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Rated Agency
The hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care more about the moods of their shareholders than about longstanding commercial success; …
Ten Thousand Things
Ten Thousand Things explores the many forms of life, or, in ancient Chinese parlance "e;the ten thousand things"e; that life is and is becoming, in contemporary Beijing and …
Civic Storytelling
A deep history of storytelling as a civic agency, recalibrating literature's political role for the twenty-first centuryWhy did short narrative forms like the novella, fable, and …
Dissimilar Similitudes
From an acclaimed historian, a mesmerizing account of how medieval European Christians envisioned the paradoxical nature of holy objectsBetween the twelfth and the sixteenth …
Million Years of Music
What is the origin of music? In the last few decades this centuries-old puzzle has been reinvigorated by new archaeological evidence and developments in the fields of cognitive …
Screening Fears
A historical and theoretical investigation of the unexpected ways screen-based media protect and excite viewers' fears and anxieties of the worldIn this brilliant contribution to …
Walled States, Waning Sovereignty
Why, just two decades after international celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall, are so many nation-states building elaborate walls at or near their borders? Why walls now, …
Chinese Pleasure Book
This book takes up one of the most important themes in Chinese thought: the relation of pleasurable activities to bodily health and to the health of the body politic. Unlike …
Form of Becoming
The Form of Becoming offers an innovative understanding of the emergence around 1800 of the science of embryology and a new notion of development, one based on the epistemology of …
Outlaw Territories
Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency traces the relations of architecture and urbanism to forms of human unsettlement and territorial …
Everyday Life of Memorials
A timely study, erudite and exciting, about the ordinary-and oftentimes unseen-lives of memorialsMemorials are commonly studied as part of the commemorative infrastructure of …
Society Of The Spectacle
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s …