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  • Furious

    Technological Feminism and Digital Futures

    by Caroline Bassett, Sarah Kember, Kate O'Riordan ...
    Series series Digital Barricades
    As digital transformations continue to accelerate in the world, discourses of big data have come to dominate in a number of fields, from politics and economics, to media and education. But how can we really understand the digital world when so much of the writing through which we grapple with it remains deeply problematic?In a compelling new work of feminist critical theory, Bassett, Kember and O ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Whose Book is it Anyway?

    by Janis Jefferies, Sarah Kember ...
    Whose Book is it Anyway? is a provocative collection of essays that opens out the copyright debate to questions of open access, ethics, and creativity. It includes views – such as artist’s perspectives, writer’s perspectives, feminist, and international perspectives – that are too often marginalized or elided altogether.The diverse range of contributors take various approaches, from the scholarly ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life

    by Sarah Kember ...
    Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life examines the construction, manipulation and re-definition of life in contemporary technoscientific culture. It takes a critical political view of the concept of life as information, tracing this through the new biology and the discourse of genomics as well as through the changing discipline of artificial life and its manifestation in art, language, literature, ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Inventive Life

    Approaches to the New Vitalism

    Edited by Sarah Kember, Celia Lury, Mariam Fraser ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    This book demonstrates how and why vitalism - the idea that life cannot be explained by the principles of mechanism - matters now. Vitalism resists closure and reductionism in the life sciences whilst simultaneously addressing the object of life itself. The aim of this collection is to consider the questions that vitalism makes it possible to ask: questions about the role and status of life across ... Read more

    $213.99 USD

  • iMedia

    The Gendering of Objects, Environments and Smart Materials

    by Sarah Kember ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    What can queer feminist writing strategies such as parody and irony do to outsmart the sexism of smart objects, environments and materials and open out the new dialecticism of structure and scale, critique and creativity?Drawing on science and technology studies and feminist theory, this book examines the gendering of current and future media technologies such as smart phones, Google glass, robot ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • Posthuman Glossary

    Edited by Maria Hlavajova, Professor Rosi Braidotti ...
    Series series Theory in the New Humanities
    If art, science, and the humanities have shared one thing, it was their common engagement with constructions and representations of the human. Under the pressure of new contemporary concerns, however, we are experiencing a “posthuman condition”; the combination of new developments-such as the neoliberal economics of global capitalism, migration, technological advances, environmental destruction on ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • General Intellects

    Twenty-Five Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century

    by McKenzie Wark ...
    A guide to the thinkers and the ideas that will shape the futureWhat happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the Sartre or De Beauvoir of the internet age? General Intellects argues that we no longer have such singular figures, but we do have general intellects whose writing could, if read together, explain our times. Covering topics such as culture, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Inventive Methods

    The Happening of the Social

    Edited by Celia Lury, Nina Wakeford ...
    Series series CRESC
    Social and cultural research has changed dramatically in the last few years in response to changing conceptions of the empirical, an intensification of interest in interdisciplinary work, and the growing need to communicate with diverse users and audiences. Methods texts, however, have not kept pace with these changes.This volume provides a set of new approaches for the investigation of the ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • #Accelerate

    The Accelerationist Reader

    Edited by Robin Mackay, Armen Avanessian ...
    An apparently contradictory yet radically urgent collection of texts tracing the genealogy of a controversial current in contemporary philosophy.Accelerationism is the name of a contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not to protest, disrupt, critique, or détourne it, but to accelerate and exacerbate its uprooting, alienating, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Transhumanist Reader

    Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future

    Edited by Max More, Natasha Vita-More ...
    The first authoritative and comprehensive survey of the origins and current state of transhumanist thinkingThe rapid pace of emerging technologies is playing an increasingly important role in overcoming fundamental human limitations. Featuring core writings by seminal thinkers in the speculative possibilities of the posthuman condition, essays address key philosophical arguments for and against ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • New Media

    A Critical Introduction

    by Martin Lister, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant, Kieran Kelly ...
    New Media: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to the culture, history, technologies and theories of new media. Written especially for students, the book considers the ways in which 'new media' really are new, assesses the claims that a media and technological revolution has taken place and formulates new ways for media studies to respond to new technologies.The authors ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • Object-Oriented Feminism

    Edited by Katherine Behar ...
    The essays in Object-Oriented Feminism explore OOF: a feminist intervention into recent philosophical discourses—like speculative realism, object-oriented ontology (OOO), and new materialism—that take objects, things, stuff, and matter as primary. Object-oriented feminism approaches all objects from the inside-out position of being an object too, with all of its accompanying political and ethical ... Read more

    $19.99 USD