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Rockabilly
ISBN: PB: 9783035800975, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2018
80 pp., 22.2x14 cm
When a meteor crashes into greaser Rockabilly's backyard, a ripple of strange events ensues. The tattoo of a pin-up girl on his back comes to life and begins to exert her murderous control over the suburb in which he lives. His precocious teenage nei...
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£11,00
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White Noise Ballrooms
ISBN: PB: 9783035800302, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2018
224 pp., 22.2x14 cm
"The devil is at our heels... at the heart of the city's aberrations". Picture a lost city in northern England during the momentous winter of 1978 – the final winter before the onset of the Thatcher era, at the peak of the punk rock movement. A notor...
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£15,00
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Neolithic Childhood Art in a False Present, c. 1930
ISBN: HB: 9783035801064, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, September 2018
400 pp., 26.7x17.1 cm, 400 colour plates
Resonating at the heart of "Neolithic Childhood: Art in a False Present, c. 1930" is the question whether art has present, past, and future functions. The modernist assertion of the autonomy of art was intended to render superfluous art's social and...
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£49,00
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Scripted Culture Digitalization and the Cultural Public Sphere
ISBN: PB: 9783035800852, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2018
288 pp., 19.5x12.7 cm, 60 halftones
When we look at the cultural public sphere through the lens of digitalization, a paradoxical picture emerges. In some ways, the digital age seems to have brought the goals of the Enlightenment to their fullest fruition, giving us boundless and instan...
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£30,00
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Lao-Tzu, or the Way of the Dragon
ISBN: HB: 9783035800968, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2018
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...
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£10,99
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Martin Heidegger's Grouch
ISBN: HB: 9783035800524, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2018
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...
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£10,99
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Power of Material / Politics of Materiality
ISBN: PB: 9783037349878, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2018
256 pp., 21.6x16 cm, 155 colour plates, 2 line drawings, 4 halftones
Materiality has emerged as a new focus for art, design, and architecture. Where there was once the belief that the form of a work offered more capacity to bestow meaning, "New Materialism" asserts the agency of material within the artistic process, e...
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£30,00
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Present of the Future
ISBN: PB: 9783037349861, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2018
230 pp., 21.6x16 cm, 81 colour plates, 16 halftones
As the world teeters on the brink of crisis and potentially catastrophic change, outlooks for the future have come to be characterized by anxiety. The skepticism that meets utopian visions of the future has given rise to collective nostalgia for seem...
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£30,00
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