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  • The Theory Toolbox

    Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences

    by Jeffrey T. Nealon, Susan Searls Giroux ...
    Series series Culture and Politics Series
    Why does theory matter? In a world saturated with opinions and misrepresentations, The Theory Toolbox shows students why theory is relevant and how it is anything but abstract.With accessible examples, open-ended working questions, and a clear progression from foundational concepts to everyday application, The Theory Toolbox reimagines theory as a dynamic set of perspectives and questions that can ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Post-Postmodernism

    or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism

    by Jeffrey Nealon ...
    Post-Postmodernism begins with a simple premise: we no longer live in the world of "postmodernism," famously dubbed "the cultural logic of late capitalism" by Fredric Jameson in 1984. Far from charting any simple move "beyond" postmodernism since the 1980s, though, this book argues that we've experienced an intensification of postmodern capitalism over the past decades, an increasing saturation of ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Post-Postmodernism

    or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism

    by Jeffrey Nealon ...
    Post-Postmodernism begins with a simple premise: we no longer live in the world of "postmodernism," famously dubbed "the cultural logic of late capitalism" by Fredric Jameson in 1984. Far from charting any simple move "beyond" postmodernism since the 1980s, though, this book argues that we've experienced an intensification of postmodern capitalism over the past decades, an increasing saturation of ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Theory Toolbox

    Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences

    by Jeffrey T. Nealon, Susan Searls Giroux ...
    Series series Culture and Politics Series
    This text involves students in understanding and using the "tools" of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more difficult readings from critical and postmodern perspectives.Nealon and Searls Giroux describe key concepts and illuminate each with an engaging inquiry that asks students to consider deeper and ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Alterity Politics

    Ethics and Performative Subjectivity

    by Jeffrey T. Nealon ...
    In conventional identity politics subjective differences are understood negatively, as gaps to be overcome, as lacks of sameness, as evidence of failed or incomplete unity. In Alterity Politics Jeffrey T. Nealon argues instead for a concrete and ethical understanding of community, one that requires response, action, and performance instead of passive resentment and unproductive mourning for a ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Plant Theory

    Biopower and Vegetable Life

    by Jeffrey T. Nealon ...
    In our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics. Logically enough, the book uses animal studies as a way into the subject, but it does so in unexpected ways. Upending critical approaches of biopolitical ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Plant Theory

    Biopower and Vegetable Life

    by Jeffrey T. Nealon ...
    In our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics. Logically enough, the book uses animal studies as a way into the subject, but it does so in unexpected ways. Upending critical approaches of biopolitical ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • I'm Not Like Everybody Else

    Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and American Popular Music

    by Jeffrey T. Nealon ...
    Series series Provocations
    Despite the presence of the Flaming Lips in a commercial for a copier and Iggy Pop’s music in luxury cruise advertisements, Jeffrey T. Nealon argues that popular music has not exactly been co-opted in the American capitalist present. Contemporary neoliberal capitalism has, in fact, found a central organizing use for the values of twentieth-century popular music: being authentic, being your own ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Fates of the Performative

    From the Linguistic Turn to the New Materialism

    by Jeffrey T. Nealon ...
    Series series Thinking Theory
    A powerful new examination of the performative that asks “what’s next?” for this well-worn conceptFrom its humble origins in J. L. Austin’s speech-act theory of the 1950s, the performative has grown to permeate wildly diverse scholarly fields, ranging from deconstruction and feminism to legal theory and even theories about the structure of matter. Here Jeffrey T. Nealon discovers how the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Year's Work at the Zombie Research Center

    by Stephen Watt, Dan Hassler-Forest, Erik Bohman, Stephen Shapiro, Jack Raglin, Atia Sattar, Seth Morton, Andrea Ruthven, Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe, John Gibson, Jonathan P. Eburne, Stephen Schneider, Jeffrey T. Nealon ...
    Series series The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
    "Playful and (un)deadly serious . . . chew[s] through a near-exhaustive array of films, television, literature, culture, music and even cocktails."— Times Literary SupplementThey have stalked the horizons of our culture, wreaked havoc on moribund concepts of dead and not dead, threatened our sense of identity, and endangered our personal safety. Now zombies have emerged from the lurking shadows of ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism

    Edited by Steven Connor ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism offers a comprehensive introduction to postmodernism. The Companion examines the different aspects of postmodernist thought and culture that have had a significant impact on contemporary cultural production and thinking. Topics discussed by experts in the field include postmodernism's relation to modernity, and its significance and relevance to literature, ... Read more

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  • The Sociological Imagination

    by C. Wright Mills ...
    C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the social, personal, ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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