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  • Culture after Humanism

    History, Culture, Subjectivity

    by Iain Chambers ...
    Series series Comedia
    Culture After Humanism asks what happens to the authority of traditional western modes of thought in the wake of postmodernist theories of language and identity. Drawing on examples from music, architecture, literature, philosophy and art, Iain Chambers investigates moments of tension, interruptions which transform our perception of the world and test the limits of language, art and technology. ... Read more

    $77.61 CAD

  • Migrancy, Culture, Identity

    by Iain Chambers ...
    Series series Comedia
    In Migrancy, Culture, Identity, Iain Chambers unravels how our sense of place and identity is realised as we move through myriad languages, worlds and histories. The author explores the uncharted impact of cultural diversity on today's world, from the 'realistic' eye of the painter to the 'scientific' approach of the cultural anthropologist or the critical distance of the historian; from the ... Read more

    $77.61 CAD

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  • Postmodernism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Butler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists 'as if they were all ... Read more

    $6.83 CAD

  • The Location of Culture

    by Homi K. Bhabha ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. In The Location of Culture, he uses concepts such as mimicry, interstice, hybridity, and liminality to argue that cultural production is always most productive where it is most ambivalent. ... Read more

    $50.50 CAD

  • Dark Deleuze

    by Andrew Culp ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    French philosopher Gilles Deleuze is known as a thinker of creation, joyous affirmation, and rhizomatic assemblages. In this short book, Andrew Culp polemically argues that this once-radical canon of joy has lost its resistance to the present. Concepts created to defeat capitalism have been recycled into business mantras that joyously affirm “Power is vertical; potential is horizontal!”Culp ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory

    Edited by Paul Wake, Simon Malpas ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    Now in a fully updated second edition The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory is an indispensible guide for anyone approaching the field for the first time. Exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines through a series of 11 critical essays and a dictionary of key names and terms, this book examines some of the most complex and fundamental theories in modern scholarship ... Read more

    $71.45 CAD

  • Foucault Now

    Edited by James Faubion ...
    Series series Theory Now
    Michel Foucault is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers, however the authors in this volume contend that more use can be made of Foucault than has yet been done and that some of the uses to which Foucault has so far been put run the risk of and occasionally simply amount to misuse.This interdisciplinary volume brings together a group of esteemed scholars, ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Performance Analysis

    An Introductory Coursebook

    Edited by Colin Counsell, Laurie Wolf ...
    This revolutionary introductory performance studies coursebook brings together classic texts in critical theory and shows how these texts can be used in the analysis of performance. The editors put their texts to work in examining such key topics as: * decoding the sign * the politics of performance * the politics of gender and sexual identity * performing ethnicity * the performing body * the ... Read more

    $89.93 CAD

  • Conversations with Zizek

    by Glyn Daly, Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series Conversations
    In this new book, Slavoj iek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of iek’s thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multiculturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics.An excellent introduction to one of the most engaging and controversial cultural theorists writing today.iek is a Slovenian sociologist who trained ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Literary Theory Handbook

    by Gregory Castle ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
    The Literary Theory Handbook introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, showing them how to perform literary analysis, and providing a greater understanding of the historical contexts for different theories.A new edition of this highly successful text, which includes updated and refined chapters, and new sections on contemporary theoriesFar reaching in its inclusion of a ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Theory's Empire

    An Anthology of Dissent

    Edited by Daphne Patai, Wilfrido Corral ...
    Not too long ago, literary theorists were writing about the death of the novel and the death of the author; today many are talking about the death of Theory. Theory, as the many theoretical ism's (among them postcolonialism, postmodernism, and New Historicism) are now known, once seemed so exciting but has become ossified and insular. This iconoclastic collection is an excellent companion to ... Read more

    $42.47 CAD

  • Nomadic Subjects

    Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory

    by Rosi Braidotti ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    For more than fifteen years, Nomadic Subjects has guided discourse in continental philosophy and feminist theory, exploring the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, especially the concept of difference within European philosophy and political theory. Rosi Braidotti's creative style vividly renders a productive crisis of modernity. From a feminist perspective, she recasts embodiment, sexual ... Read more

    $33.11 CAD