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Value in Marx

The Persistence of Value in a More-Than-Capitalist World

by George Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013

Long prone to dogmatic disagreement, the question of value in Marx’s thought—what value is, the purpose it serves, its application to real-world capitalism—requires renewal if Marx’s work is to remain vibrant. In Value in Marx, George Henderson offers a lucid rereading of Marx that strips value...
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Improper Names

Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous

by Marco Deseriis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

Improper Names offers a genealogy and theory of the “improper name,” which author Marco Deseriis defines as the adoption of the same pseudonym by organized collectives, affinity groups, and individual authors. Although such names are often invented to pursue a specific social or political agenda,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019

The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether   Contending with recent developments like the shocking 2016 U.S. Presidential election, the radical transformation of the social web, and passionate debates about the future of data in higher education, Debates in the Digital Humanities...
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by Kenneth J. Saltman
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018

How “innovative” finance schemes skim public wealth while hijacking public governance Charter school expansion. Vouchers. Scholarship tax credit programs. The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance offers a new social theory to explain why these and other privatization policies and programs...
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Proust And Signs

The Complete Text

by Gilles Deleuze
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014

In a remarkable instance of literary and philosophical interpretation, the incomparable Gilles Deleuze reads Marcel Proust’s work as a narrative of an apprenticeship—more precisely, the apprenticeship of a man of letters. Considering the search to be one directed by an experience of signs, in...
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by Davide Panagia
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016

Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics is an invitation to culture makers, political thinkers of all kinds, and everyday spectators to reconsider their love of the world of appearances. Inspired by Jacques Rancière’s Ten Theses on Politics and work by Hannah Arendt, Stanley Cavell, and Roland Barthes,...
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The Price of Thirst

Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos

by Karen Piper
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014

“There's Money in Thirst,” reads a headline in the New York Times. The CEO of Nestlé, purveyor of bottled water, heartily agrees. It is important to give water a market value, he says in a promotional video, so “we're all aware that it has a price.” But for those who have no access to clean...
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Civil Resistance

Comparative Perspectives on Nonviolent Struggle

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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015

In the past quarter century the world has witnessed dramatic social and political transformations, due in part to an upsurge in civil resistance. There have been significant uprisings around the globe, including the toppling of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the Color Revolutions, the Arab Spring,...
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Biko's Ghost

The Iconography of Black Consciousness

by Shannen L. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015

“When you say, ‘Black is Beautiful,’ what in fact you are saying . . . is: Man, you are okay as you are; begin to look upon yourself as a human being.” With such statements, Stephen Biko became the voice of Black Consciousness. And with Biko’s brutal death in the custody of the South African...
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Against Purity

Living Ethically in Compromised Times

by Alexis Shotwell
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016

The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. Aiming to stand aside from the mess can produce a seemingly satisfying self-righteousness in the scant moments we achieve it, but since it is ultimately impossible, individual purity will always disappoint. Might it be better...
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Repainting the Walls of Lunda

Information Colonialism and Angolan Art

by Delinda Collier
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016

Repainting the Walls of Lunda chronicles the publication and dissemination of an anthropology book, Paredes Pintadas da Lunda (Painted Walls of Lunda), which was published in Portuguese in 1953. The book featured illustrations of wall murals and sand drawings of the Chokwe peoples of northeastern Angola....
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Peace Corps Fantasies

How Development Shaped the Global Sixties

by Molly Geidel
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

To tens of thousands of volunteers in its first decade, the Peace Corps was “the toughest job you’ll ever love.” In the United States’ popular imagination to this day, it is a symbol of selfless altruism and the most successful program of John F. Kennedy’s presidency. But in her provocative...
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The Fourth Eye

M ori Media in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

From the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi between Indigenous and settler cultures to the emergence of the first-ever state-funded Māori television network, New Zealand has been a hotbed of Indigenous concerns. Given its history of colonization, coping with biculturalism is central to New Zealand life....
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Inheriting Possibility

Social Reproduction and Quantification in Education

by Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

How has the dominant social scientific paradigm limited our understanding of the impact of inherited economic resources, social privilege, and sociocultural practices on multigenerational inequality? In what ways might multiple forces of social difference haunt quantitative measurements of ability such...
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