Theory and Philosophy

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

When Time Warps The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence Megan Burke 2019 Fall

An inquiry into the phenomenology of “woman” based in the relationship between lived time and sexual violence

Medical Technics Don Ihde 2020 Spring

A personal account of the aging body and advanced technologies by a preeminent philosopher of technology

Archives of Infamy Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens Nancy Luxon, Editor 2019 Spring

Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault’s Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and daily life

Beyond the Meme Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution Alan C. Love and William C. Wimsatt, Editors 2019 Spring

Interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution that reject meme theory in favor of a complex understanding of dynamic change over time

Philosophy of New Music Theodor W. Adorno Robert Hullot-Kentor, Editor 2019 Fall

An indispensable key to Adorno’s influential oeuvre—now in paperback

Anti-Electra The Radical Totem of the Girl Elisabeth von Samsonow 2019 Spring

A close examination of the relationship between media, art, and the “Electra complex”

Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism Arne De Boever 2019 Fall

Reconsiders exceptionalism between aesthetics and politics

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?

Edges of the State John Protevi 2019 Fall

Using philosophical and scientific work to engage the perennial question of human nature

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

The Technique of Thought Nancy, Laruelle, Malabou, and Stiegler after Naturalism Ian James 2019 Spring

Interrogating the work of four contemporary French philosophers to rethink philosophy’s relationship to science and science’s relationship to reality

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