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Metamodernism The Future of Theory
ISBN: PB: 9780226786650, ISBN: HB: 9780226602295, University of Chicago Press, July 2021
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality of disciplinary objects and categories. The coherence of defined autonomous categories – such as religion, science, and art – has collapsed under the weight of postmodern critique...
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Architectures of Embodiment Disclosing New Intelligibilities
ISBN: PB: 9783035801996, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book began within Architecture of Embodiment, a research environment focused on the inquiry of architecture from an enactivist perspective and through aesthetic practices. Primarily, Architecture of Embodiment does not aim to find answers to its...
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Scientific History Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War
ISBN: HB: 9780226761381, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
Increasingly, scholars in the humanities are calling for a reengagement with the natural sciences. Taking their cues from recent breakthroughs in genetics and the neurosciences, advocates of "big history" are calling for a reassessment of long-held a...
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"Here Lies" preceded by "The Indian Culture"
ISBN: PB: 9783035803648, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2021
108 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Here Lies" preceded by "The Indian Culture" collects two of Antonin Artaud's foremost poetic works from the last period of his life. He wrote both works soon after his release from the psychiatric hospital of Rodez and his return to Paris, and they...
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Constraint-Based Syntax and Semantics Papers in Honor of Daniele Godard
ISBN: PB: 9781684000463, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2021
215 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This volume is devoted to the syntax and semantics of various languages, studied with models based on constraints. Both French and international linguists present their work in tribute to Daniele Godard, emeritus research director at the Centre natio...
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Claudia Wieser Generations
ISBN: HB: 9780935573633, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, January 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 157 colour plates
Claudia Wieser's artistic practice draws from history, architecture, and design, often playing with time and space. Influenced by artists who embraced spirituality – such as Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee – she considers abstraction...
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Crafting the Word Writings from Manipur
ISBN: HB: 9789385932809, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2021
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Manipur has a rich tradition of folk and oral narratives, as well as written texts dating from as early as in eighth century AD. But it was only in the second half of the twentieth century that women began writing and publishing their works. Today, w...
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Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric"
ISBN: PB: 9780226789903, ISBN: HB: 9780226591629, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For more than two thousand years. Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric" has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhetoric is, as well as the three kinds of rhetoric (...
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How Green Became Good Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens
ISBN: PB: 9780226739045, ISBN: HB: 9780226738994, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
As projects like Manhattan's High Line, Chicago's 606, China's eco-cities, and Ethiopia's tree-planting efforts show, cities around the world are devoting serious resources to urban greening. Formerly neglected urban spaces and new high-end developme...
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£76,00
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Nature's Mirror How Taxidermists Shaped America's Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species
ISBN: HB: 9780226730318, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones
It may be surprising to us now, but the taxidermists who filled the museums, zoos, and aquaria of the twentieth century were also among the first to become aware of the devastating effects of careless human interaction with the natural world.   Witne...
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