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  • Re-thinking Posthumanism across the Global South

    An Introduction

    Edited by Bapin Mallick, Nikhilesh Dhar ...
    Scholarly attention to the concept of the posthuman has increased recently in response to pressing problems about what it means to be human and what distinguishes the human from the nonhuman. The ongoing ecological catastrophes, recent technological breakthroughs, and the desire to address in new ways issues involving race, gender, and environment has further intensified this engagement. In the ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Posthumanism and Literary Insights: A Critical Introduction

    Edited by Nikhilesh Dhar, Bapin Mallick ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The volume delves into the provocative terrain of escape as a mode of resistance. Through a diverse array of studies encompassing political theology and artificial intelligence, the author navigates the philosophical landscape of exiting established forms of knowledge and practices.Drawing from a rich tapestry of Western thought—from Carl Schmitt and St. Augustine to Bernard Stiegler and Antonio ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

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  • Animals, Robots, Gods

    Adventures in the Moral Imagination

    by Webb Keane ...
    A mind-expanding exploration of the ethical bonds we share with the nonhumanMoral relationships saturate the living world, and the line between the human and nonhuman is blurrier than we might think. Animals, Robots, Gods provides a bold new vision of ethics defined less by the individual mind or society and more by our interactions with those around us, whether they are the pets we keep, the gods ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Seeing Through the World

    Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness

    by Jeremy D Johnson ...
    Series Book 1 - Nuralogicals
    Seeing Through the World introduces the reader to the work of German-Swiss philosopher, poet, and intellectual mystic Jean Gebser (1905-1973). Writing in the midcentury during a period of intense cultural transformation and crisis in Europe, Gebser intuited a series of mutational leaps in the history of human consciousness, the latest of which emerging was the “integral” structure, marked by the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Mapping the Shifting Paradigms of Post-Modern Society

    by Manu Mangattu ...
    Postmodernism has become the Holy Grail that charts 'living' in the present world through speculations, deliberations and negotiations. This collection of scholarly research articles map our dialogues with the intersections that twenty-first century society offers to individuals. Mapping the changing landscape of the Post-modern world is essential as man will not be talked out of finding meaning ... Read more

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  • Media Theory in Japan

    Edited by Marc Steinberg, Alexander Zahlten ...
    Providing an overview of Japanese media theory from the 1910s to the present, this volume introduces English-language readers to Japan's rich body of theoretical and conceptual work on media for the first time. The essays address a wide range of topics, including the work of foundational Japanese thinkers; Japanese theories of mediation and the philosophy of media; the connections between early ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Becoming Gaia

    On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation

    by Sean Kelly ...
    We are living in end times. With climate chaos, an accelerating mass extinction, and signs of civilizational collapse, the Earth community is being drawn into a planetary near-death experience (NDE). These end times, however, also mark the threshold of new planetary identity in the making. Drawing on an impressive range of scholarship from such fields as Big history, comparative religion, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Empty Room

    Imagining Butoh and the Social Body in Crisis

    by Michael Sakamoto ...
    Short Listed for The de la Torre Bueno© First Book Award (2023)An Empty Room is a transformative journey through butoh, an avant-garde form of performance art that originated in Japan in the late 1950's and is now a global phenomenon. This is the first book about butoh authored by a scholar-practitioner who combines personal experience with ethnographic and historical accounts alongside over ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Post- and Transhumanism

    An Introduction

    Edited by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, Robert Ranisch ...
    Series Book 1 - Beyond Humanism: Trans- and Posthumanism / Jenseits des Humanismus: Trans- und Posthumanismus
    Scientific advances in genetics, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence signal the end of our traditional concept of the human being. The most vigorous movements dealing with this ongoing crisis of humanism are posthumanism and transhumanism. While posthumanism reconsiders what it means to be human, transhumanism actively promotes human enhancement. Both approaches address the posthuman ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • Liquid Space

    Science Fiction Film and Television in the Digital Age

    by Professor Sean Redmond ...
    Science fiction is perhaps the most effective genre to explore the concerns of the present whilst reflecting on the possibilities of the future. But what precisely can it tell us about present and future by setting these two timeframes in the same critical space? ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Double Visions, Double Fictions

    The Doppelgänger in Japanese Film and Literature

    by Baryon Tensor Posadas ...
    A fresh take on the dopplegänger and its place in Japanese film and literature—past and presentSince its earliest known use in German Romanticism in the late 1700s, the word Doppelgänger (double-walker) can be found throughout a vast array of literature, culture, and media. This motif of doubling can also be seen traversing historical and cultural boundaries. Double Visions, Double Fictions ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Intelligent Machines as Racialized Other

    Toward Authentic Encounters

    by Min-Sun Kim ...
    Our narratives about intelligent machines reprise the same modes in which humans have historically dealt with "other" groups of humans, especially during the era of colonialism. Addressing unconscious assumptions involving race, gender, hierarchy, power, imperialism, and capitalism in the post-colonial world, this book argues that cultural narratives regarding intelligent machines have much to do ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD