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The Great South
Edward King
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R1,308
Discovery Miles 13 080
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The Great South - A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
Edward King
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R1,269
Discovery Miles 12 690
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The Southern States of North America - A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland, Vo (Hardcover)
Edward King
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R1,310
Discovery Miles 13 100
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The tale of twins being reunited after a long separation is a trope
that has been endlessly repeated and reworked across different
cultures and throughout history, with each moment adapting the twin
plot to address its current cultural tensions. In this study,
Edward King demonstrates how twins are a means of exploring the
social implications of hyper-connectivity and the compromising
relationship between humans and digital information, their
environment and their genetics. As King demonstrates, twins tell us
about the changing forms of connectivity and power in contemporary
culture and what new conceptions of the human they present us with.
Taking account of a broad range of literary, cultural and
scientific practices, Entwined Being probes discussions surrounding
twins such as: - The way in which they appear in behavioral
genetics as a way of identifying inherited predispositions to
social media - How their faces interrupt biometric interfaces such
as facial recognition software and undermine advances in
neo-liberal surveillance systems - How they represent the uncanny
and the weird in the horror genre and how this questions ideologies
of communications media and the connectivity it enables - Their
association with telepathy and cybernetics in science fiction -
Their construction as models for entangled being in ecological
thought Drawing upon the literary and filmic works of Ken Follet,
Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Bruce Chatwin, Shelley Jackson,
Brian de Palma, Peter Greenway and David Cronenberg, as well as
science fiction literature and the television series Orphan Black,
King illuminates how twins are employed across a range of
disciplines to envision a critical re-conception of the human in
times of digital integration and ecological crisis.
The tale of twins being reunited after a long separation is a trope
that has been endlessly repeated and reworked across different
cultures and throughout history, with each moment adapting the twin
plot to address its current cultural tensions. In this study,
Edward King demonstrates how twins are a means of exploring the
social implications of hyper-connectivity and the compromising
relationship between humans and digital information, their
environment and their genetics. As King demonstrates, twins tell us
about the changing forms of connectivity and power in contemporary
culture and what new conceptions of the human they present us with.
Taking account of a broad range of literary, cultural and
scientific practices, Entwined Being probes discussions surrounding
twins such as: - The way in which they appear in behavioral
genetics as a way of identifying inherited predispositions to
social media - How their faces interrupt biometric interfaces such
as facial recognition software and undermine advances in
neo-liberal surveillance systems - How they represent the uncanny
and the weird in the horror genre and how this questions ideologies
of communications media and the connectivity it enables - Their
association with telepathy and cybernetics in science fiction -
Their construction as models for entangled being in ecological
thought Drawing upon the literary and filmic works of Ken Follet,
Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Bruce Chatwin, Shelley Jackson,
Brian de Palma, Peter Greenway and David Cronenberg, as well as
science fiction literature and the television series Orphan Black,
King illuminates how twins are employed across a range of
disciplines to envision a critical re-conception of the human in
times of digital integration and ecological crisis.
This second volume completes a critical history of the social,
political, and theoretical forces behind Marxian economics--the
only work in English to offer such comprehensive treatment.
Beginning with Marxian analyses of the Great Depression and
Stalinism, it explores the theories developed to explain the "long
boom" in Western capitalism after the Second World War. Later
chapters deal with post-Leninist theories of imperialism and
continuing controversies in value theory and the theory of
exploitation. After outlining recent work on the "second slump,"
the integration of rational-choice theory into Marxism, and the
political economy of socialism, the book concludes with a review
and evaluation of Marxian theory over the whole period since Marx's
death. Praise for the first volume: "Howard and King have done an
excellent job...One comes away with the impression of Marxian
economics being a vibrant subject, relevant to the problems of
these times and useful in practical matters."--Meghnad Desai, The
Times Higher Education Supplement Originally published in 1992. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The first volume of this critical history covers the social,
political, and theoretical forces behind the development of Marxian
economics from Marx's death in 1883 until 1929, the year marking
the onset of Stalin's "revolution from above," which subsequently
transformed the Soviet Union into a modern superpower. During these
years, Marxists in both Russia and Germany found their economic
ideas inextricably linked with practical political problems, and
treated theory as a guide to action. This book systematically
examines the important theoretical literature of the period,
including insightful works by political functionaries outside
academia--journalists, party organizers, underground activists, and
teachers in the labor movement--presented here as the primary
forgers of Marxian economic thought. Beginning with Engels's
writings, this book analyzes the work of leading Marxist economists
in the Second International, then concludes with a review of the
intellectual movements within the Marxian political economy during
the 1920s. A second volume treating the period from 1929 to the
present will follow. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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