Rachele Dini: 6 books

Book cover of Consumerism, Waste, and Re-Use in Twentieth-Century Fiction
by Rachele Dini
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016

This book examines manufactured waste and remaindered humans in literary critiques of capitalism by twentieth-century writers associated with the historical avant-garde and their descendants. Building on recent work in new materialism and waste studies, Rachele Dini reads waste as a process or phase...
Book cover of Walter Benjamin's The Work Of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
by Rachele Dini
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction combats traditional art criticism’s treatment of artworks as fixed, unchanging mystical objects. For Walter Benjamin, the consequences of addressing a work of art in this manner have a wider resonance: closed off from any active visual or tactile...
Book cover of Black Skin, White Masks
by Rachele Dini
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

Frantz Fanon’s explosive Black Skin, White Masks is a merciless exposé of the psychological damage done by colonial rule across the world. Using Fanon’s incisive analytical abilities to expose the consequences of colonialism on the psyches of colonized peoples, it is both a crucial text in post-colonial...
Book cover of History of Sexuality
by Rachele Dini, Chiara Briganti
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017

Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century’s most innovative and wide-ranging thinkers. The qualities that made him one of the most-read and influential theorists of the modern age find full expression in  History of Sexuality, the last project Foucault was able to complete before his...
Book cover of The Second Sex
by Rachele Dini
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

Simone de Beauvoir’s 1949 book The Second Sex is a masterpiece of feminist criticism and philosophy. An incendiary take on the place of women in post-war French society, it helped define major trends in feminist thought for the rest of the 20th century, and its influence is still felt today. The...
Book cover of Discipline and Punish
by Meghan Kallman, Rachele Dini
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century’s most innovative thinkers – and his work on Discipline and Punish was so original and offered models so useful to other scholars that the book now ranks among the most influential academic works ever published. Foucault’s aim is to...
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