In the wake of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015, millions took to the streets to demonstrate ...
Continue Reading βLife typically becomes an object of reflection when it is seen to be under threat. In particular, humans have a tendency to engage in thinking ...
Continue Reading βIn Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ...
Continue Reading βThe Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital ‘second life’, genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and ...
Continue Reading βSex After Life aims to consider the various ways in which the concept of life has provided normative and moralizing ballast for queer, feminist and ...
Continue Reading βFollowing on from Theory and the Disappearing Future, in Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols, Cohen, Colebrook and Miller turn their attention to the eco-critical and ...
Continue Reading βThis first volume of Niklas Luhmann’s two-part final work was initially published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize ...
Continue Reading β“Rob Shields provides here an immensely sophisticated and detailed examination of the topological turn. He has been examining these issues for some decades and this ...
Continue Reading βThis βmagisterial accountβ explores the fear of witchcraft across the globe from the ancient world to the notorious witch trials of early modern Europe (The ...
Continue Reading βIn this major work, sociologists Boltanski and Chiapello ask why anti-capitalist critique seems so impotent in the face of new forms of market-oriented business practice, ...
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