Duke University Press: 2463 books
Biocapital
The Constitution of Postgenomic Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2006
Biocapital is a major theoretical contribution to science studies and political economy. Grounding his analysis in a multi-sited ethnography of genomic research and drug development marketplaces in the United States and India, Kaushik Sunder Rajan argues that contemporary biotechnologies such as genomics...
Global Pharmaceuticals
Ethics, Markets, Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2006
In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical. In others people do not have access to basic or life-saving drugs. Individuals struggle to afford medications; whole populations are neglected, considered too poor to constitute profitable markets for the development and distribution...
Pikachu s Global Adventure
The Rise and Fall of Pokémon
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
Initially developed in Japan by Nintendo as a computer game, Pokémon swept the globe in the late 1990s. Based on a narrative in which a group of children capture, train, and do battle with over a hundred imaginary creatures, Pokémon quickly diversified into an array of popular products including...
How Would You Like to Pay?
How Technology Is Changing the Future of Money
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
From Bitcoin to Apple Pay, big changes seem to be afoot in the world of money. Yet the use of coins and paper bills has persisted for 3,000 years. In How Would You Like to Pay?, leading anthropologist Bill Maurer narrates money's history, considers its role in everyday life, and discusses the implications...
The Difference Aesthetics Makes
On the Humanities “After Man”
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
In The Difference Aesthetics Makes cultural critic Kandice Chuh asks what the humanities might be and do if organized around what she calls “illiberal humanism” instead of around the Western European tradition of liberal humanism that undergirds the humanities in their received form. Recognizing...
Vampire Nation
Violence as Cultural Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
Vampire Nation is a nuanced analysis of the cultural and political rhetoric framing ‘the serbs’ as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century, as well as the cultural imaginaries and rhetorical mechanisms that inform nationalist discourses more broadly. Tomislav Z. Longinović...
by Lisa Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2015
In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. Reading across archives, canons,...
Territories of the Soul
Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Nadia Ellis attends to African diasporic belonging as it comes into being through black expressive culture. Living in the diaspora, Ellis asserts, means existing between claims to land and imaginative flights unmoored from the earth—that is, to live within the territories of the soul. Drawing on...
Spill
Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. In this poetic work inspired by Hortense Spillers, Gumbs...
The Right to Look
A Counterhistory of Visuality
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
In The Right to Look, Nicholas Mirzoeff develops a comparative decolonial framework for visual culture studies, the field that he helped to create and shape. Casting modernity as an ongoing contest between visuality and countervisuality, or “the right to look,” he explains how visuality sutures...
Records Ruin the Landscape
John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
John Cage's disdain for records was legendary. He repeatedly spoke of the ways in which recorded music was antithetical to his work. In Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs argues that, following Cage, new genres in experimental and avant-garde music in the 1960s were particularly ill suited to...
Art beyond Itself
Anthropology for a Society without a Story Line
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
First published in Spanish in 2010, Art beyond Itself is Néstor García Canclini's deft assessment of contemporary art. The renowned cultural critic suggests that, ideally, art is the place of imminence, the place where we glimpse something just about to happen. Yet, as he demonstrates, defining...
Shine
The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
In Jamaican dancehalls competition for the video camera's light is stiff, so much so that dancers sometimes bleach their skin to enhance their visibility. In the Bahamas, tuxedoed students roll into prom in tricked-out sedans, staging grand red-carpet entrances that are designed to ensure they are...
by Diana Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
"Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance;...