riis 9781498567664
Booksplease Price: £102.51This book presents a new and radical interpretation of some of Martin Heidegger's most influential texts. The unfamiliar interpretations all seek to question and unframe hasty assessments of the... -
New Waves in Philosophy of Technology by Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen 9780230220003
Booksplease Price: £90.56The volume advances research in the philosophy of technology by introducing contributors who have an acute sense of how to get beyond or reframe the epistemic, ontological and normative limitations... -
Parallax: The Dialectics of Mind and World by Dominik Finkelde 9781350253377
Booksplease Price: £31.52Parallax, or the change in the position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight and more precisely, the assumption that this adjustment is not only due to a change of focus, but a... -
New Waves in Philosophy of Technology by Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen 9780230219991
Booksplease Price: £90.56The volume advances research in the philosophy of technology by introducing contributors who have an acute sense of how to get beyond or reframe the epistemic, ontological and normative limitations... -
Shipwreck Hauntography: Underwater Ruins and the Uncanny Sara Rich 9781041186076
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Drawing on a broad theoretical range from speculative realism to feminist psychoanalysis and anti-colonialism, this book represents a radical departure from traditional scholarship on maritime... -
Shipwreck Hauntography: Underwater Ruins and the Uncanny by PROF. Sara Rich
RRP: £111.00Booksplease Price: £110.40Drawing on a broad theoretical range from speculative realism to feminist psychoanalysis and anti-colonialism, this book represents a radical departure from traditional scholarship on maritime... -
Object Oriented Dialectics: Hegel, Heidegger, Harman by Charles William Johns
Booksplease Price: £20.57In this relatively short book, Johns, in the style of Derrida, looks over the absence or spectre of the signifier "dialectic" in both Martin Heidegger and Graham Harman's work, arguing that such a... -
The Primacy of Semiosis: An Ontology of Relations by Paul Bains 9781442626980
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48How do things come to stand for something other than themselves? An understanding of the ontology of relations allows for a compelling account of the action of signs. The Primacy of Semiosis is... -
Transgression and the Inexistent: A Philosophical Vocabulary by P. Burcu Yalim 9781350021433
Booksplease Price: £28.57A contemporary philosopher of Tunisian origin, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem is here published in English for the first time. His new book, Transgression and the Inexistent: A Philosophical Vocabulary, is a... -
Speculative Realism Charles William Johns 9781350410398
Booksplease Price: £95.79Throughout the history of Heideggerian thought - a thought which surely shapes our understanding of 'Being' in the 20th and 21st century (as well as the history of western metaphysics in general) -... -
Architecture of the Possible Tristan Garcia 9781509552245
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.48As a philosopher and a novelist, Tristan Garcia inhabits two worlds, metaphysics and literary fiction, like an amphibious creature moving between the land and the sea, breathing in both air and water... -
Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics by Abraham Jacob Greenstine 9781474412094
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £105.94In this volume of 18 essays, leading philosophers address the varied, volatile and novel encounters between contemporary and antique thought. They reconceive and redeploy the problems of ancient... -
The Rise of Realism Manuel DeLanda 9781509519033
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34Until quite recently, almost no philosophers trained in the continental tradition saw anything of value in realism. The situation in analytic philosophy was always different, but in continental... -
Beyond Matter - Within Space: Curatorial and Art Mediation Techniques on the Verge of Virtual Reality Livia Nolasco-Rozsas 9783775756167
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £40.54Curating the Virtual Space Exhibition spaces are physical places of knowledge production and exchange. Their spatial properties play an important role in contextualizing information. Virtual... -
The Power of Art Markus Gabriel 9781509540976
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.62We live in an era of aesthetics. Art has become both pervasive and powerful - it is displayed not only in museums and galleries but also on the walls of corporations and it is increasingly fused with... -
Latour-Stengers: An Entangled Flight Philippe Pignarre 9781509555512
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34Certain great friendships have left their mark in the annals of philosophy - and, without a doubt, the friendship of Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers is among them. Although they wrote very few... -
The Power of Art Markus Gabriel 9781509540969
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.30We live in an era of aesthetics. Art has become both pervasive and powerful - it is displayed not only in museums and galleries but also on the walls of corporations and it is increasingly fused with... -
Architecture, Film, and the In-between: Spatio-Cinematic Betwixt Vahid Vahdat 9781789389654
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £29.34The long-established dialogue between architecture and film offers an interdisciplinary platform for a critical examination of spaces of in-between. Apart from architecture informing scenography... -
Waste: A Philosophy of Things by William Viney 9781474267366
Booksplease Price: £29.88Why are people so interested in what they and others throw away? This book shows how this interest in what we discard is far from new - it is integral to how we make, build and describe our lived... -
Beauty Matters: Human Judgement and the Pursuit of New Beauties in Post-Digital Architecture Yael Reisner (Bartlett-UCL) 9781119546245
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £30.61Beauty in architecture matters again. This issue of AD posits that after 80 years of aggressive suppression of engagement with aesthetics, the temporarily dormant preoccupation with beauty is back... -
On Flat Ontologies and Law Michał Dudek 9781032577814
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39This book examines the importance of flat ontologies for law and sociolegal theory. Associated with the emergence of new materialism in the humanities and social sciences, the elaboration of flat... -
Ugly, Useless, Unstable Architectures: Phase Spaces and Generative Domains Miguel Paredes Maldonado (University of Edinburgh, UK) 9781032085203
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Ugly, Useless, Unstable Architectures traces productive intersections between architecture and the discourses of Post-Structuralism and New Materialism. It investigates how their unique 'ontological... -
The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television by Michael Hauskeller 9781349577019
RRP: £149.99Booksplease Price: £106.59What does popular culture's relationship with cyborgs, robots, vampires and zombies tell us about being human? Insightful scholarly perspectives shine a light on how film and television evince and... -
Latour and the Humanities by Rita Felski
Booksplease Price: £36.14How does the work of influential theorist Bruno Latour offer a fresh angle on the practices and purposes of the humanities?In recent years, defenses of the humanities have tended to argue along... -
Latour and the Humanities by Rita Felski 9781421439211
Booksplease Price: £86.00How does the work of influential theorist Bruno Latour offer a fresh angle on the practices and purposes of the humanities?In recent years, defenses of the humanities have tended to argue along... -
Philosophy of Marketing: The New Realist Approach by Matteo Giannasi 9781032072340
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94How can we overcome the rapidly ageing postmodernist paradigm, which has become sterile orthodoxy in marketing? This book answers this crucial question using fresh philosophical tools developed by... -
Being in Flux: A Post-Anthropocentric Ontology of the Self by Rein Raud 9781509549511
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.89Reality exists independently of human observers, but does the same apply to its structure? Realist ontologies usually assume so: according to them, the world consists of objects, these have... -
Metaphysical Experiments: Physics and the Invention of the Universe by Bjorn Ekeberg
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.30An engaging critique of the science and metaphysics behind our understanding of the universe The James Webb Space Telescope, when launched in 2021, will be the premier orbital observatory, capable...