Télécharger le livre :  Objects Untimely

Objects generate time; time does not generate or change objects. That is the central thesis of this book by the philosopher Graham Harman and the archaeologist Christopher Witmore, who defend radical positions in their respective fields. Against a current and pervasive...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-03-21

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Télécharger le livre :  Aesthetics of Pop Music

In this short book, the leading German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen puts forward a fresh and original account of pop music. He argues that pop music is not so much a form of music as a constellation of different media channels, social spaces and behavioural...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-03-14
Collection : Theory Redux
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Télécharger le livre :  The Conservative Party After Brexit

The Conservative Party has long laid claim to being the world’s most successful political party, not least because it is also one of the most adaptable, often appearing to do and say pretty much whatever it takes to win. But has it now shot itself in the foot by trying...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-03-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Left Is Not Woke

If you’re woke, you’re left.If you’re left, you’re woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you’re one you must be the other. That, Susan Neiman argues, is a dangerous mistake. The confusion arises because woke is fuelled by traditionally leftwing emotions: the wish to...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-03-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Cancelled

Right now, someone, somewhere is being cancelled. Off-the-cuff tweets or "harmless" office banter have the potential to wreck lives. The Left condemns theRight and the bigotry of the old elites. TheRight complains about brain-dead political correctness. In reality, both...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-03-09

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Télécharger le livre :  The Internet of Animals

'The internet is made of cats' is a half-jokingly made claim. Today, animals of all shapes and sizes inhabit our digital spaces, including companion animals, wildlife, feral animals and livestock. In this book, Deborah Lupton explores how digital technologies and...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-03-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Money for Beginners

Money is mysterious. We love it, we hate it, but few people can tell you what the heck it really is. Wouldn't it be good to get out of the fog? This book will help you understand both the way money works and how to leverage its power. The authors take you on an...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-03-06

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Télécharger le livre :  If Auschwitz is Nothing

Ever since the end of World War II, when the sheer enormity of the Nazi crime against the Jews became apparent, there have been repeated attempts to deny that the Holocaust really happened. The existence of gas chambers was questioned and the testimony of survivors was...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-03-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Russia's War

In the early hours of 24 February 2022, Russian forces attacked Ukraine. The brutality of the Russian assault has horrified the world. But Russians themselves appear to be watching an entirely different war – one in which they are the courageous underdogs and...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-02-27

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Télécharger le livre :  Absence

Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By contrast, Far Eastern thought is centred not on essence but on absence. The fundamental topos of Far Eastern thinking is not...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-02-27

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Télécharger le livre :  Land Sickness

As a heatwave hits Paris, the author's entire existence is disrupted and disoriented by the effects of climate change. All his normal reference points are destroyed. To escape the heat and his growing anxieties, he flees to the small Mediterranean island of...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-02-27

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Télécharger le livre :  Life Is Not Useful

Indigenous leader and activist Ailton Krenak reminds us that we must awaken from the comatose senselessness we have been immersed in since the beginning of the modern colonial project, where order, progress, development, consumerism, and capitalism have taken over our...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-02-22

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Télécharger le livre :  History and Politics

A victim of the Nazis, then the communists. Twice a refugee, yet always remaining a committed socialist. In countless ways, Zygmunt Bauman lived the political upheavals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He was an actor within them. Bauman’s own lived history...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-02-22

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Télécharger le livre :  Naked Feminism

Is it right that, despite the promises of feminism, women’s bodies remain at the mercy of state, society and religion? Should a scantily clad woman, or a promiscuous one, be worth less than a fully covered woman, or a chaste one? Are being sexy and being smart really...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-02-17

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Télécharger le livre :  Governance

Governance is an easy-to read introduction to an increasingly important concept in political science. It provides a clear overview of how the concept has been used in the sub-fields of public administration and public policy, international relations, European studies...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-02-13
Collection : Key Concepts
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Télécharger le livre :  World Poverty and Human Rights

Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, adequate shelter, literacy, and basic health care. One third of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-02-10

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Télécharger le livre :  What is Intergenerational Justice?

Can people alive now have duties to future generations, the unborn millions? If so, what do we owe them? What does “justice” mean in an intergenerational context, both between people who will coexist at some point, and between generations that will never overlap? In...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-01-24

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Télécharger le livre :  Israel / Palestine

What explains the peculiar intensity and evident intractability of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Of all the ""hot spots"" in the world today, the apparently endless clash between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East seems unique in its longevity and resistance to...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-01-19

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Télécharger le livre :  Digital Timescapes

Digital technologies are having a profound effect on the temporalities of individuals, households and organisations. We now expect to be able to instantly source a vast array of information at any time and from anywhere, as well as buy goods with the click of a button...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-01-16

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Télécharger le livre :  Sorting Machines

It is commonly thought that, thanks to globalization, nation-state borders are becoming increasingly porous. Steffen Mau shows that this view is misleading: borders are not getting more permeable today, but rather are being turned into powerful sorting machines....
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-01-12

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