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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 >>>     sort list by title | author You Are Not a Gadget A Manifesto Jaron Lanier A programmer, musician, and father of virtual reality technology, Jaron Lanier was a pioneer in digital media, and among the first to predict the revolutionary changes it would bring to our commerce and culture. Now, with the... Infinite City A San Francisco Atlas Rebecca Solnit What makes a place? Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers, cartographers, and... A Lover's Discourse Fragments Roland Barthes A Lover’s Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented use of the tools of structuralism to explore the whimsical phenomenon of love. Rich with references ranging from Goethe’s Werther to Winnicott, from... Virtual Words Language on the Edge of Science and Technology Jonathon Keats The technological realm provides an unusually active laboratory not only for new ideas and products but also for the remarkable linguistic innovations that accompany and describe them. How else would words like qubit (a unit of quantum information)... A Thousand Machines A Concise Philosophy of the Machine as Social Movement Gerald Raunig In this "concise philosophy of the machine," Gerald Raunig provides a historical and critical backdrop to a concept proposed forty years ago by the French philosophers Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze: the machine, not as a technical device and... Anti-Oedipus Capitalism and Schizophrenia Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari An "introduction to the nonfascist life" (Michel Foucault, from the Preface) When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and "a work of heretical madness" by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set... The Parallax View Slavoj Žižek Philosophical and theological analysis and detailed readings of literature, cinema, and music co-exist with lively anecdotes and obscene jokes in an exploration of the territory Zizek knows best. In this treatise, he delves into the concept of... A Little History of the World E. H. Gombrich In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks... Being and Time Martin Heidegger "What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to explain the basic problems of existence. A central influence on later philosophy, literature, art... The Gift Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World Lewis Hyde By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this... Two Regimes of Madness, Revised Edition Texts and Interviews 1975-1995 Gilles Deleuze People tend to confuse winning freedom with conversion to capitalism. It is doubtful that the joys of capitalism are enough to free peoples.... The American "revolution" failed long ago, long before the Soviet one. Revolutionary situations and... The Ethics of Identity Kwame Anthony Appiah Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we... The Writer of Modern Life Essays on Charles Baudelaire Walter Benjamin Walter Benjamin's essays on the great French lyric poet Charles Baudelaire revolutionized not just the way we think about Baudelaire, but our understanding of modernity and modernism as well. In these essays, Benjamin challenges the image of... Imperial San Francisco Urban Power, Earthly Ruin Gray Brechin First published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent families--the Hearsts, de Youngs, Spreckelses, and others--who gained power through mining, ranching, water and... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 >>>