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Rachel Adams
The New Empire of AI

As AI takes hold across the planet and wealthy nations seek to position themselves as global leaders of this new technology, the gap is widening between those who benefit from it and those who are subjuga…

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Gretel Adorno, Walter Benjamin
Correspondence 1930-1940

"We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon." So wrote Walter Benjamin to Gretel Adorno in spring 1940 fro…

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Norman Ajari,
Darkening Blackness

The concept of Afropessimism does not refer to Black people, but rather to the likelihood of white society overcoming its own negrophobia, and to a radical distrust in white narratives of inclusivity. Wha…

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Norman Ajari,
Darkening Blackness

The concept of Afropessimism does not refer to Black people, but rather to the likelihood of white society overcoming its own negrophobia, and to a radical distrust in white narratives of inclusivity. Wha…

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Ash Amin
After Nativism

Increasingly, many people in the democracies are turning to a strongarm politics for reassurance against globalisation, uncertainty and precarity. In countries ranging from the US and Britain to Brazil, I…

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Warwick Anderson
Spectacles of Waste

The modern bathroom is an ingenious compilation of locked doors, smooth porcelain, 4-ply tissue and antibacterial hand soap, but despite this miracle of indoor plumbing, we still can't bear the thought th…

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Ali M Ansari
Iran

Both revolutionary and reactionary, the Islamic Republic of Iran has long been a conundrum for Western observers. A theocracy that aspires to a popular mandate; an anti-colonial state with imperial preten…

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Robin Attfield
The Ethics of the Climate Crisis

The planet is in crisis. Time is short, but it is still possible to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions before disaster overtakes us all. Renowned philosopher Robin Attfield explains the moral reasons for …

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Jens Beckert,
How We Sold Our Future

For decades we have known about the dangers of global warming. Nevertheless, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. How can we explain our failure to take the necessary measures to stop climate ch…

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Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Sacha Loeve,
Carbon

Carbon is much more than a chemical element: it is a polymorphic entity with many faces, at once natural, cultural and social. Ranging across 10 million different compounds, carbon has as many personas in…

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Anna Bernard
Decolonizing Literature, an Introduction: Decolonizing the Curriculum

Recent efforts to diversify and decentre the literary canon taught at universities have been moderately successful. Yet this expansion of our reading lists is only the start of a broader decolonization of…

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David J Betz
The Guarded Age

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 came to symbolise the dawn of a new era of openness and connectivity. Yet today, the world is ever more divided, demarcated and -- quite literally fortified. We are liv…

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Maurits van Bever Donker
Texturing Difference

This book situates the nuanced intervention of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa within the international conjuncture of anti-colonial thought and decolonisation. It argues that the Black C…

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Maurits van Bever Donker
Texturing Difference

This book situates the nuanced intervention of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa within the international conjuncture of anti-colonial thought and decolonisation. It argues that the Black C…

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EUR 32,20*

Gargi Bhattacharyya
The Futures of Racial Capitalism

Capitalism appears to be endlessly in crisis, but without ever loosening its hold on our lives. New modes of racism and exclusion emerge, but the old ones never go away. We continue to struggle to live an…

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Philipp Blom
Subjugate the Earth

Subjugate the Earth traces the biography of a strange idea: the idea that human beings can subdue nature and rule over it. Born in Mesopotamia at the dawn of civilization, the idea of subjugating the Eart…

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Carlo Bordoni
Ethical Violence

Human civilization is founded on ethical principles, norms of behaviour that have accumulated over time. Perhaps the oldest of ethical principles is the rejection of violence, which includes the respect f…

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Pierre Bourdieu,
Forms of Capital: General Sociology, Volume 3

"Lectures at the College de France (1983-1984)."

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Pierre Bourdieu,
The Interest in Disinterestedness

A key feature of those who work for the state, in the legal system and in public services is that they claim to be putting their own personal interests aside and working in a disinterested fashion, for th…

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Ian Boyd
Science and Politics

The recent coronavirus pandemic proved that the time-old notion seems now truer than ever: that science and politics represent a clash of cultures. But why should scientists simply "stick to the facts" an…

lieferbar ab 7.1.2025.

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