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  • The Long Space

    Transnationalism and Postcolonial Form

    by Peter Hitchcock ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    The resurgence of "world literature" as a category of study seems to coincide with what we understand as globalization, but how does postcolonial writing fit into this picture? Beyond the content of this novel or that, what elements of postcolonial fiction might challenge the assumption that its main aim is to circulate native information globally? The Long Space provides a fresh look at the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Long Space

    Transnationalism and Postcolonial Form

    by Peter Hitchcock ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    The resurgence of "world literature" as a category of study seems to coincide with what we understand as globalization, but how does postcolonial writing fit into this picture? Beyond the content of this novel or that, what elements of postcolonial fiction might challenge the assumption that its main aim is to circulate native information globally? The Long Space provides a fresh look at the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Labor in Culture, Or, Worker of the World(s)

    by Peter Hitchcock ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is a cultural critique of labor and globalization that considers whether one can represent the other. The cultural representation of labor is a challenge in how globalization is understood. Workers may be everywhere in the world but cultural correlatives are problematic. By elaborating cultural theory and practice this book examines why this might be so. If globalization unites workers ... Read more

    $83.29 CAD

  • Parasitical Logic in Culture and Society

    Edited by Professor Peter Hitchcock ...
    In essays on literature, film, capitalism, and the university, this book illuminates and deepens the understanding of the parasite as a metaphor for cultural and social critique.While symbiosis may harm the host to the benefit of the parasite, humans have nonetheless developed complex networks to rationalize intra-species parasitism. From influence to borrowing to the “creativity” of AI, and from ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Causation

    Edited by Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock, Peter Menzies ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy. In metaphysics, philosophers want to know what causation is, and how it is related to laws of nature, probability, action, and freedom of the will. In epistemology, philosophers investigate how causal claims can be inferred from statistical data, and how causation is related to perception, knowledge and explanation. In the philosophy of ... Read more

    $57.59 CAD

  • The Debt Age

    Edited by Peter Hitchcock, Jeffrey Di Leo, Sophia McClennen ...
    This collection of essays, by some of the most distinguished public intellectuals and cultural critics in America explores various dimensions of what it means to live in the age of debt. They ask, what is the debt age? For that matter, what is debt? Is its meaning transhistorical or transcultural? Or is it imbued in ideology and thus historically contingent? What is the relationship between debt ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Biotheory

    Life and Death under Capitalism

    Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Peter Hitchcock ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Forged at the intersection of intense interest in the pertinence and uses of biopolitics and biopower, this volume analyzes theoretical and practical paradigms for understanding and challenging the socioeconomic determinations of life and death in contemporary capitalism. Its contributors offer a series of trenchant interdisciplinary critiques, each one taking on both the specific dimensions of ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Causation

    Edited by Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock, Peter Menzies ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy. In metaphysics, philosophers want to know what causation is, and how it is related to laws of nature, probability, action, and freedom of the will. In epistemology, philosophers investigate how causal claims can be inferred from statistical data, and how causation is related to perception, knowledge and explanation. In the philosophy of ... Read more

    $57.59 CAD

  • Noir Affect

    by Christopher Breu, Elizabeth A. Hatmaker, Paula Rabinowitz, Alexander Dunst, Sean Grattan, Peter Hitchcock, Justus Nieland, Andrew Pepper, Brian Rejack0, Ignacio Sánchez Prado1, Pamela Thoma2, Kirin Wachter-Grene3 ...
    Noir Affect proposes a new understanding of noir as defined by negative affect. This new understanding emphasizes that noir is, first and foremost, an affective disposition rather than a specific cycle of films or novels associated with a given time period or national tradition. Instead, the essays in Noir Affect trace noir’s negativity as it manifests in different national contexts from the ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Postcolonial Contemporary

    Political Imaginaries for the Global Present

    by Jini Kim Watson, Gary Wilder, Sadia Abbas, Anthony C. Alessandrini, Sharad Chari, Carlos A. Forment, Peter Hitchcock, Laurie Lambert, Stephen Muecke0, Anupama Rao1, Adam Spanos2, Vinay Gidwani3 ...
    This volume invokes the “postcolonial contemporary” in order to recognize and reflect upon the emphatically postcolonial character of the contemporary conjuncture, as well as to inquire into whether postcolonial criticism can adequately grasp it. Neither simply for nor against postcolonialism, the volume seeks to cut across this false alternative, and to think with postcolonial theory about ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Flora of the Pacific Northwest

    An Illustrated Manual

    by C. Leo Hitchcock, Arthur Cronquist ...
    Flora of the Pacific Northwest, first published in 1973, became an instant classic for its innovative style of providing species descriptions in the identification keys and for its comprehensive illustrations of nearly all treated taxa (species, subspecies, and varieties). Students rely on it as an essential primer, while veteran botanists and natural resource managers use it as the definitive ... Read more

    $87.19 CAD

  • The Making of Medieval History

    by Graham Loud, Joep Leerssen, Martial Staub, Michael Borgolte, Patrick Geary, Professor Peter Biller, Richard Hitchcock, Bastian Schlütter, Bernhard Jussen0, Christian Lübke1, Christine Ames2, Professor Ian Nicholas Wood3, Janet L Nelson4 ...
    A hugely interesting set of essays, reflecting on a variety of ways in which medieval history has developed to the present time. Scholarship of the highest standard, deeply thought-provoking and deeply engaged with the inheritances and future tasks of medieval academic history. The collection will be essential reading for all medievalists. John Arnold, Professor of Medieval History, University of ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD