Zone Books
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Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150-1750
$37.00 Read moreWonders and the Order of Nature is about the ways in which European naturalists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonder and wonders, the passion and its objects, to envision th
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Daston, Lorraine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0942299914
- Language: English
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The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning
$29.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking account of the origin and place of meaning in the earthly biosphere
What is meaning? How does it arise? Where is it found in the world? In recent years, philosophers and scientists ha- Author: Tomlinson, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1942130791
- Language: English
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The Life of Forms in Art
$24.95 Read moreIn this beautiful meditation on the art-historical problem of style, Henri Focillon (1881-1943) describes how art forms change over time. Although he argues that the development of art is irreducible
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Focillon, Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 11 1992
- ISBN10: 0942299574
- Language: English
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Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution
$22.95 Read moreNeoliberal rationality — ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and culture — remakes everything and everyone in the image of homo oeconomicus. What happens w
- Series: Zone / Near Futures
- Author: Brown, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1935408542
- Language: English
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Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
$31.00 Add to cartFollowing in the wake of his groundbreaking work War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a brilliant, radical synthesis of historical development of the last thousand years. A
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: De Landa, Manuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 11 2000
- ISBN10: 0942299329
- Language: English
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Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology
$26.95 Read moreIn this seminal, founding work of political anthropology, Pierre Clastres takes on some of the most abiding and essential questions of human civilization: What is power? What is society? How, among al
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Clastres, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0942299019
- Language: English
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Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life
$24.95 Add to cartPure Immanence collects the essays of Gilles Deleuze on a complex theme at the heart of his philosophy. In his last piece of writing, included here, Deleuze gives a simple name to this problem: “a lif
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 22 2005
- ISBN10: 1890951250
- Language: English
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The Society of the Spectacle
$26.95 Add to cartFew 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 to the present, the
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Debord, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 11 1995
- ISBN10: 0942299795
- Language: English
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The Accursed Share, Volume I
$27.95 Add to cartIn this important work, Georges Bataille uses his novel economic theory as the basis for an incisive inquiry into the very nature of civilization. He introduces here his concept of the accursed share,
- Series: Zone Books #1
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 15 1991
- ISBN10: 0942299116
- Language: English
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The Accursed Share, Volumes II & III
$37.00 Add to cartGeorges Bataille considered The Accursed Share, his radical critique of economic theories based on rational categories of need, scarcity, and utility, his most important project. In Volume I, he annou
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 11 1993
- ISBN10: 0942299213
- Language: English
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Masochism
$27.95 Add to cartIn his stunning essay Coldness and Cruelty Gilles Deleuze provides a rigorous and informed philosophical examination of the work of late nineteenth-century German novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. D
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 05 1991
- ISBN10: 0942299558
- Language: English
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The Civil Contract of Photography
$31.00 Add to cartIn this groundbreaking work, Ariella Azoulay thoroughly revises our understanding of the ethical status of photography. It must, she insists, be understood in its inseparability from the many catastro
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Azoulay, Ariella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 586
- Publish Date: December 18 2012
- ISBN10: 1890951897
- Language: English
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Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism
$22.95 Add to cartWhy was the discourse of family values so pivotal to the conservative and free-market revolution of the 1980s and why has it continued to exert such a profound influence on American political life? Wh
- Series: Zone / Near Futures
- Author: Cooper, Melinda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1935408348
- Language: English
