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  • Memory Art in the Contemporary World

    Confronting Violence in the Global South

    by Andreas Andreas Huyssen ...
    Series series New Directions in Contemporary Art
    Memory Art in the Contemporary World deals with the ever-expanding field of transnational memory art, which has emerged from a political need to come to terms with traumatic historical pasts, from the Holocaust to apartheid, colonialism, state terror and civil war. The book focuses on the work of several contemporary artists from beyond the Northern Transatlantic, including William Kentridge, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Twilight Memories

    Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia

    by Andreas Huyssen ...
    In this new collection of essays on memory and amnesia in the postmodern world, cultural critic Andreas Huyssen considers how nationalism, literature, art, politics, and the media are obsessed with the past. The great paradox of our fin-de-siecle culture is that novelty is even more associated with memory than with future expectation. Drawing heavily on the dilemmas of contemporary Germany, ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Miniature Metropolis

    Literature in an Age of Photography and Film

    by Andreas Huyssen ...
    In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Europe’s modernizing metropolises offered a sensory experience unlike anything that had come before. Cities became laboratories bubbling with aesthetic experimentation in old and new media, and from this milieu emerged metropolitan miniatures—short prose pieces about the experiences of urban life written for European newspapers. Miniature ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Miniature Metropolis

    Literature in an Age of Photography and Film

    by Andreas Huyssen ...
    In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Europe’s modernizing metropolises offered a sensory experience unlike anything that had come before. Cities became laboratories bubbling with aesthetic experimentation in old and new media, and from this milieu emerged metropolitan miniatures—short prose pieces about the experiences of urban life written for European newspapers. Miniature ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Memory Art in the Contemporary World

    Confronting Violence in the Global South

    by Andreas Huyssen, Andreas Andreas Huyssen ...
    Series series New Directions in Contemporary Art
    Memory Art in the Contemporary World deals with the ever-expanding field of transnational memory art, which has emerged from a political need to come to terms with traumatic historical pasts, from the Holocaust to apartheid, colonialism, state terror and civil war. The book focuses on the work of several contemporary artists from beyond the Northern Transatlantic, including William Kentridge, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Other Cities, Other Worlds

    Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age

    Edited by Andreas Huyssen ...
    Other Cities, Other Worlds brings together leading scholars of cultural theory, urban studies, art, anthropology, literature, film, architecture, and history to look at non-Western global cities. The contributors focus on urban imaginaries, the ways that city dwellers perceive or imagine their own cities. Paying particular attention to the historical and cultural dimensions of urban life, they ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Globalization

    by Achille Mbembe, Philippe Rekacewicz, Andreas Huyssen, Boubacar Touré Mandémory ...
    Series series a Public Culture Book
    Edited by one of the most prominent scholars in the field and including a distinguished group of contributors, this collection of essays makes a striking intervention in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization. While including discussions about what globalization is and whether it is a meaningful term, the volume focuses in particular on the way that ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Globalizing Critical Theory

    by James Bohman, Jacques Derrida, Nancy Fraser, Jürgen Habermas, Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Andreas Huyssen, María Pía Lara, Silvia L. López, F Scott Scribner, Clay Steinman, Carsten Strathausen, Thomas McCarthy, Eduardo Mendieta ...
    Series series New Critical Theory
    Across a spectrum of academic disciplines, the topic of globalization is at the forefront of contemporary efforts to understand a dynamically changing world society. How might critical social theory respond creatively to the challenge of thinking and theorizing globalization in its full complexity? Globalizing Critical Theory collects essays by scholars at the forefront of Critical Theory as they ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

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    Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection

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    The Politics of Everybody examines the production and maintenance of the terms 'man', 'woman', and 'other' within the current political moment; the contradictions of these categories and the prospects of a Marxist approach to praxis for queer bodies. Few thinkers have attempted to reconcile queer and Marxist analysis. Those who have propose the key contested site to be that of desire/sexual ... Read more

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  • Progress

    A Reconstruction

    by Peter Wagner ...
    The idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries. From the Enlightenment onwards, it was widely believed that the condition of humankind could be radically improved. History had embarked on an unstoppable forward trajectory, realizing the promise of freedom and reason. The scientific revolution, the industrial revolution, and the French Revolution, in some views ... Read more

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  • Left Hemisphere

    Mapping Contemporary Theory

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    Translated by Gregory Elliott ...
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  • But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory

    An Introduction to Art Theory

    by Cynthia Freeland ...
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