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Grammatology of Images: A History of the A-Visible by Sigrid Weigel
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.54Grammatology of Images radically alters how we approach images. Instead of asking for the history, power, or essence of images, Sigrid Weigel addresses imaging as such. The book considers how... -
Theories of Memory: A Reader by Michael Rossington
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £30.23Theories of Memory provides a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly expanding field of memory studies. It is a resource through which students will be able both to broaden their knowledge of... -
The Method of Hope: Anthropology, Philosophy, and Fijian Knowledge by Hirokazu Miyazaki
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12The Method of Hope examines the relationship between hope and knowledge by investigating how hope is produced in various forms of knowledge-Fijian, philosophical, anthropological. The book discusses... -
Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas by Adam Kirsch 9780393243468
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.80Adam Kirsch has been described as "elegant and astute-[a] critic of the very first order" (The New York Times). In Rocket and Lightship he examines the work and life of writers past and present, from... -
Aftermaths: Exile, Migration, and Diaspora Reconsidered by Marcus Bullock 9780813544069
Booksplease Price: £33.42Aftermaths is a collection of essays offering compelling new ideas on exile, migration, and diaspora that have emerged in the global age. The ten contributors-well-established scholars and promising... -
Spaces of Danger: Culture and Power in the Everyday by Heather Merrill 9780820348766
RRP: £132.95Booksplease Price: £87.43These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred's pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of... -
Žižek's The Sublime Object of Ideology: A Reader’s Guide Rafael Winkler 9781350425651
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.46First published in 1989, The Sublime Object of Ideology was Zizek's breakthrough work, and is still regarded by many as his masterpiece. It was an iconoclastic reinvention of ideology critique that... -
Adaptation Considered as a Collaborative Art: Process and Practice by Bernadette Cronin 9783030251635
Booksplease Price: £116.38This book examines the processes of adaptation across a number of intriguing case studies and media. Turning its attention from the 'what' to the 'how' of adaptation, it serves to re-situate the... -
'Dear Friend, You Must Change Your Life': The Letters of Great Thinkers by Ada Bronowski 9781350089198
Booksplease Price: £26.89In Dear Friend, you must change your life, we see some of the most fascinating thinkers in history at their most private and profound, reaching out to a friend, sharing, testing, confirming... -
Seeing Making: Room for Thought by Susan Buck-Morss 9781941753538
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £14.88Renowned philosopher Susan Buck-Morss collaborates with Boot Boyz Biz's Kevin McCaughey and Inventory Press' Adam Michaels on this experimental image-text update of McLuhan and Benjamin Renowned... -
Mapping Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Digital Age by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht 9780804744355
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.40Since its publication in 1936, Walter Benjamin's "Artwork" essay has become a canonical text about the status and place of the fine arts in modern mass culture. Benjamin was especially concerned with... -
Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood by Adriana Cavarero 9780415200585
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51Relating Narratives is a major new work by the philosopher and feminist thinker Adriana Cavarero. First published in Italian to widespread acclaim, Relating Narratives is a fascinating and... -
Theories of Memory: A Reader by Michael Rossington 9780801887291
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £36.12Theories of Memory provides a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly expanding field of memory studies. It is a resource through which students of literature will be able both to broaden their... -
The Photograph: A Strange, Confined Space by Mary Price 9780804729642
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36This richly evocative study of photography has two major emphases, that the language of description (be it title, caption, or text) is deeply implicated in how a viewer looks at photographs, and that... -
The Nature of Revolution: Art and Politics under the Khmer Rouge by James A. Tyner 9780820364919
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £34.74The Nature of Revolution provides the first account of art and politics under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. James A. Tyner repositions Khmer Rouge artworks within their proper political... -
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Mapping Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Digital Age by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht 9780804744355 [USED COPY]
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £21.96Since its publication in 1936, Walter Benjamin's "Artwork" essay has become a canonical text about the status and place of the fine arts in modern mass culture. Benjamin was especially concerned with... -
Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century by Lucia Ruprecht 9780190659370
Booksplease Price: £92.79Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of... -
Reading Kenneth Frampton: A Commentary on 'Modern Architecture', 1980 by Gevork Hartoonian 9781839986376
Booksplease Price: £25.71This book focuses on the first edition of Kenneth Frampton's Modern Architecture: A Critical History, published in 1980. It searches for clues and positions that will provide the reader with an... -
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Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America by William Anthony Nericcio 9780292714571
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48A rogues' gallery of Mexican bandits, bombshells, lotharios, and thieves saturates American popular culture. Remember Speedy Gonzalez? "Mexican Spitfire" Lupe Velez? The Frito Bandito? Familiar and... -
Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century by Lucia Ruprecht 9780190659387
RRP: £45.49Booksplease Price: £40.49Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of... -
To Walk Alone in the Crowd by Antonio Munoz Molina
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.84Winner of the 2020 Prix Medicis etranger I want to live on foot, by hand, by pencil, at ease, responsive to whatever I meet, loose like the air that moves around my body as I walk or like a... -
Can One Live after Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader by Theodor Adorno
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91This is a comprehensive collection of readings from the work of Theodor Adorno, one of the most influential German thinkers of the twentieth century. What took place in Auschwitz revokes what... -
Blue Land and City Noise: An Expressionist Stroll through Art and Literature by Cathrin Klingsohr-Leroy
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £17.88Colourful, emotional, impulsive and modern - these are the qualities which characterise our ideas of German Expressionist painting. It is hard to believe that the works caused a scandal when they... -
Saving the Tremors of Past Lives: A Cross-Generational Holocaust Memoir by Regina Grol 9781618112569
RRP: £77.99Booksplease Price: £54.77The Jewish community of the Polish border town of Brzesc (Brisk in Yiddish), which had numbered almost 30,000 people, was wiped out during the Holocaust, with only about 10 of its members surviving... -
Acts of Narrative by Carol Jacobs 9780804746519
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04This outstanding collection brings together essays that reflect on the nature of narrative, literary criticism, and history from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, ranging from... -
The Whole Machinery: The Rural Modern in Cultures of the U.S. South, 1890-1946 by Benjamin S. Child 9780820356013
RRP: £68.95Booksplease Price: £60.42A familiar story holds that modernization radiates outward from metropolitan origins. Expanding on Walter Benjamin's notion of die Moderne, The Whole Machinery explores representations of people and... -
The City in the Distance Jean-Luc Nancy 9781531508968
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £63.53Exploring the ever-changing philosophy of city life with Jean-Luc Nancy In The City in the Distance, Jean-Luc Nancy embarks on nothing less than a philosophy of the city. Drawing on his widely... -
Fleurs du Mal by Antoine d'Agata 9791092727319
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.53For Charles Baudelaire, the photographic medium is not an art but a technical means of representing reality. As a counterpoint to Baudelaire, Antoine d'Agata reworks his own photographs through... -
The Ruins of Allegory: Paradise Lost and the Metamorphosis of Epic Convention by Catherine Gimelli Martin 9780822319894
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91In this reexamination of the allegorical dimensions of Paradise Lost, Catherine Martin presents Milton’s poem as a prophecy foretelling the end of one culture and its replacement by another. She... -
Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future John Lechte 9781138813892
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.49With the emerging dominance of digital technology, the time is ripe to reconsider the nature of the image. Some say that there is no longer a phenomenal image, only disembodied information (0-1)... -
Ingres Then, and Now by Adrian Rifkin
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Ingres Then, and Now is an innovative study of one of the best-known French artists of the nineteenth century, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. Adrian Rifkin re-evaluates Ingres' work in the context of... -
Theopolitical Figures: Scripture, Prophecy, Oath, Charisma, Hospitality by Montserrat Herrero 9781399522915
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £86.19Examines the meaning of five theopolitical figures scripture, prophecy, oath, charisma and hospitality in contemporary philosophical-political discourse Re-inscribes contemporary political... -
The Face on the Screen: Questions of Recognition by Therese Davis 9781841500843
Booksplease Price: £31.20There was a time in screen culture when the facial close-up was a spectacular and mysterious image...The constant bombardment of the super-enlarged, computer-enhanced faces of advertising, the... -
Ideographic Modernism: China, Writing, Media by Christopher Bush 9780195393828
Booksplease Price: £28.01The ideograph is conventionally understood as a script that is ancient and Chinese; it is neither. The 'ideograph' is a modern Western invention, one contemporaneous with, and related to, such modern... -
Fear and Trembling: A New Translation by Soren Kierkegaard 9781631498312
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.87First published in 1843 under the pseudonym "Johannes de silentio" (John of Silence), Soren Kierkegaard's richly resonant Fear and Trembling has for generations stood as a pivotal text in the history... -
Appendix Project Kate Zambreno 9781913513689
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.96Inspired by the lectures of Roland Barthes, Anne Carson, and Jorge Luis Borges, Kate Zambreno's Appendix Project collects eleven talks and essays written in the course of the year following the... -
The Poetry of Dante's Paradiso: Lives Almost Divine, Spirits that Matter by Jeremy Tambling 9783030656270
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book argues that Paradiso - Dante's vision of Heaven - is not simply affirmative. It posits that Paradiso compensates for disappointment rather than fulfils hopes, and where it moves into joy... -
History and Revolution: Refuting Revisionism by Mike Haynes
Booksplease Price: £22.08In History and Revolution, a group of respected historians confronts the conservative, revisionist trends in historical enquiry that have been dominant in the last twenty years. Ranging from an... -
Cinematic Flashes: Cinephilia and Classical Hollywood by Rashna Wadia Richards
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Cinematic Flashes challenges popular notions of a uniform Hollywood style by disclosing uncanny networks of incongruities, coincidences, and contingencies at the margins of the cinematic frame. In an... -
The Poems by Robert Walser
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.71The first complete publication of Robert Walser's poems translated into English. Admired by the likes of Kafka, Musil, and Walter Benjamin and acclaimed "unforgettable, heart-rending" by J. M...