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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene
Published: 2017-05-30
Paperback: 368 pages
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Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth.As human-induced environmental change threatens multispeci...
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)
Published: 2016-09-19
Paperback: 312 pages
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In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as...
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
Published: 2013-08-10
Paperback: 288 pages
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Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human?and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Ru...
The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers (Culture and Economic Life)
Published: 2017-11-07
Paperback: 192 pages
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Artists are everywhere, from celebrities showing at MoMA to locals hoping for a spot on a café wall. They are photographed at gallery openings in New York and Los Angeles, hustle in fast-gentrifying cities, and, sometimes, make quiet lives in Midwestern monasteries. Some command armies of...
Where Art Belongs (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series)
Published: 2011-01-21
Paperback: 176 pages
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Chris Kraus examines artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art. In Where Art Belongs, Chris Kraus examines artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation o...
Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art and Artists
Published: 2018-10-23
Hardcover: 288 pages
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An anthology of enlightening writing by an award-winning critic that engages with art in its social, political, and aesthetic contexts.Art writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity, and passions of the objects of its enquiry, argues author Marina Warner in this new ant...
You Are Here: Art After the Internet
Published: 2018-02-27
Paperback: 272 pages
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You Are Here: Art After the Internet is the first major publication to critically explore both the effects and affects that the Internet has had on contemporary artistic practices. Responding to an era that has increasingly chosen to dub itself as 'post-internet', this collective text traces a potted...
Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
Published: 2016-09-27
Paperback: 304 pages
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A philosopher makes the case for thinking of works of art as tools for investigating ourselvesIn Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë argues that our obsession with works of art has gotten in the way of understanding how art works on us. Fo...
Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion (Vintage International)
Published: 2012-03-06
Kindle Edition: 320 pages
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What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton’s inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are entirely...
Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human.
Published: 2017-08-15
Paperback: 336 pages
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You’ve heard people say “Who you are matters more than what you do”. Does the Bible really teach that? In Garden City, popular pastor and speaker John Mark Comer gives a fresh take on our calling and our purpose, with a surprisingly counter-culture take. Through his creative and c...
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