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  • The Ethics of Extremity

    On Hearing, Seeing, and Feeling Each Other

    Edited by Nelson Varas-Díaz, Vivek Venkatesh ...
    Series series Extremity in Society and Culture
    The Ethics of Extremity critically examines how we can understand, interact with, and intervene in a world where what was once considered extreme has become normalized as part of everyday life.Contributors invite us to re-examine our explicit and implicit expectations that ethics would curtail extremity - and how those assumptions have frequently failed. This opens up a central question: what is ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • On Extremity

    From Music to Images, Words, and Experiences

    by Nelson Varas-Díaz, Alixida Ramos-Pibernus, Anna Chilewska, Robin Purves, Jason Wallin, Jeffrey Podoshen, Ross Hagen, Vivek Venkatesh, Bradley J. Nelson, Jasmine Hazel Shadrack0, Luis Javier Cintrón-Gutiérrez1, Niall W.R. Scott2, Edward Banchs4, Prof. Sheilla R. Madera5, Professor Bryan A. Bardine6 ...
    Series series Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations
    On Extremity: From Music to Images, Words, and Experiences brings together transdisciplinary scholarship on sounds, images, words, and experiences (human and non-human) to reflect on the polysemic and polymorphic characteristics of extremity and the category of the extreme. The editors and authors aim to contribute to a living, breathing, and expanding definition of extremity that helps us ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Educational, Psychological, and Behavioral Considerations in Niche Online Communities

    Edited by Vivek Venkatesh, Jason Wallin, Juan Carlos Castro, Jason Edward Lewis ...
    Online communities continue to evolve as more people take on a virtual presence. This shift in online communities and the diversity of individuals populating the web has allowed for the emergence of virtual communities centered on niche topics of interests ranging from heavy metal music to indigenous and native culture. Educational, Psychological, and Behavioral Considerations in Niche Online ... Read more

    $239.99 CAD

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  • Heavy Metal Music and the Communal Experience

    by Keith Kahn-Harris, Deena Weinstein, Esther Clinton, Brian Hickam, Kathryn Jezer-Morton, Toni-Matti Karjalainen, Sigrid Mendoza, Eric Morales, Bradley J. Nelson, Jeffrey S. Podoshen, Jihan Raban, Paula Rowe, Karl Spracklen, Méi-Ra St. Laurent, Tieja Thomas, Christopher Thompson, Kathryn Urbaniak, Vivek Venkatesh, Jason J. Wallin, Jeremy Wallach ...
    It is common to hear heavy metal music fans and musicians talk about the “metal community”. This concept, which is widely used when referencing this musical genre, encompasses multiple complex aspects that are seldom addressed in traditional academic endeavors including shared aesthetics, musical practices, geographies, and narratives. The idea of a “metal community” recognizes that fans and ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

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    Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds

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    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth. Noting that most design—from consumer goods and digital technologies to built environments—currently serves capitalist ends, Escobar argues for the development of an ... Read more

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  • Performance

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    Series Book 24 - Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
    An analysis of contemporary violence as the new commodity of today's hyper-consumerist stage of capitalism.“Death has become the most profitable business in existence.”—from Gore CapitalismWritten by the Tijuana activist intellectual Sayak Valencia, Gore Capitalism is a crucial essay that posits a decolonial, feminist philosophical approach to the outbreak of violence in Mexico and, more broadly, ... Read more

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  • La Lucha

    Latin American Feminism Today

    Edited by Carolina Orloff ...
    Series series Essays
    From Mexico to Patagonia, the struggle for women's rights in Latin America comes alive in the voices of the artists and activists making the change.La Lucha gathers the voices of 30 artists, scholars, and activists, from 17 countries, actively engaged in the fight for women’s rights in Latin America. From the patriarchy to femicide, to the inflections of identity embedded in colour, class, and ... Read more

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  • Porque Estamos Aquí

    Puerto Rican Feminisms In but Against Empire

    Edited by Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón ...
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  • Planetary Longings

    by Mary Louise Pratt ...
    Series series Dissident Acts
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  • Consumers And Citizens

    Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts

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    Series series Cultural Studies of the Americas
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  • Spanish So White

    Conversations on the Inconvenient Racism of a ‘Foreign’ Language Education

    by Adam Schwartz ...
    Explicit discussions of race and racial identity have traditionally been omitted from Spanish language education in the US – especially in curricula designed for imagined 'native' speakers of English. Consequences of this de-racialization of Spanish language learning include the perpetuation of institutional racisms and missed opportunities to build productive conversations about the ways race and ... Read more

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