This groundbreaking book rethinks landscapes of the social world and historical practice by theorizing ‘social haunting’: the ways in which social forms, figures, phantasms and ghosts of the past become present to us time and time again.
This book rethinks the relationship between nature and human beings by describing their entanglements with machines. Reworking central ideas of... Læs mere
This book radically re-examines Europe’s imaginaries of its origin in the ancient Greek world. Extracting central concepts of critical theory in its widest sense, it allies them to characters, mythologies and motifs in ancient thought.
This book examines the social production of social worlds – present, past and yet-to-come – employing central concepts in sociology to draw lessons from... Læs mere
This book looks at the phantasms and spirits of classical social science and philosophy, including Hegel’s ‘World-Spirit’, Weber’s ‘Verstehen’ and Marx’s phantasms, exploring the relationships and interactions between those spirits and materiality across five broad themes.