Duke University Press: 2463 books
Art for People's Sake
Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965-1975
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
In the 1960s and early 1970s, Chicago witnessed a remarkable flourishing of visual arts associated with the Black Arts Movement. From the painting of murals as a way to reclaim public space and the establishment of independent community art centers to the work of the AFRICOBRA collective and Black...
The Afterlife of Images
Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2008
In 1739 China’s emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Those images made their way to Europe, where they were interpreted as indicative of the ill health and medical backwardness of...
by Lynn Meskell, Michael Rowlands, Fred R. Myers
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2005
Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief—whether religious or secular—have ascribed wisdom to those who see reality as that which transcends the merely material. Yet, as the studies collected here show, the immaterial is not easily separated from the material....
Sisters in the Life
A History of Out African American Lesbian Media-Making
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
From experimental shorts and web series to Hollywood blockbusters and feminist porn, the work of African American lesbian filmmakers has made a powerful contribution to film history. But despite its importance, this work has gone largely unacknowledged by cinema historians and cultural critics. Assembling...
Undead TV
Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2007
When the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired in 2003, fans mourned the death of the hit television series. Yet the show has lived on through syndication, global distribution, DVD release, and merchandising, as well as in the memories of its devoted viewers. Buffy stands out from much entertainment...
by Tina M. Campt
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
In Listening to Images Tina M. Campt explores a way of listening closely to photography, engaging with lost archives of historically dismissed photographs of black subjects taken throughout the black diaspora. Engaging with photographs through sound, Campt looks beyond what one usually sees and attunes...
by Achille Mbembe, Philippe Rekacewicz, Andreas Huyssen
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2001
Edited by one of the most prominent scholars in the field and including a distinguished group of contributors, this collection of essays makes a striking intervention in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization. While including discussions about what globalization...
The Concept in Crisis
Reading Capital Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
The publication of Reading Capital—by Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey, and Jacques Rancière—in 1965 marked a key intervention in Marxist philosophy and critical theory, bringing forth a stunning array of concepts that continue to inspire philosophical reflection...
Post-Fascist Fantasies
Psychoanalysis, History, and the Literature of East Germany
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1997
Post-Fascist Fantasies examines the cultural function of the novels of communist authors in East Germany from a psychoanalytic angle. Various critics have argued that these socialist realist fictions were monolithic attempts to translate Communist dogma into the realm of aesthetics. Julia Hell argues...
Memory Bytes
History, Technology, and Digital Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2004
Digital culture is often characterized as radically breaking with past technologies, practices, and ideologies rather than as reflecting or incorporating them. Memory Bytes seeks to counter such ahistoricism, arguing for the need to understand digital culture—and its social, political, and ethical...
by Ranjan Ghosh, J. Hillis Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Thinking Literature across Continents finds Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller—two thinkers from different continents, cultures, training, and critical perspectives—debating and reflecting upon what literature is and why it matters. Ghosh and Miller do not attempt to formulate a joint theory of...
Visual Time
The Image in History
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Visual Time offers a rare consideration of the idea of time in art history. Non-Western art histories currently have an unprecedented prominence in the discipline. To what extent are their artistic narratives commensurate with those told about Western art? Does time run at the same speed in all places?...
The Mangle in Practice
Science, Society, and Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
In The Mangle of Practice (1995), the renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering argued for a reconceptualization of research practice as a “mangle,” an open-ended, evolutionary, and performative interplay of human and non-human agency. While Pickering’s ideas originated in science and...
After Eden
The Evolution of Human Domination
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
When did the human species turn against the planet that we depend on for survival? Human industry and consumption of resources have altered the climate, polluted the water and soil, destroyed ecosystems, and rendered many species extinct, vastly increasing the likelihood of an ecological catastrophe....