In The Form of Becoming Janina Wellmann offers an innovative understanding of the emergence aroun...

A revised edition of a groundbreaking work tracing the rhetoric, politics, and ideology of funera...

'The subject of this book is the relationship between the enormous, extraordinary, and sometimes ...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismHow neoliberals turned to nature...

A survey of the different visual arts within a sweeping conception of the history of culture by a...

Beneath the Wage retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging ...

A thorough examination of the worldwide digital transformation of people’s everyday monetary and ...

A wide-ranging investigation of the interaction between writing and portraiture across history an...

An exquisite meditation on the mysterious Fayum portraitsJean-Christophe Bailly’s A Silent Apostr...

An astounding anthropological study of the myriad ways contemporary residents of Beijing understa...

A groundbreaking exploration of voice in literature, oratory, and song

In Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, Wendy Brown considers the recent spate of wall building in ...

The hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care mor...

In this groundbreaking work, Ariella Azoulay thoroughly revises our understanding of the ethical ...

In his stunning essay Coldness and Cruelty Gilles Deleuze provides a rigorous and informed philos...

In Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, the group's founder, provides, for the first time, an in-...

An investigation of how the idea of a public as a central fiction of modern life informs our lite...

Images and script from one of the greatest experimental films ever made.

A classic work that rereads questions of 'muthos' and 'logos' in multifaceted contexts.

A far-reaching philosophical investigation into the persistence and disappearance of speech, in i...

Examining Tony Conrad's collaborative interactions as a guiding thread by which to investigate th...

Political acts are encoded in medial forms that have force, shaping people as subjects and formin...

A groundbreaking reassessment of Symbolist artists and writers that investigates the concerns the...

The new form of 'humanitarian government' emerging from natural disasters and military occupation...

A butterfly is like another butterfly. A butterfly is also like a leaf and at the same time like ...

For the past four hundred years, hearing has been understood as involving the sympathetic resonan...

Albrecht Dürer's famous portrayal of creative effort in paralysis, the unsurpassed masterpiece of...

The first English translation of one of the earliest and most brilliant art-historical surveys, f...

A novel attempt to make sense of our preoccupation with copies of all kinds--from counterfeits to...

The past, present, and future prospects of nongovernmental politics--political activism that with...

From late medieval reenactments of the Deposition from the Cross to Sol Lewitts Buried Cube, Depo...

Neoliberal rationality - ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, educ...

Ten Thousand Things explores the many forms of life, or, in ancient Chinese parlance the ten thou...

Essays by Gilles Deleuze on the search for a new empiricism.

In this book, his first to appear in English, French sinologist Francois Jullien uses the Chinese...

More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outline...

If Marxs opus Capital provided the foundational account of the forces of production in all of the...

A fascinating account of the Na society, which functions without the institution of marriage.

In The Demon of Writing, Ben Kafka offers a critical history and theory of one of the most ubiqui...

An investigation of a cosmic experimentIn 1851, the physicist Léon Foucault performed an unforget...

A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conceptual history of the changing meanings and metaphors of “a...

The emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences, as revealed through images i...

Two leading contemporary art historians present a stunning reconsideration of the problem of time...

The Normal and the Pathological is one of the crucial contributions to the history of science in ...

Caroline Walker Bynum examines diverse medieval texts to show how women were able to appropriate ...

Wonders and the Order of Nature is about the ways in which European naturalists from the High Mid...

'From missing persons to disenfranchised civil subjects, from individuals tainted with infamy to ...

An examination of pleasure--short-term delight and the cultivation of longer-term satisfaction--i...