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Violence by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Zizek argues that the physical violence we see is often generated by the systemic violence that sustains our political and economic systems. With the help of eminent philosophers like Marx, Engel and... -
Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art by Erika Suderburg 9780816631599
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.54Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre's first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and... -
Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum and the Limits of Postmodernism by Scott Durham 9780804733366
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Phantom Communities reconsiders the status of the simulacrum-sometimes defined as a copy of a copy, but more rigorously defined as a copy that subverts the legitimacy and authority of its model-in... -
The Inglorious Years: The Collapse of the Industrial Order and the Rise of Digital Society by Daniel Cohen
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73How populism is fueled by the demise of the industrial order and the emergence of a new digital society ruled by algorithmsIn the revolutionary excitement of the 1960s, young people around the world... -
Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement by Caren Kaplan
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Contemporary theory is replete with metaphors of travel-displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, migration, nomadism, homelessness, and tourism to name a few. In Questions of Travel, Caren Kaplan... -
Strategy of Deception by Paul Virilio
Booksplease Price: £14.26Written with his characteristic flair, Virillo's latest book is a trenchant denunciation of the Kosovo war in which he successfully unites theory with a riveting study of the conflict. Tearing aside... -
The Truth about Neo-Marxism, Cultural Maoism, and Anarchy: Exposing Woke Insanity in an Age of Disinformation by Jerome R Corsi 9781637585214
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £23.37This book exposes the dark, evil ideology that has descended over America. The arch of the Hegelian dialectic culminates only in negation, with millions annihilated in the nightmare apocalypse of... -
Pataphysical Essays by Rene Daumal 9780984115563
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88Essays reflecting on the science of imaginary solutions, from an influential figure in pataphysical thought Pataphysics: the science of imaginary solutions, of laws governing exceptions and of the... -
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72'The problem of the twentieth-century is the problem of the color-line.' Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the... -
Media Studies: A Reader -- 3rd Edition by Sue Thornham 9780814796269
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £32.11Essays on new theories, methods, and research for the field of media studies Media Studies: A Reader introduces a full range of theoretical perspectives through which the media may be explored,... -
Art by Diarmuid Costello 9781845203207
Booksplease Price: £29.88The last few decades have witnessed an explosion in ideas and theories on art. Art itself has never been so topical, but much recent thinking remains inaccessible and difficult to use. This book... -
The Urban Revolution by Henri Lefebvre 9780816641604
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre's first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and... -
The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism, Second Edition by Richard Wolin 9780691192352
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Ever since the shocking revelations of the fascist ties of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man, postmodernism has been haunted by the specter of a compromised past. In this intellectual genealogy of the... -
The Afterlife of Property: Domestic Security and the Victorian Novel by Jeff Nunokawa 9780691114675
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35In The Afterlife of Property, Jeff Nunokawa investigates the conviction passed on by the Victorian novel that a woman's love is the only fortune a man can count on to last. Taking for his example... -
This Is Not a President: Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginary by Diane Rubenstein 9780814776025
Booksplease Price: £90.57Read The Chronicle of Higher Ed Author Interview In This Is Not a President, Diane Rubenstein looks at the postmodern presidency - from Reagan and George H. W. Bush, through the current... -
50 Philosophy Classics: Thinking, Being, Acting Seeing - Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books by Tom Butler Butler Bowdon
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality. From Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Confucius, Cicero and Heraclitus in ancient... -
This Is Not a President: Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginary by Diane Rubenstein 9780814776032
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82Read The Chronicle of Higher Ed Author Interview In This Is Not a President, Diane Rubenstein looks at the postmodern presidency - from Reagan and George H. W. Bush, through the current... -
Light and Photomedia: A New History and Future of the Photographic Image Jai McKenzie 9781780762784
Booksplease Price: £26.09Light and Photomedia proposes that, regardless of technological change, the history and future of photomedia is essentially connected to light. It is a fundamental property of photomedia, binding... -
Geographies of Violence: Killing Space, Killing Time by Marcus A. Doel
Booksplease Price: £78.63We experience violence all our lives, from that very first scream of birth. It has been industrialized and domesticated. Our culture has not become totally accustomed to violence, but accustomed... -
Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics by John Beck 9781474432245
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.79Connects Cold War material and conceptual technologies to 21st century arts, society and cultureFrom futures research, pattern recognition algorithms, nuclear waste disposal and surveillance... -
The American Roadside in Emigre Literature, Film, and Photography: 1955-1985 by Elsa Court 9783030367329
Booksplease Price: £65.96The American Roadside in Emigre Literature, Film, and Photography: 1955-1985 traces the origin of a postmodern iconography of mobile consumption equating roadside America with an authentic experience... -
Inner Experience by Georges Bataille 9781438452364
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.03Outlines a mystical theology and experience of the sacred founded on the absence of god.Originally published in 1943, Inner Experience is the single most significant work by one of the twentieth... -
Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form by David J. Alworth 9780691164496
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites--supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums--that have been... -
Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy by Jonathan Haskel 9780691236032
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.51From the acclaimed authors of Capitalism without Capital, radical ideas for restoring prosperity in today's intangible economyThe past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting... -
Excavating the Future: Archaeology and Geopolitics in Contemporary North American Science Fiction Film and Television Shawn Malley 9781786941190
Booksplease Price: £39.13An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Well-known in science fiction for tomb-raiding and mummy-wrangling, the... -
Urban Constellations: Spaces of Cultural Regeneration in Post-Industrial Britain by Zoë Thompson
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book investigates the iconic architectural cultural spaces of the contemporary cityscape as engines of regeneration. Promising much to their fading locales, these spaces locate culture in the... -
After Diana by Mandy Merck 9781859842652
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.84The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, was met by the deepest mourning of the twentieth century. Two and a half billion people worldwide watched the funeral on television, floral tributes flooded... -
The Art of Spatial Illusion: Immersive Encounters between People, Media, and Place Richard Koeck 9781138045569
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Contemporary art, entertainment and architecture cultures offer a growing amount of digitally mediated spatial experiences, situated either in the metaverse (e.g VR) or location-based in physical... -
On the Way to Theory Lawrence Grossberg 9781478030850
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70In On the Way to Theory, Lawrence Grossberg introduces the major ways of thinking that provide the backstory for contemporary Western theory. Asking readers to think about thinking, Grossberg traces... -
Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy by Jonathan Haskel 9780691211589
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57From the acclaimed authors of Capitalism without Capital, radical ideas for restoring prosperity in today's intangible economyThe past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting... -
On the Way to Theory Lawrence Grossberg 9781478026631
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.82In On the Way to Theory, Lawrence Grossberg introduces the major ways of thinking that provide the backstory for contemporary Western theory. Asking readers to think about thinking, Grossberg traces... -
Subjects and Simulations: Between Baudrillard and Lacoue-Labarthe by Anne E. O'Byrne 9780739139059
Booksplease Price: £112.43Subjects and Simulations presents essays focused on suffering and sublimity, representation and subjectivity, and the relation of truth and appearance in the twenty-first century. Inspired by the... -
Alchemy of the Word: Cabala of the Renaissance by Philip Beitchman 9780791437384
Booksplease Price: £27.66Explores the literary, philosophical, and cultural implications of Cabala during the Renaissance.Alchemy of the Word is a study of the literary, philosophical, and cultural ramifications of Cabala... -
Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction by Larry McCaffery 9780822311683
Booksplease Price: £38.72The term "cyberpunk" entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson's pathbreaking novel Neuromancer. Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, Larry McCaffery... -
Baudrillard and Theology by Rev'd Dr James Walters 9780567559722
Booksplease Price: £27.58This is a look at Baudrillard's thought from a theological perspective. Jean Baudrillard was one of the foremost intellectual figures of the late twentieth century and his work is currently reaching... -
Consumer Society in American History: A Reader by Lawrence B. Glickman 9780801484865
Booksplease Price: £27.40Consumption has often been called America's true national pastime. From the earliest European explorers trading with Native Americans to today's Internet shoppers, consumerism has driven American... -
Media Studies: A Reader by Sue Thornham
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £30.71Media Studies: A Reader introduces a full range of theoretical perspectives through which the media may be explored, analysed, critiqued, and understood. The Reader reaches back to essential... -
Does Writing Have a Future? by Vilem Flusser
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12In Does Writing Have a Future?, a remarkably perceptive work first published in German in 1987, Vilem Flusser asks what will happen to thought and communication as written communication gives way,... -
Generations Z in Europe: Inputs, Insights and Implications Professor Christian Scholz (Saarland University, Germany) 9781789734928
Booksplease Price: £83.87Generations Z in Europe: Inputs, Insights and Implications brings together differing geographic perspectives from a range of researchers to present the complex picture of contemporary reality for... -
Vanishing Point Forever by M. Rubin 9798986446356
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.07Richard C. Sarafian's Vanishing Point (20th Century Fox, 1971) is the ultimate analog car chase movie with that hard-to-pin-down something extra. Written by renowned Cuban novelist Guillermo Cabrera...