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Discognition by Steven Shaviro
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50What is consciousness? What is it like to feel pain, or to see the color red? Do robots and computers really think? For that matter, do plants and amoebas think? If we ever meet intelligent aliens,... -
Cinematic Body by Steven Shaviro
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78In "The Cinematic Body", Steven Shaviro proposes a radical new approach to film viewing. Moving between Jerry Lewis and Andy Warhol, between Fassbinder's gay sex icons and George Romero's... -
Post Cinematic Affect by Steven Shaviro 9781846944314
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Post-Cinematic Affect is about what it feels like to live in the affluent West in the early 21st century. Specifically, it explores the structure of feeling that is emerging today in tandem with new... -
Digital Music Videos by Steven Shaviro 9780813579535
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.55Music videos today sample and rework a century's worth of movies and other pop culture artifacts to offer a plethora of visions and sounds that we have never encountered before. As these videos... -
No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism by Steven Shaviro
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £8.12Accelerationism is the bastard offspring of a furtive liaison between Marxism and science fiction. Its basic premise is that the only way out is the way through: to get beyond capitalism, we need to... -
The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism by Steven Shaviro
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12From the rediscovery of Alfred North Whitehead's work to the rise of new materialist thought, including object-oriented ontology, there has been a rapid turn toward speculation in philosophy as a way... -
The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism by Steven Shaviro 9780816689248
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.90From the rediscovery of Alfred North Whitehead's work to the rise of new materialist thought, including object-oriented ontology, there has been a rapid turn toward speculation in philosophy as a way... -
Fluid Futures: Science Fiction and Potentiality Steven Shaviro 9781915672469
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56How does science fiction imagine forms of life that are plausible, and yet different from anything that we already know? Fluid Futures is about how science fiction imagines an open future. Science... -
Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics by Steven Shaviro 9780262517973
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.66A Deleuzian reading of Whitehead and a Whiteheadian reading of Deleuze open the possibility of a critical aesthetics of contemporary culture. In Without Criteria, Steven Shaviro proposes and explores... -
Connected: Or What It Means To Live In The Network Society by Steven Shaviro 9780816643639
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47In the twenty-first century, a network society is emerging. Fragmented, visually saturated, characterized by rapid technological change and constant social upheavals, it is dizzying, excessive, and... -
Neptune Frost: Movies Minute by Minute Professor or Dr. Steven Shaviro 9798765161906
Booksplease Price: £21.42A minute-by-minute analysis of Anisia Uzeyman's and Saul Williams' film, Neptune Frost (2021).This book traces the complex structure of the film, working through its rich tapestry of images and... -
Neptune Frost: Movies Minute by Minute Professor or Dr. Steven Shaviro 9798765161913
Booksplease Price: £61.05A minute-by-minute analysis of Anisia Uzeyman's and Saul Williams' film, Neptune Frost (2021).This book traces the complex structure of the film, working through its rich tapestry of images and... -
The Rhythm Image: Music Videos and New Audiovisual Forms by Professor or Dr. Steven Shaviro
Booksplease Price: £27.85Music videos play a critical role in our age of ubiquitous streaming digital media. They project the personas and visions of musical artists; they stand at the cutting edge of developments in popular... -
The Rhythm Image: Music Videos and New Audiovisual Forms by Professor or Dr. Steven Shaviro 9781501388552
Booksplease Price: £100.93Music videos play a critical role in our age of ubiquitous streaming digital media. They project the personas and visions of musical artists; they stand at the cutting edge of developments in popular... -
Sentient Relics: Museums and Cinematic Affect by Janice E. Baker 9780367193065
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Sentient Relics explores museums through cinema and challenges the dominant focus of museum theory as an inclusion-exclusion debate. The author responds to the Enlightenment, 'rational' museum of... -
Science Fiction Dr Mark Bould 9780415458115
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £27.79Science Fiction explores the genre from 1895 to the present day, drawing on examples from over forty countries. It raises questions about the relationship between science fiction, science and... -
Designing Social Equality: Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Perception of Democracy Mark Foster Gage 9780815369752
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69In Designing Social Equality, Mark Foster Gage proposes a dramatic realignment between aesthetic thought, politics, social equality, and the design of our physical world. By reconsidering historic... -
21st-Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation by Wheeler Winston Dixon 9780813551258
Booksplease Price: £36.60They are shot on high-definition digital cameras-with computer-generated effects added in postproduction-and transmitted to theaters, websites, and video-on-demand networks worldwide. They are viewed... -
21st-Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation by Wheeler Winston Dixon
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £103.97They are shot on high-definition digital cameras-with computer-generated effects added in postproduction-and transmitted to theaters, websites, and video-on-demand networks worldwide. They are viewed... -
The Mind of Whitehead: Adventure in Ideas by Roland Faber 9780227179970
Booksplease Price: £49.18The Mind of Whitehead offers the curious reader a creative exploration of a crucial twentieth-century philosopher, speaking to global concerns from a position of possibility and complexity. For... -
Phallos by Samuel R. Delany 9780819573551
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.62Phallos is a 2004 novel by the acclaimed novelist and critic Samuel R. Delany. Taking the form of a gay pornographic novella, with the explicit sex omitted, Phallos is set during the reign of the... -
Atopias: Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism by Frederic Neyrat
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.89This book offers a manifesto for a radical existentialism aiming to regenerate the place of the outside that contemporary theory underestimates. Neyrat calls this outside "atopia": not utopia, a... -
Postmodernism: The Key Figures Hans Bertens (Utrecht University) 9780631217978
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £38.81Featuring summaries of postmodernism's greatest literary, cultural, and political champions written by a diverse group of scholars, Postmodernism: The Key Figures captures the dominance of a... -
After the Human: Culture, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century by Sherryl Vint
Booksplease Price: £28.58After the Human provides a comprehensive overview of how a range of philosophical, ethical, and political ideas under the framework of posthumanism have transformed humanities scholarship today... -
The OA by David Sweeney 9781800859425
Booksplease Price: £94.85Created by the team of Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, and starring Marling in the role of Prairie Johnston, the Netflix Originals series The OA (2016-19) is a generically ambiguous, and ambitious,... -
After the Human: Culture, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century by Sherryl Vint 9781108836661
Booksplease Price: £98.44After the Human provides a comprehensive overview of how a range of philosophical, ethical, and political ideas under the framework of posthumanism have transformed humanities scholarship today... -
The OA by David Sweeney
Booksplease Price: £25.03Created by the team of Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, and starring Marling in the role of Prairie Johnston, the Netflix Originals series The OA (2016-19) is a generically ambiguous, and ambitious,... -
Contemporary Fiction and the Ethics of Modern Culture by Jeffrey Karnicky 9781349537655
Booksplease Price: £46.81This book argues for the ethical relevancy of contemporary fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Through reading novels by such writers as David Foster Wallace, Richard Powers, and... -
The Force of the Virtual: Deleuze, Science, and Philosophy by Peter Gaffney 9780816665983
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Gilles Deleuze once claimed that "modern science has not found its metaphysics, the metaphysics it needs." The Force of the Virtual responds to this need by investigating the consequences of the... -
Semiotic Flesh: Information and the Human Body by Phillip Thurtle 9780295982007
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £18.78For much of the 20th century, an apparently solid conceptual wall allowed us to separate information and bodies. Information is that which exists between elements; bodies are the elements themselves... -
Propositions in the Making: Experiments in a Whiteheadian Laboratory by Roland Faber 9781793612564
Booksplease Price: £91.39How do we make ourselves a Whiteheadian proposition? This question exposes the multivalent connections between postmodern thought and Whitehead's philosophy, with particular attention to his... -
Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick and Ruiz by DR. ENG Laleen Jayamanne
Booksplease Price: £110.39Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick and Ruiz explores the poetic thinking of these master filmmakers. It examines theoretical ideas, including Maori... -
Film and Television After 9/11 by Wheeler Winston Dixon 9780809325566
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82In Film and Television after 9/11, twelve distinguished scholars and critics discuss the production, reception, and distribution of Hollywood and foreign films after the terrorist attacks of... -
Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future Roy Christopher 9781912248346
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In Dead Precedents, Roy Christopher traces the story of how hip-hop invented the twenty-first century. Emerging alongside cyberpunk in the 1980s, the hallmarks of hip-hop - allusion, self-reference,... -
Abject Pleasures in the Cinematic: The Beautiful, Sexual Arousal, and Laughter Aaron Kerner 9781399501101
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £86.61Examines the cinematic strategies that elicit visceral pleasure in the face of content that is crass, politically problematic, or unethical Discusses the ways in which the cinematic elicits... -
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century by Murray Pomerance 9780791448861
Booksplease Price: £29.05Examines gender roles in contemporary foreign and Hollywood films amid changing social, political, cultural, and economic conditions.Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls examines the bizarre and... -
Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life by Jeffrey T. Nealon
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.68In our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as... -
Whitehead and Continental Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century: Dislocations by Jeremy D. Fackenthal 9781498595124
Booksplease Price: £35.99This book examines how the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, a speculative philosopher from the first half of the twentieth century, converses and entangles itself with continental philosophers... -
Declarations of Dependence: Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care by Scott Ferguson 9781496201928
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Declarations of Dependence rethinks the historical relationship between money and aesthetics in an effort to make critical theory newly answerable to politics. Scott Ferguson regrounds critical... -
The Shape of Motion: Cinema and the Aesthetics of Movement by Jordan Schonig 9780190093891
Booksplease Price: £34.46In The Shape of Motion: Cinema and the Aesthetics of Movement, author Jordan Schonig provides a new way of theorizing cinematic motion by examining cinema's "motion forms": structures, patterns, or...