Theory and Philosophy

Invoking Hope Theory and Utopia in Dark Times Phillip E. Wegner 2020 Spring

An appeal for the importance of theory, utopia, and close consideration of our contemporary dark times

Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information Gilbert Simondon 2020 Spring

A long-awaited translation on the philosophical relation between technology, the individual, and milieu of the living

Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, Volume II Volume II: Supplemental Texts Gilbert Simondon 2020 Spring

Unique access to archival material of a major thinker, including presentations, early drafts, and a thorough introduction to the history of the philosophical notion of the individual

Thinking Plant Animal Human Encounters with Communities of Difference David Wood 2020 Spring

Collected essays by a leading philosopher situating the question of the animal in the broader context of a relational ontology

The Elements of Foucault Gregg Lambert 2020 Spring

A new conceptual diagram of Foucault’s original vision of the biopolitical order

The Decision of Desire Silvia Lippi 2020 Spring

A unique rereading of Lacan’s theory of desire and its link to masochism, joy, mysticism, death, and feminine jouissance

Curating as Ethics Jean-Paul Martinon 2020 Spring

A new ethics for the global practice of curating

Furious Feminisms Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road Alexis L. Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, Michael Gill and Barbara Gurr 2020 Spring

A provocative peek into this complicated film as a space for subversion, activism, and imaginative power

Afrotopia Felwine Sarr 2019 Fall

A vibrant meditation and poetic call for an African utopian philosophy of self-reinvention for the twenty-first century

Uproarious How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett 2019 Fall

A radical new approach to humor, where traditional targets become its agents

Aesthesis and Perceptronium On the Entanglement of Sensation, Cognition, and Matter Alexander Wilson 2019 Fall

A new speculative ontology of aesthetics

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

Spoiler Alert A Critical Guide Aaron Jaffe 2020 Spring

All of this information at our fingertips—and we might not need any of it

Discourse, Figure Jean-François Lyotard 2020 Spring

Lyotard’s earliest major work, available in English for the first time

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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