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Biomedia by Eugene Thacker 9780816643530
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $33.62The 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... -
Cosmic Pessimism by Eugene Thacker 9781937561475
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07"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: $232.52Life 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... -
After Life Eugene Thacker 9780226793726
Booksplease Price: $68.48Life 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: $33.13Booksplease Price: $26.58The 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... -
Horror of Philosophy: Vols. 1-3 Eugene Thacker 9781803415901
RRP: $66.28Booksplease Price: $46.45Zer0 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: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.85"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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Could 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Our 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: $89.68Booksplease Price: $84.01This 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: $38.98Booksplease Price: $28.18Iconic 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... -
A City of Heretics: Francois Laruelle's Non-Philosophy and its variants by Anthony Paul Smith 9780367234836
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $85.68Francois Laruelle has been developing his project of non-philosophy since the 1970s. Throughout this time he has aimed at nothing less than the discovery and development of a new form of thinking... -
The Exploit: A Theory of Networks by Alexander R. Galloway
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.49"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: $46.55Always 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: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.74Always 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: $66.28Booksplease Price: $58.95In 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: $214.50Booksplease Price: $177.00Here 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: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48Edited 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... -
Sad Planets by Dominic Pettman 9781509562350
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $90.62"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: $138.45Booksplease Price: $112.83Why 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... -
Animal Revolution by Ron Broglio
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $27.71Why 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: $29.23Booksplease Price: $23.71"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... -
Ghosting: On Disappearance Dominic Pettman 9781509569946
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $63.73Abandonment 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... -
Ghosting: On Disappearance Dominic Pettman 9781509569953
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.15Abandonment 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 9781405183079
Booksplease Price: $83.73Moving 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... -
The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology by Pramod K. Nayar 9781405183086
RRP: $165.65Booksplease Price: $153.48Moving 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: $56.94Booksplease Price: $52.94Post-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... -
Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age by Dominic Pettman 9780823226689
RRP: $140.40Booksplease Price: $123.88Can 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 the... -
Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age by Dominic Pettman 9780823226696
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $54.37Can 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... -
Telling the Bees: An Interspecies Monologue Dominic Pettman 9781531508487
RRP: $140.40Booksplease Price: $123.88In a bid to wean himself off Facebook and Twitter, media scholar and cultural theorist Dominic Pettman decided to revive an ancient custom. He decided to tell the local bees of his thoughts,... -
Telling the Bees: An Interspecies Monologue Dominic Pettman 9781531508494
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $35.12In a bid to wean himself off Facebook and Twitter, media scholar and cultural theorist Dominic Pettman decided to revive an ancient custom. He decided to tell the local bees of his thoughts,... -
Inhuman Materiality in Gothic Media Aspasia Stephanou 9781032178127
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37This book examines the manifestations of materiality across different gothic media to show the inhuman at the heart of literature, film and contemporary media, outlining a philosophy of horror that... -
Seeking Attention: 30 Ways of Being Present Dominic Pettman 9781915672674
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.31A 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: $68.15Booksplease Price: $64.14Bioart -- 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: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.57Since the early nineteenth century, when entomologists first popularized the unique biological and behavioral characteristics of insects, technological innovators and theorists have proposed insects... -
Theory After 'Theory' by Derek Attridge 9780415484190
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40This volume argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions of today. Offering an overview of... -
Vampyroteuthis Infernalis: A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste by Vilem Flusser
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.48How 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: $44.83Booksplease Price: $40.79Zombies 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: $187.20Booksplease Price: $160.52Zombies 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: $60.45Booksplease Price: $52.47Under 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...