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Fiction

Radio Works: 1946-48

Artaud Antonin

ISBN: PB: 9783035802504, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, September 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Following his release from the Rodez asylum, Antonin Artaud decided he wanted his new work to connect with a vast public audience, and he chose to record radio broadcasts in order to carry through that aim. That determination led him to his most expe...

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Contemporary Art

TO LOSE YOUR HEAD (IDOLS) Catalonia in Venice

Azara Pedro

ISBN: PB: 9788494423444, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 200 halftones

For their 2019 Venice Biennale pavilion, Catalonia presented an exhibition exploring the life of public statues and reflecting on the capacity of artworks to possess agency. The project considers the often-intense relationship that forms between huma...

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Political Science

Herodotus in the Anthropocene

Alden Schlosser Joel

ISBN: PB: 9780226704845, ISBN: HB: 9780226704708, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We are living in the age of the Anthropocene, in which human activities are recognized for effecting potentially catastrophic environmental change. In this book, Joel Alden Schlosser argues that our current state of affairs calls for a creative polit...

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General

Intimate Disconnections Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan

Alexy Allison

ISBN: PB: 9780226700953, ISBN: HB: 9780226699653, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 2 tables

In many ways, divorce is a quintessentially personal decision – the choice to leave a marriage that causes harm or feels unfulfilling to the two people involved. But anyone who has gone through a divorce knows the additional public dimensions of brea...

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Political Science

Difference without Domination Pursuing Justice in Diverse Democracies

Allen Danielle, Somanathan Rohini

ISBN: PB: 9780226681221, ISBN: HB: 9780226681191, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 10 line drawings

Around the globe, democracy appears broken. With political and socioeconomic inequality on the rise, we are faced with the urgent question of how to better distribute power, opportunity, and wealth in diverse modern societies. This volume confronts t...

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Poetry

Artaud the Momo and Other Major Poetry

Artaud Antonin

ISBN: PB: 9783035802351, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2020
160 pp., 18.4x12 cm

"Artaud the Momo" is Antonin Artaud's most extraordinary poetic work from the brief final phase of his life, from his return to Paris in 1946 after nine years of incarceration in French psychiatric institutions to his death in 1948. This work is an u...

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Technology & Engineering

Culture Studies

American Robot A Cultural History

Abnet Dustin A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226692715, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones

Although they entered the world as pure science fiction, robots are now very much a fact of everyday life. Whether a space-age cyborg, a chess-playing automaton, or simply the smartphone in our pocket, robots have long been a symbol of the fraught an...

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Poetry

Raft of Flame

Alvarez Desiree

ISBN: PB: 9781632430816, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, March 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

A painter and poet, Desiree Alvarez engages with the powerful forces of lyric and rhythm to create a collection that moves across time and place. Inspired by Lorca's passionate cante jondo, or "deep song," and her own family history with Andalusian f...

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Political Science

Power in Modernity Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King's Two Bodies

Ariail Reed Isaac

ISBN: PB: 9780226689456, ISBN: HB: 9780226689319, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

In "Power in Modernity", Isaac Ariail Reed proposes a bold new theory of power that describes overlapping networks of delegation and domination. Chains of power and their representation, linking together groups and individuals across time and space,...

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History of Art

Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 54, 2019

Allon Niv, D'Alessandro Stephanie, Graff Sarah, Najat Haidar Navina, Holcomb Melanie, Leona Marco, Mahon Dorothy, McDonald Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226676968, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

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