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Biomedia by Eugene Thacker 9780816643530
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.24The merging of computer science and molecular biology, genetic codes and computer codesAs biotechnology defines the new millennium, genetic codes and computer codes increasingly merge-life understood... -
After Life Eugene Thacker 9780226793726
Booksplease Price: $45.30Life is one of our most basic concepts, yet when examined directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive, encompassing both the broadest and the most specific phenomena. We can see this... -
Cosmic Pessimism by Eugene Thacker 9781937561475
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23"We're doomed." So begins the work of the philosopher whose unabashed and aphoristic indictments of the human condition have been cropping up recently in popular culture. Today we find ourselves in... -
After Life by Eugene Thacker 9780226793719
Booksplease Price: $153.82Life is one of our most basic concepts, yet when examined directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive, encompassing both the broadest and the most specific phenomena. We can see this... -
Infinite Resignation: On Pessimism Eugene Thacker 9781912248193
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.58The author of the contemporary classic, In the Dust of This Planet, is back with another raw and unsettling look at the human condition. Comprised of aphorisms, fragments, and observations both... -
Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium by Eugene Thacker 9780615600468
RRP: $24.21Booksplease Price: $22.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Horror of Philosophy: Vols. 1-3 Eugene Thacker 9781803415901
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $30.73Zer0 Books presents a new, omnibus edition of a cult classic: all three volumes of Eugene Thacker s Horror of Philosophy trilogy, revised and expanded by the author. Across the three volumes of the... -
In the Dust of This Planet - Horror of Philosophy vol. 1 Eugene Thacker 9781846946769
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15"Thacker's discourse on the intersection of horror and philosophy is utterly original and utterly captivating..." Thomas Ligotti, author of The Conspiracy Against the Human Race The world is... -
Starry Speculative Corpse - Horror of Philosophy vol. 2 Eugene Thacker 9781782798910
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Could it be that the more we know about the world, the less we understand it? Could it be that, while everything has been explained, nothing has meaning? Extending the ideas presented in his book In... -
Tentacles Longer Than Night - Horror of Philosophy vol. 3 Eugene Thacker 9781782798897
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Our contemporary horror stories are written in a world where there seems little faith, lost hope, and no salvation. All that remains is the fragmentary and occasionally lyrical testimony of the human... -
Design for the Unthinkable World: Strange Ecology and Unwelcome Change Craig Bremner 9781032441443
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57This edited book contests that if design's raison d'etre is to make things better, then the object of design has always been, remains and can only be a changed world and our relationship to it - the... -
Ultrablack of Music: Volume 2 Palais Sinclaire 9781803418551
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.64Iconic Frankfurt techno and experimental label -Mille Plateaux- returns with a new anthology of texts written by a collective of voices who assembled around the resurrection of the label, taking... -
The Exploit: A Theory of Networks by Alexander R. Galloway
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.86"The Exploit is that rare thing: a book with a clear grasp of how networks operate that also understands the political implications of this emerging form of power. It cuts through the nonsense about... -
Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation by Alexander R. Galloway
Booksplease Price: $30.79Always connect - that is the imperative of today's media. But what about those moments when media cease to function properly, when messages go beyond the sender and receiver to become excluded from... -
Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation by Alexander R. Galloway 9780226925219
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.72Always connect - that is the imperative of today's media. But what about those moments when media cease to function properly, when messages go beyond the sender and receiver to become excluded from... -
Deleuze and New Technology by David Savat
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $39.00In a world where our lives are increasingly mediated by technologies it is surprising that more attention is not paid to the work of Gilles Deleuze. This is especially strange given Deleuze's often... -
Squid Cinema from Hell: The Emergence of Chthulumedia by William Brown
RRP: $141.90Booksplease Price: $117.09Here 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... -
On the Suffering of the World Arthur Schopenhauer 9781913462031
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Edited and with an introduction by Eugene Thacker, On the Suffering of the World comprises a core selection of Schopenhauer's later writings, gathered together for the first time in print. These... -
Animal Revolution by Ron Broglio
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23Why our failure to consider the power of animals is to our deep detriment Animals are staging a revolution-they're just not telling us. From radioactive boar invading towns to jellyfish disarming... -
Sad Planets by Dominic Pettman 9781509562367
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.69"Everything is sad," wrote the Ancient poets. But is this sadness merely a human experience, projected onto the world, or is there a gloom attributable to the world itself? Could the universe be... -
Animal Revolution by Ron Broglio 9781517912437
RRP: $91.59Booksplease Price: $74.64Why our failure to consider the power of animals is to our deep detriment Animals are staging a revolution-they're just not telling us. From radioactive boar invading towns to jellyfish disarming... -
Ghosting: On Disappearance Dominic Pettman 9781509569946
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $42.16Abandonment is as old as time, but ghosting is a modern twist on this ancient experience. It translates this age-old phenomenon into our modern world of screens, delete buttons and blocking options... -
The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology by Pramod K. Nayar 9781405183086
RRP: $109.59Booksplease Price: $101.54Moving beyond traditional cyberculture studies paradigms in several key ways, this comprehensive collection marks the increasing convergence of cyberculture with other forms of media, and with all... -
Post-Global Network and Everyday Life by Marina Levina 9781433106989
RRP: $37.67Booksplease Price: $35.02Post-Global Network and Everyday Life explores everyday life in the new world order of global network. It argues that network has come into its own as a state of mind and a way of life - in sum, a... -
The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology by Pramod K. Nayar 9781405183079
Booksplease Price: $55.39Moving beyond traditional cyberculture studies paradigms in several key ways, this comprehensive collection marks the increasing convergence of cyberculture with other forms of media, and with all... -
Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age by Dominic Pettman 9780823226696
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $35.97Can love really be considered another form of technology? Dominic Pettman says it can-although not before carefully redefining technology as a cultural challenge to what we mean by the "human" in... -
Seeking Attention: 30 Ways of Being Present Dominic Pettman 9781915672674
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.47A book depicting the intimate complicity between attention and identity. . . "You are what you pay attention to."Simone Weil famously stated: "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."... -
Bioart and the Vitality of Media by Robert Edward Mitchell
RRP: $45.09Booksplease Price: $42.43Bioart -- art that uses either living materials (such as bacteria or transgenic organisms) or more traditional materials to comment on, or even transform, biotechnological practice -- now receives... -
Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology by Jussi Parikka
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53Since the early nineteenth century, when entomologists first popularized the unique biological and behavioral characteristics of insects, technological innovators and theorists have proposed insects... -
Vampyroteuthis Infernalis: A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste by Vilem Flusser
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.50How far apart are humans from animals-even the "vampire squid from hell"? Playing the scientist/philosopher/provocateur, Vilem Flusser uses this question as a springboard to dive into a literal and a... -
Zombie Theory: A Reader by Sarah Juliet Lauro
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.99Zombies first shuffled across movie screens in 1932 in the low-budget Hollywood film White Zombie and were reimagined as undead flesh-eaters in George A. Romero's The Night of the Living Dead almost... -
Zombie Theory: A Reader by Sarah Juliet Lauro 9781517900908
RRP: $123.84Booksplease Price: $106.19Zombies first shuffled across movie screens in 1932 in the low-budget Hollywood film White Zombie and were reimagined as undead flesh-eaters in George A. Romero's The Night of the Living Dead almost... -
Beyond Biopolitics: Essays on the Governance of Life and Death by Patricia Ticineto Clough
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.71Under the auspices of neoliberalism, technical systems of compliance and efficiency have come to underwrite the relations among the state, the economy, and a biopolitics of war, terror, and... -
Summa Technologiae by Stanis aw Lem 9780816675777
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.63The Polish writer Stanislaw Lem is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of the 1961 science fiction novel Solaris, adapted into a meditative film by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and... -
The Age of Lovecraft by Carl H. Sederholm
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52Co-winner, Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the American author of "weird tales" who died in 1937 impoverished and... -
Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism by Catherine Waldby
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.95As new medical technologies are developed, more and more human tissues-such as skin, bones, heart valves, embryos, and stem cell lines-are stored and distributed for therapeutic and research purposes...