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  • No Other Planet

    Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World

    Visions of utopia – some hopeful, others fearful – have become increasingly prevalent in recent times. This groundbreaking, timely book examines expressions of the utopian imagination with a focus on the pressing challenge of how to inhabit a climate-changed world. Forms of social dreaming are tracked across two domains: political theory and speculative fiction. The analysis aims to both uncover ... Leer más

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  • Political Violence and the Imagination

    Complicity, Memory and Resistance

    Edición de Mathias Thaler, Mihaela Mihai ...
    Using a variety of theoretical reflections and empirically grounded case studies, this book examines how certain kinds of imagination – political, artistic, historical, philosophical – help us tackle the challenge of comprehending and responding to various forms of political violence.Understanding political violence is a complex task, which involves a variety of operations, from examining the ... Leer más

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  • On the Uses and Abuses of Political Apologies

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Examining the complex nature of state apologies for past injustices, this probes the various functions they fulfil within contemporary democracies. Cutting-edge theoretical and empirical research and insightful philosophical analyses are supplemented by real-life case studies, providing a normative and balanced account of states saying 'sorry'. ... Leer más

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  • Naming Violence

    A Critical Theory of Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism

    Series Libro 52 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Much is at stake when we choose a word for a form of violence: whether a conflict is labeled civil war or genocide, whether we refer to “enhanced interrogation techniques” or to “torture,” whether a person is called a “terrorist” or a “patriot.” Do these decisions reflect the rigorous application of commonly accepted criteria, or are they determined by power structures and partisanship? How is the ... Leer más

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    A Critical Theory of Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism

    Series Libro 52 - New Directions in Critical Theory
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  • The Future

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    From the beginning of time, humans have been driven by both a fear of the unknown and a curiosity to know. We have always yearned to know what lies ahead, whether threat or safety, scarcity or abundance. Throughout human history, our forebears tried to create certainty in the unknown, by seeking to influence outcomes with sacrifices to gods, preparing for the unexpected with advice from oracles, ... Leer más

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  • Posthuman Knowledge

    The question of what defines the human, and of what is human about the humanities, have been shaken up by the radical critiques of humanism and the displacement of anthropomorphism that have gained currency in recent years, propelled in part by rapid advances in our knowledge of living systems and of their genetic and algorithmic codes coupled with the global expansion of a knowledge-intensive ... Leer más

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  • Contemporary Futurist Thought

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    Contemporary visions of the future have been shaped by hopes and fears about the effects of human technology and global capitalism on the natural world. In an era of climate change, mass extinction, and oil shortage, such visions have become increasingly catastrophic, even apocalyptic. Exploring the close relationship between science fiction, ecology, and environmentalism, the essays in Green ... Leer más

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  • No Speed Limit

    Three Essays on Accelerationism

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    Accelerationism is the bastard offspring of a furtive liaison between Marxism and science fiction. Its basic premise is that the only way out is the way through: to get beyond capitalism, we need to push its technologies to the point where they explode. This may be dubious as a political strategy, but it works as a powerful artistic program.Other authors have debated the pros and cons of ... Leer más

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