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Radical Botany - Plants and Speculative Fiction (Paperback): Natania Meeker, Antonia Szabari Radical Botany - Plants and Speculative Fiction (Paperback)
Natania Meeker, Antonia Szabari
R1,016 R799 Discovery Miles 7 990 Save R217 (21%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Winner, 2019 Science Fiction & Technoculture Studies Book Prize Radical Botany excavates a tradition in which plants participate in the effort to imagine new worlds and envision new futures. Modernity, the book claims, is defined by the idea of all life as vegetal. Meeker and Szabari argue that the recognition of plants' liveliness and animation, as a result of scientific discoveries from the seventeenth century to today, has mobilized speculative creation in fiction, cinema, and art. Plants complement and challenge notions of human life. Radical Botany traces the implications of the speculative mobilization of plants for feminism, queer studies, and posthumanist thought. If, as Michael Foucault has argued, the notion of the human was born at a particular historical moment and is now nearing its end, Radical Botany reveals that this origin and endpoint are deeply informed by vegetality as a form of pre- and posthuman subjectivity. The trajectory of speculative fiction which this book traces offers insights into the human relationship to animate matter and the technological mediations through which we enter into contact with the material world. Plants profoundly shape human experience, from early modern absolutist societies to late capitalism's manipulations of life and the onset of climate change and attendant mass extinction. A major intervention in critical plant studies, Radical Botany reveals the centuries-long history by which science and the arts have combined to posit plants as the model for all animate life and thereby envision a different future for the cosmos.

Sade's Sensibilities (Paperback): Kate Parker, Norbert Sclippa Sade's Sensibilities (Paperback)
Kate Parker, Norbert Sclippa; Contributions by Mladen Kozul, Will McMorran, Natania Meeker, …
R1,309 Discovery Miles 13 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sade's Sensibilities tells a new story of one of the most enduring and controversial figures in European literature. Blending ideas about subjectivity, identity and natural philosophy with politics and pornography, D.A.F. de Sade has fascinated writers and readers for two hundred years, and his materialist account of the human condition has been widely influential in post-structuralism, nihilism, and feminism. This new collection of essays considers Sade's Enlightenment legacy, both within and beyond the narratives of radicalism and aberration that have historically marked the study of his oeuvre. From different points of view, these essays argue that Sade engaged with and influenced traditional Enlightenment paradigms-particularly those related to sensibility, subjectivity, and philosophy-as much as he resisted them. They thus recover a Sade more relevant, even foundational to our twenty-first century understanding of modernity, selfhood, and community. In Sade's Sensibilities Sade is no longer a solitary, peripheral radical, but an Enlightenment philosopher in his own right.

Sade's Sensibilities (Hardcover): Kate Parker, Norbert Sclippa Sade's Sensibilities (Hardcover)
Kate Parker, Norbert Sclippa; Contributions by Mladen Kozul, Will McMorran, Natania Meeker, …
R2,281 Discovery Miles 22 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sade's Sensibilities tells a new story of one of the most enduring and controversial figures in European literature. Blending ideas about subjectivity, identity and natural philosophy with politics and pornography, D.A.F. de Sade has fascinated writers and readers for two hundred years, and his materialist account of the human condition has been widely influential in post-structuralism, nihilism, and feminism. This new collection of essays considers Sade's Enlightenment legacy, both within and beyond the narratives of radicalism and aberration that have historically marked the study of his oeuvre. From different points of view, these essays argue that Sade engaged with and influenced traditional Enlightenment paradigms-particularly those related to sensibility, subjectivity, and philosophy-as much as he resisted them. They thus recover a Sade more relevant, even foundational to our twenty-first century understanding of modernity, selfhood, and community. In Sade's Sensibilities Sade is no longer a solitary, peripheral radical, but an Enlightenment philosopher in his own right.

Women Imagine Change - A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance from 600 B.C.E. to Present (Hardcover): Natania Meeker,... Women Imagine Change - A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance from 600 B.C.E. to Present (Hardcover)
Natania Meeker, Jean F. O'Barr, Eugenia DeLamotte C
R4,676 Discovery Miles 46 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This global, multicultural anthology shows how women from some thirty countries, across twenty-six centuries, have found ways to resist oppression and gain power over their lives. Organized around themes of concern to contemporary readers, Women Imagine Change explores: relationships between women's sexuality and spirituality; women's interlinked struggles to control their labor and education; their work reshaping representations of gender; and their varied translations of knowledge into power. Extensive introductions combine a broad theoretical perspective on gender and resistance with vivid biographical context.
Not only do the writings show women's resistance from an historical perspective; they also offer crucial insight into questions women are posing today about the relationships between their own power, the power of the various groups to which they belong, and the larger systems of power they confront in the world around them.

Women Imagine Change - A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance from 600 B.C.E. to Present (Paperback, New): Natania... Women Imagine Change - A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance from 600 B.C.E. to Present (Paperback, New)
Natania Meeker, Jean F. O'Barr, Eugenia DeLamotte C
R2,322 Discovery Miles 23 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Women Imagine Change shows how women all over the world, across a span of 2,600 years, have found ways to resist oppression and gain power over their lives. Organized around themes of concern to contemporary readers, this genuinely global, multicultural anthology presents women from some thirty countries, speaking from their vivid, diverse life experiences.
Historical selections are chosen for relevance to current women's issues, and include writings by: Florence Nightingale, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hildegard of Bingen, Paula Gunn Allen, Susan B. Anthony, Ida B. Wells Barnett, Angela Davis, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Audre Lorde, Fatima Mernissi, Cherrie Moraga, Hiratsuka Raicho, Margaret Sanger, Mab Segrest and Ruby Thompson.

Radical Botany - Plants and Speculative Fiction (Hardcover): Natania Meeker, Antonia Szabari Radical Botany - Plants and Speculative Fiction (Hardcover)
Natania Meeker, Antonia Szabari
R2,860 R2,557 Discovery Miles 25 570 Save R303 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Winner, 2019 Science Fiction & Technoculture Studies Book Prize Radical Botany excavates a tradition in which plants participate in the effort to imagine new worlds and envision new futures. Modernity, the book claims, is defined by the idea of all life as vegetal. Meeker and Szabari argue that the recognition of plants' liveliness and animation, as a result of scientific discoveries from the seventeenth century to today, has mobilized speculative creation in fiction, cinema, and art. Plants complement and challenge notions of human life. Radical Botany traces the implications of the speculative mobilization of plants for feminism, queer studies, and posthumanist thought. If, as Michael Foucault has argued, the notion of the human was born at a particular historical moment and is now nearing its end, Radical Botany reveals that this origin and endpoint are deeply informed by vegetality as a form of pre- and posthuman subjectivity. The trajectory of speculative fiction which this book traces offers insights into the human relationship to animate matter and the technological mediations through which we enter into contact with the material world. Plants profoundly shape human experience, from early modern absolutist societies to late capitalism's manipulations of life and the onset of climate change and attendant mass extinction. A major intervention in critical plant studies, Radical Botany reveals the centuries-long history by which science and the arts have combined to posit plants as the model for all animate life and thereby envision a different future for the cosmos.

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