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Inanimation Theories of Inorganic Life David Wills 2016 Spring

An exuberantly original perspective on what it means to be “alive”

A Love of UIQ Félix Guattari 2016 Spring

An exciting attempt by one of France’s best-known thinkers wherein he explores his thought through cinematic narrative.

Neofinalism Raymond Ruyer 2016 Spring

The masterwork of an influential French philosopher, available in English for the first time

Desert Dreamers Barbara Glowczewski 2016 Spring

An ethnographic adventure exploring the Warlpiri and their cultural practices of “the dreaming” in relation to their societal laws, ritual art, and connection with the cosmos

Elemental Ecocriticism Thinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert, Editors 2015 Fall

Brings to ecotheory and the environmental humanities the challenges and possibilities offered by thinking in elemental terms

The Different Modes of Existence Etienne Souriau 2015 Fall

Exploring the aesthetic depths of the various modes of existence by one of France’s most heralded but forgotten thinkers of existential pluralism

Mandela’s Dark Years A Political Theory of Dreaming Sharon Sliwinski 2016 Spring

Inspired by one of Nelson Mandela’s recurring nightmares, Mandela’s Dark Years offers a political reading of dream-life

Indifference to Difference On Queer Universalism Madhavi Menon 2015 Fall

A thought-provoking argument for abandoning identity politics

Cartography of Exhaustion Nihilism Inside Out Peter Pál Pelbart 2015 Fall

A meditation on the possibility of fighting off the exhaustion of our contemporary age of communicative and connective excess

The Challenge of Surrealism The Correspondence of Theodor W. Adorno and Elisabeth Lenk Elisabeth Lenk and Theodor W. Adorno Susan H. Gillespie, Editor 2015 Fall

An epistolary treasure trove and a newly contextualized look at philosopher Theodor W. Adorno

Improper Names Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous Marco Deseriis 2015 Fall

The first comprehensive analysis of the shared pseudonym, a collective strategy to build symbolic power that challenges established forms of political and aesthetic representation