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Performing Human Rights Contested Amnesia and Aesthetic Practices in the Global South
ISBN: PB: 9783035802610, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2021
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 30 halftones
The invisibilization of political violence, its material traces, and spatial manifestations, characterizes conflict and post-conflict situations. Yet, artists, writers, and human rights activists increasingly seek to challenge this invisibility, cont...
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£40,00
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What is Contemporary Art?
ISBN: PB: 9783035801453, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2021
104 pp., 16.9x11 cm, 8 halftones
Art today is often practiced in perfect conformity with the neoliberal zeitgeist, often even denying its own radical potential".What is Contemporary Art?" lucidly examines the relationship between art and politics in our time. Addressing the heart of...
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£14,00
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Infinitely Determinable Children and Childhood in Modern Literature
ISBN: PB: 9783035803167, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Upon the "discovery of childhood", as named by Philippe Aries, bourgeois culture and modern literature marked out an arcane realm that, while scarcely accessible for adults, acted as a space for projections of the most contradictory kind and diverse...
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£20,00
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What is Anarchism? Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem and Assia Turquier-Zauberman
ISBN: PB: 9783035802269, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2020
256 pp., 21.5x13.3 cm
David Graeber is not only one of today's most important living thinkers, but also one of the most influential. He is also one of the very few engaged intellectuals who has a proven track record of effective militancy on a world scale, and his impact...
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£16,00
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Philosophy of Nietzsche Reiner Schurmann Lecture Notes
ISBN: PB: 9783035800548, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, January 2020
160 pp., 22.2x14 cm
Nietzsche praised Kant for having "annihilated Socratism", for exhibiting all ideals as essentially unattainable, and for having exposed himself to the despair of truth – all essential traits Nietzsche claimed for his own thinking. At the same time,...
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£32,00
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After the Crisis Contemporary States of Photography
ISBN: PB: 9783035802023, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2019
160 pp., 18.6x11.8 cm, 20 halftones
"After the Crisis" offers a platform for discussions between some of today's leading artists, writers, theorists, curators, and historians aimed at questioning the very status of photography today. Contributors come from the realms of critical theory...
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£20,00
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