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  • Weird Wonder in Merleau-Ponty, Object-Oriented Ontology, and New Materialism

    by Brian Hisao Onishi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book connects recent developments in speculative realism, new materialism, and eco-phenomenology to articulate an approach to wonder that escapes the connected traps of anthropocentrism and correlationism. Brian Onishi argues that wonder has explanatory power for the constitution of the world and the organization of meaning. To do this, he appeals to both fiction (speculative and Weird ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • The Call of the Eco-Weird in Fiction, Films, and Games

    Edited by Brian Hisao Onishi, Nathan M. Bell ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This edited volume identifies and analyses the Eco-Weird as an interdisciplinary theoretical tool for engaging in fictional, philosophical, filmic, and ludic texts. It is the first volume to engage in the study of the Eco-Weird, which is a developing field at the intersection of environmental thought and Weird fiction, broadly construed to include literature, games, films, art, and television ... Read more

    $218.49 CAD

  • Philosophy, Film, and the Dark Side of Interdependence

    by David Baumeister, Vernon W. Cisney, Tober Corrigan, Rick Elmore, Jonathan Elmore, Luis Favela, Eric Godoy, Josh Grant-Young, Sydney Lane, Eunah Lee, Brian Onishi, Chandler Rogers, Kendall Phillips, Robert Sinnerbrink ...
    Why might interdependence, the idea that we are made up of our relations, be horrifying? Philosophy, Film, and the Dark Side of Interdependence argues that philosophy can outline the contours of dark specter of interdependence and that film can shine a light on its shadowy details, together revealing a horror of relations. The contributors interrogate the question of interdependence through ... Read more

    $123.99 CAD

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  • The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction

    by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay ...
    This major critical work from one of the preeminent voices in science fiction scholarship reframes the genre as a way of understanding today's world.As the application of technoscience increasingly transforms every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. Though the broad scope of science fiction may vary in artistic quality and ... Read more

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  • Green Planets

    Ecology and Science Fiction

    Edited by Gerry Canavan, Kim Stanley Robinson ...
    Contemporary visions of the future have been shaped by hopes and fears about the effects of human technology and global capitalism on the natural world. In an era of climate change, mass extinction, and oil shortage, such visions have become increasingly catastrophic, even apocalyptic. Exploring the close relationship between science fiction, ecology, and environmentalism, the essays in Green ... Read more

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  • Cute Accelerationism

    by Amy Ireland, Maya B. Kronic ...
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  • Ecology without Nature

    Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics

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    Science Fiction and Potentiality

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    The Philosophy of Doctor Who

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    Edited by Giovanni Aloi, Susan McHugh ...
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