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Slavoj Zizek is the most popular and discussed philosopher in the
world today. His prolific writings - across philosophy,
psychoanalysis, political and social theory, film, music and
religion - always engage and provoke. The power of his ideas, the
breadth of his references, his capacity for playfulness and
confrontation, his willingness to change his mind and his refusal
fundamentally to alter his argument - all have worked to build an
extraordinary international readership as well as to elicit much
critical reaction. The Zizek Dictionary brings together leading
Zizek commentators from across the world to present a companion and
guide to Zizekian thought. Each of the 60 short essays examines a
key term and, crucially, explores its development across Zizek's
work and how it fits in with other concepts and concerns. The
dictionary will prove invaluable both to readers coming to Zizek
for the first time and to those already embarked on the Zizekian
journey.
Slavoj Zizek is the most popular and discussed philosopher in the
world today. His prolific writings - across philosophy,
psychoanalysis, political and social theory, film, music and
religion - always engage and provoke. The power of his ideas, the
breadth of his references, his capacity for playfulness and
confrontation, his willingness to change his mind and his refusal
fundamentally to alter his argument - all have worked to build an
extraordinary international readership as well as to elicit much
critical reaction. The Zizek Dictionary brings together leading
Zizek commentators from across the world to present a companion and
guide to Zizekian thought. Each of the 60 short essays examines a
key term and, crucially, explores its development across Zizek's
work and how it fits in with other concepts and concerns. The
dictionary will prove invaluable both to readers coming to Zizek
for the first time and to those already embarked on the Zizekian
journey.
"Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star
Press"
"" Modeled after the famed TV sci-fi series "The X-Files," "The
&-Files" gathers together a covert body of documents following
the long and often controversial career of "Art & Text," one of
the landmark contemporary art magazines of the 1980s and 1990s.
Founded in Melbourne, Australia, in 1981 by Paul Taylor (1957-92),
who soon moved to New York City to make his mark as an art critic,
the magazine went on to become one of a handful of international
art magazines that succeeded in capturing the turmoil and passing
brilliance of that period of postmodernism.
Perceived through the eyes and ears of its longtime publisher and
editor Paul Foss, "The &-Files" is comprised of an open letter,
a lengthy interview, two questionnaires, and other commentaries and
bibliographies, offering a unique insider account of the
extraordinary advantages and pitfalls of publishing an art
magazine.
In the late 1990s, Rosalind Krauss, one of the principal theorists
of post-modernism in the arts, began using the term
“post-medium” in her work. It was a nod to the American
“ordinary language” philosopher Stanley Cavell, who had been
thinking through a concept of medium in art for 30 years. Today
with the decline of post-modernism, Stanley Cavell has emerged as
one of the most important figures for thinking again about the
visual arts, film and theatre. Stanley Cavell and the Arts looks at
Cavell’s extensive writings on a wide variety of artforms and at
a number of writers (Michael Fried, William Rothman) influenced by
his work. Over a 50-year career, Cavell wrote about visual art,
photography, classical music, Shakespeare, the plays of Samuel
Beckett and perhaps most notably Hollywood cinema. Stanley Cavell
and the Arts offers an overview of Cavell’s writings on the arts,
situating them within his wider philosophical practice, analysing
in detail his treatment of particular art forms and looking at the
work of those he has deeply shaped.
The Danish director Lars von Trier is undoubtedly one of the
world's most important and controversial filmmakers, and arguably
so because of the depiction of women in his films. He has been
criticized for subjecting his female characters to unacceptable
levels of violence or reducing them to masochistic self-abnegation,
as with Bess in Breaking the Waves, 'She' in Antichrist and Joe in
Nymphomaniac. At other times, it is the women in his films who are
dominant or break out in violence, as in his adaptation of
Euripides' Medea, the conclusion of Dogville and perhaps throughout
Nymphomaniac. Lars von Trier's Women confronts these dichotomies
head on. Editors Rex Butler and David Denny do not take a position
either for or against von Trier, but rather consider how both
attitudes fall short of the real difficulty of his films, which may
simply not conform to any kind of feminist or indeed anti-feminist
politics as they are currently configured. Using Lacanian
psychoanalysis and acknowledging the work of prior scholars on the
films, Lars von Trier's Women reveals hidden resources for a
renewed 'feminist' politics and social practice.
What is Philosophy? is the last instalment of a remarkable
twenty-year collaboration between the philosopher Gilles Deleuze
and the psychoanalyst Felix Guattari. This hugely important text
attempts to explain the terms of their collaboration and to define
the activity of philosophy in which they have been engaged. A major
contribution to contemporary Continental philosophy, it
nevertheless remains distinctly challenging for readers faced for
the first time with Deleuze and Guattari's unusual and somewhat
allusive style. Deleuze and Guattari's 'What is Philosophy?': A
Reader's Guide offers a concise and accessible introduction to this
hugely important and yet challenging work. Written specifically to
meet the needs of students coming to Deleuze and Guattari for the
first time, the book offers guidance on: - Philosophical and
historical context - Key themes - Reading the text - Reception and
influence - Further reading
The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is undoubtedly one of the
defining voices of our age. Since the Second World War, his work
has had an enormous impact on generations of writers, philosophers
and literary theorists. This clear and accessibly written guide
offers a close reading of ten of Borges' greatest short stories,
seeking to bring out the logic that has made his work so
influential. The main section of the guide offers an analysis of
such key terms in Borges' work as "labyrinth" and the "infinite"
and analyses Borges' particular narrative strategies. This guide
also sets Borges' work within its wider literary, cultural and
intellectual contexts and provides an annotated guide to both
scholarly and popular responses to his work to assist further
reading.
The Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons is
undoubtedly one of the world's major fashion designers. In 2017 she
was the second living designer to ever be given a retrospective at
the renowned Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York. Her work exerts an extraordinary influence over
succeeding generations of designers and is a major point of
reference for all those wishing to explore the place of fashion in
contemporary culture. The 14 essays in this collection, written by
eminent fashion theorists from around the world, ask what is the
relationship of Kawakubo's work to art, philosophy and
architecture, and ultimately illustrate how Kawakubo's creative
output allows us to understand the very notion of fashion itself.
What is Philosophy? is the last instalment of a remarkable
twenty-year collaboration between the philosopher Gilles Deleuze
and the psychoanalyst Felix Guattari. This hugely important text
attempts to explain the terms of their collaboration and to define
the activity of philosophy in which they have been engaged. A major
contribution to contemporary Continental philosophy, it
nevertheless remains distinctly challenging for readers faced for
the first time with Deleuze and Guattari's unusual and somewhat
allusive style. This Reader's Guide offers a concise and accessible
introduction to this hugely important and yet challenging work.
Written specifically to meet the needs of students coming to
Deleuze and Guattari for the first time, the book offers guidance
on the philosophical and historical context of the text, its
reception and influence, its key themes, notes on reading the text
and further reading suggestions.
The Danish director Lars von Trier is undoubtedly one of the
world's most important and controversial filmmakers, and arguably
so because of the depiction of women in his films. He has been
criticized for subjecting his female characters to unacceptable
levels of violence or reducing them to masochistic self-abnegation,
as with Bess in Breaking the Waves, 'She' in Antichrist and Joe in
Nymphomaniac. At other times, it is the women in his films who are
dominant or break out in violence, as in his adaptation of
Euripides' Medea, the conclusion of Dogville and perhaps throughout
Nymphomaniac. Lars von Trier's Women confronts these dichotomies
head on. Editors Rex Butler and David Denny do not take a position
either for or against von Trier, but rather consider how both
attitudes fall short of the real difficulty of his films, which may
simply not conform to any kind of feminist or indeed anti-feminist
politics as they are currently configured. Using Lacanian
psychoanalysis and acknowledging the work of prior scholars on the
films, Lars von Trier's Women reveals hidden resources for a
renewed 'feminist' politics and social practice.
Slavoj Ž iž ek is undoubtedly one of the world's leading cultural
critics. His witty, psychoanalytically-inspired analyses of
contemporary society have almost single-handedly revived the notion
of ideology. His brilliant commentaries on the French psychoanalyst
Jacques Lacan and the 19th century German Idealists have brought
alive their often difficult ideas for a new generation of readers.
But does Ž iž ek have anything to say in his own right? Is there a
system of thought that can properly call "Ž iž ekian"? This book
argues that there is, through a reading of two terms in his
work--the master-signifier and the act. Featuring and interview
with Ž iž ek himself, Slavoj: live theory presents a snapshot of
the Ž iž ek system ideal for undergraduates in social and cultural
theory and philosophy.
This book goes beyond Baudrillard's writings on consumer objects,
the Gulf War and America, to identify the fundamental logic that
underpins his writings. It does this through a series of close
readings of his main texts, paying particular attention to the form
and internal coherence of his arguments. The book is written for
all those who want a general introduction to Baudrillard's work,
and will also appeal to those readers who are interested in social
theory, but who have not yet taken Baudrillard seriously.
The Universal Exception is the second volume of the selected
writings of Slavoj ek-one of the most provocative and inspiring
writers on culture at work today. Bringing together a broad
selection of ek's major writings on politics, The Universal
Exception showcases Zizek's formidable range of interests and his
style. The book includes his interventions on such world political
events as the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and the
American-led invasion of Iraq, his celebration of the revolutionary
potential of Stalinism, and his critique of Third Way politics.
Together with Interrogating the Real, the first volume of ek's
selected writings, this collection offers a superb introduction to
the work of this prolific, controversial and vastly entertaining
cultural commentator.
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