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Interventions eBook Series

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  • Studies in Trans-Disciplinary Method

    After the Aesthetic Turn

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    Series series Interventions
    This groundbreaking and innovative text addresses the deep ontological and epistemological commitments that underpin conventional positivist methods and then demonstrates how "method" can be understood in much broader and more interesting ways.Drawing on a broad range of philosophical and methodological theory as well as a wide variety of artistic sources from fine art to cinema and from ... Read more

    PHP4,287.06

  • The Time of the City

    Politics, philosophy and genre

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    Series series Interventions
    The Time of the City is a trans-disciplinary work with a focus on genre-city relationships as they articulate the micropolitics of urban life in diverse cities. Shifting the territorial emphasis of political studies from the mosaic of states to the global network of cities, the book draws on urban theory rather than traditional forms of official city politics. Deriving their methodological ... Read more

    PHP4,113.24

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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

    PHP462.95

  • At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination

    A Reappraisal of Marshall McLuhan

    Edited by John Moss, Linda M. Morra ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination collects a dozen re-evaluative essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy; from intellectual adventurer creating a complex architecture of ideas to cultural icon standing in line in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Given McLuhan’s prominent status in many academic disciplines, the contributors reflect a multi-disciplinary background ... Read more

    PHP543.79

  • Performing Remains

    Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment

    by Rebecca Schneider ...
    'At last, the past has arrived! Performing Remains is Rebecca Schneider's authoritative statement on a major topic of interest to the field of theatre and performance studies. It extends and consolidates her pioneering contributions to the field through its interdisciplinary method, vivid writing, and stimulating polemic. Performing Remains has been eagerly awaited, and will be appreciated now and ... Read more

    PHP3,765.59

  • Aesthetic Resistance and Dis-interest

    That Which Will Not Allow Itself to Be Said

    by John Steppling ...
    The collusion of galleries, collectors and curators, following the model of studio film and network TV, has equated popularity with quality. The problem then is to recuperate something of the lost radical conscience of art and culture.Art is a recreation of our own psychic formation (mimesis) as well as being shaped by its ‘otherness’ and by history. All stories are crime stories, all stories are ... Read more

    PHP267.99

  • On the Outskirts of Form

    Practicing Cultural Poetics

    by Michael Davidson ...
    This new book by eminent scholar Michael Davidson gathers his essays concerning formally innovative poetry from modernists such as Mina Loy, George Oppen, and Wallace Stevens to current practitioners such as Cristina Rivera-Garza, Heriberto Yépez, Lisa Robertson, and Mark Nowak. The book considers poems that challenge traditional poetic forms and in doing so trouble normative boundaries of ... Read more

    PHP901.69

  • The Shape of the Signifier

    1967 to the End of History

    by Walter Benn Michaels ...
    The Shape of the Signifier is a critique of recent theory--primarily literary but also cultural and political. Bringing together previously unconnected strands of Michaels's thought--from "Against Theory" to Our America--it anatomizes what's fundamentally at stake when we think of literature in terms of the experience of the reader rather than the intention of the author, and when we substitute ... Read more

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  • Life between Two Deaths, 1989-2001

    U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties

    by Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, Phillip E. Wegner ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Through virtuoso readings of significant works of American film, television, and fiction, Phillip E. Wegner demonstrates that the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 fostered a unique consciousness and represented a moment of immense historical possibilities now at risk of being forgotten in the midst of the “war on terror.” ... Read more

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  • Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers

    Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War

    by Arthur Redding ...
    The Cold War was unique in the way films, books, television shows, colleges and universities, and practices of everyday life were enlisted to create American political consensus. This coercion fostered a seemingly hegemonic, nationally unified perspective devoted to spreading a capitalist, socially conservative notion of freedom throughout the world to fight Communism.In Turncoats, Traitors, and ... Read more

    PHP2,085.89

  • Containment Culture

    American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age

    by Alan Nadel, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    Alan Nadel provides a unique analysis of the rise of American postmodernism by viewing it as a breakdown in Cold War cultural narratives of containment. These narratives, which embodied an American postwar foreign policy charged with checking the spread of Communism, also operated, Nadel argues, within a wide spectrum of cultural life in the United States to contain atomic secrets, sexual license, ... Read more

    PHP1,666.69

  • Theorizing Documentary

    Edited by Michael Renov ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    A key collection of essays that looks at the specific issues related to the documentary form. Questions addressed include `What is documentary?' and `How fictional is nonfiction?' ... Read more

    PHP3,997.36