Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization
If you like book Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization here is the list of books you may also like
Buy this book on AmazonModernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization similar books
-
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality--the personal and …
Buy this book on Amazon -
Cruel Optimism
A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
Orientalism
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.
Buy this book on Amazon
In this… -
The Society of the Spectacle
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the prese…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Manifesto cyborg. Donne, tecnologie e biopolitiche del corpo
Dopo aver tematizzato l'esistenza del cyborg, "creatura della realtà sociale econtemporaneamente della fiction", il libro suggerisce l'inevitabilità dellasua presenza al centro della riflessione femmi…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
-
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished …
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
-
The Queer Art of Failure
The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known ac…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
-
-
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Trop…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Weird and the Eerie
What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new book, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The Weird and the Ee…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
-
Who’s Afraid of Gender?
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world.
Buy this book on Amazon
Judith Butler, the groundbreaking thinker whose iconic book Gender Trouble redefi…