4S: Philosophy and Theory
Web sale for those interested in science and technology studies and/or attendees of the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
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BROWSE BOOKS:
PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY // ART AND MEDIA // ENVIRONMENT
POLITICS AND ACTIVISM // ANIMALS AND SOCIETY // ANTHROPOLOGY
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY // DIGITAL CULTURE // ETHNOGRAPHY
RACE // GENDER AND SEXUALITY // GEOGRAPHY
LITERATURE // LITERARY CRITICISM // DISABILITY STUDIES
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The Architecture of Disability Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access David Gissen 2022 Fall
- A radical critique of architecture that places disability at the heart of the built environment
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Endless Intervals Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 Jeffrey West Kirkwood 2022 Fall
- Revealing cinema’s place in the coevolution of media technology and the human
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Plant Life The Entangled Politics of Afforestation Rosetta S. Elkin 2022 Spring
- How afforestation reveals the often-concealed politics between humans and plants
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Pipeline Populism Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century Kai Bosworth 2022 Spring
- How contemporary environmental struggles and resistance to pipeline development became populist struggles
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The Cyclist and His Shadow A Memoir Olivier Haralambon 2022 Spring
- A philosopher and former racing cyclist examines how competitive riders lose their sense of self as they pursue perfect motion and mastery over pain
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What If? Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of Images Vilém Flusser 2022 Spring
- An imagination of possibilities, of miscalculations, of futures off-kilter
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Does the Earth Care? Indifference, Providence, and Provisional Ecology Mick Smith and Jason Young 2022 Fall
- Rethinking our relationship with Earth in a time of environmental emergency
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A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal Andrew Culp 2022 Spring
- A field guide to a nonfascist life at the end of the world as we know it
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Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity Maurice Hamington and Michael Flower, Editors 2021 Fall
- How care can resist the stifling force of the neoliberal paradigm
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Scale Theory A Nondisciplinary Inquiry Joshua DiCaglio 2021 Fall
- A pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities
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Calamity Theory Three Critiques of Existential Risk Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods 2021 Fall
- What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse?
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The Dance of the Arabian Babbler Birth of an Ethological Theory Vinciane Despret 2021 Spring
- A groundbreaking reflection on the process by which one arrives at an ethological theory
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Singularity Politics and Poetics Samuel Weber 2021 Spring
- An influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature
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The Dispossessed Karl Marx's Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor Daniel Bensaïd 2021 Spring
- Excavating Marx’s early writings to rethink the rights of the poor and the idea of the commons in an era of unprecedented privatization
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The Other Side of the Digital The Sacrificial Economy of New Media Andrea Righi 2021 Spring
- A necessary, rich new examination of how the wired world affects our humanity
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Prosthesis David Wills 2021 Spring
- An examination of the presumed opposition between the natural human body and artificial inanimate objects
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Molecular Capture The Animation of Biology Adam Nocek 2021 Spring
- How computer animation technologies became vital visualization tools in the life sciences
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On Not Dying Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience Abou Farman 2020 Spring
- An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality
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Postcinematic Vision The Coevolution of Moving-Image Media and the Spectator Roger F. Cook 2020 Spring
- A study of how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception, with far-ranging insights into the current state of lived experience
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Design Technics Archaeologies of Architectural Practice Zeynep Çelik Alexander and John May, Editors 2019 Fall
- Leading scholars historicize and theorize technology’s role in architectural design
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Deadly Biocultures The Ethics of Life-Making Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh R. Krupar 2019 Fall
- A trenchant analysis of the dark side of regulatory life-making today
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Wageless Life A Manifesto for a Future beyond Capitalism Ian G. R. Shaw and Marv Waterstone 2020 Spring
- Drawing up alternate ways to “make a living” beyond capitalism
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Aesthesis and Perceptronium On the Entanglement of Sensation, Cognition, and Matter Alexander Wilson 2019 Fall
- A new speculative ontology of aesthetics
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Bleak Joys Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova 2019 Fall
- A philosophical and cultural distillation of the bleak joys in today’s ambivalent ecologies and patterns of life
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An Ecotopian Lexicon Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy, Editors 2019 Fall
- Presents thirty novel terms that do not yet exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generation
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Vital Forms Biological Art, Architecture, and the Dependencies of Life Jennifer Johung 2019 Fall
- Shows how the intersection of biotech, art, and architecture are transforming the world we live in
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Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2019 Spring
- The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether
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Remain Ioana B. Jucan, Jussi Parikka and Rebecca Schneider 2019 Spring
- Engaging with remains and remainders of media cultures
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Theory for the World to Come Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2019 Spring
- Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future?
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Metaphysical Experiments Physics and the Invention of the Universe Bjørn Ekeberg 2019 Spring
- An engaging critique of the science and metaphysics behind our understanding of the universe