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There Was No Revolution: Reflections on Property, Power and the Servile Condition Catherine Malabou 9781509567577
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34In her new book, Catherine Malabou argues that the French Revolution existed in name only, not in reality - privileges disappeared only on the surface and the old forms of domination persisted in... -
Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction by Catherine Malabou 9780231145244
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £40.43Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Morphing Intelligence: From IQ Measurement to Artificial Brains by Catherine Malabou 9780231187367
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Pleasure Erased: The Clitoris Unthought Catherine Malabou (University of Paris-X Nanterre) 9781509549931
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.99The clitoris was absent in anatomy books, in paintings and sculptures, absent in spirit and even body; it has long been the organ of erased pleasure. We assume that this oversight has been repaired... -
Life in the Posthuman Condition: Critical Responses to the Anthropocene by Professor Emeritus of Drama S E Wilmer 9781399505284
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.41This edited volume reconsiders the notion of life and conceptualizes those forms of life which have been excluded from modern philosophy, such as post-Anthropocene life, the life of non-human animals... -
The Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity Catherine Malabou (University of Paris-X Nanterre) 9780745652610
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.49In the usual order of things, lives run their course and eventually one becomes who one is. Bodily and psychic transformations do nothing but reinforce the permanence of identity. But as a result of... -
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Winner, 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize, given by the National Women's Studies Association Winner, 2021 Harry Levin Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature Association Winner, 2021... -
The End of Phenomenology: Metaphysics and the New Realism by Tom Sparrow 9780748684830
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.41In the 20th century, phenomenology promised a method that would get philosophy "back to the things themselves". But phenomenology has always been haunted by the spectre of an anthropocentric... -
Narratives of Debt by Peter Szendy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65As the problem of debt grows more and more urgent in light of the central role it plays in neoliberal capitalism, scholars have analyzed debt using numerous approaches: historical analysis, legal... -
Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience by Adrian Johnston 9780231158305
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £97.55Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou defy theoretical humanities' deeply-entrenched resistance to engagements with the life sciences. Rather than treat biology and its branches as hopelessly... -
Climate Change and the Production of Knowledge by Ian Baucom 9780822368625
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41Though the causes and effects of climate change pervade our everyday lives-the air we breathe, the food we eat, the objects we use-the way the discourse of climate change influences how we make... -
Paper Machine by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68This book questions the book itself, archivization, machines for writing, and the mechanicity inherent in language, the media, and intellectuals. Derrida questions what takes place between the paper... -
Deconstruction Machines: Writing in the Age of Cyberwar by Justin Joque 9781517902520
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.15A bold new theory of cyberwar argues that militarized hacking is best understood as a form of deconstruction From shadowy attempts to steal state secrets to the explosive destruction of Iranian... -
Rogues: Two Essays on Reason by Jacques Derrida 9780804749510
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Rogues, published in France under the title Voyous, comprises two major lectures that Derrida delivered in 2002 investigating the foundations of the sovereignty of the nation-state. The term "Etat... -
Power of Gentleness: Meditations on the Risk of Living by Anne Dufourmantelle
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.68Gentleness is an enigma. Taken up in a double movement of welcoming and giving, it appears on the threshold of passages signed off by birth and death. Because it has its degrees of intensity, because... -
Disavowal by Alenka Zupančič 9781509561193
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.30This book argues that the psychoanalytic concept of disavowal best renders the structure underlying our contemporary social response to traumatic and disturbing events, from climate change to... -
On Touching-Jean-Luc Nancy by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66Using the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy as an anchoring point, Jacques Derrida in this book conducts a profound review of the philosophy of the sense of touch, from Plato and Aristotle to Jean-Luc... -
The Incident at Antioch / L'Incident d'Antioche: A Tragedy in Three Acts / Tragedie en trois actes by Alain Badiou 9780231157759
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.09The Incident at Antioch is a key play marking Alain Badiou's transition from classical Marxism to a "politics of subtraction" far removed from party and state. Written with striking eloquence and... -
Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism by Justin Joque
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32Our finances, politics, media, opportunities, information, shopping and knowledge production are mediated through algorithms and their statistical approaches to knowledge; increasingly, these methods... -
H. C. for Life, That Is to Say... by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68H. C. for Life, That Is to Say . . . is Derrida's literary critical recollection of his lifelong friendship with Helene Cixous. The main figure that informs Derrida's reading here is that of "taking... -
The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics by Nathan Brown
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £32.82Poetry, or poiesis, has long been understood as a practice of making. But how are experiments in the making of poetic forms related to formal making in science and engineering? The Limits of... -
Of Stigmatology: Punctuation as Experience by Peter Szendy
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.78What if our existence is a product of its interruptions? What if the words that structure our lives are themselves governed by the periods and commas that bring them to a close, or our images by the... -
Kafka: In Light of the Accident by Howard Caygill
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.97By challenging many of the assumptions, misguided presuppositions and even legends that have surrounded the legacy and reception of Franz Kafka's work during the 20th century, Howard Caygill provides...