Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military's attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological "supersoldiers" capable of becoming ever more lethal while withstanding various forms of extreme trauma.
Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal—an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea—as metaphor, mode of critique, and... Læs mere
Kamari Maxine Clarke explores the African Union's pushback against the International Criminal Court in order to theorize affect's role in shaping forms of justice.
Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to biomedical innovation, but they... Læs mere
Examining the relationship between emotional intensity and difficulty in works of avant-garde art, Jennifer Doyle seeks to develop a critical language for understanding affectively charged contemporary art.
Gabriel Rockhill examines the widespread understanding that we are living in an era of globalization that is... Læs mere
Integrating psychoanalytic and Marxist theory, this book describes the social and psychic dynamics of what has come to be called homophobia and on how the 'homosexual' as social being has come to be constituted in capitalist society.
Kate Crehan applies Antonio Gramsci's concepts of subalternity, intellectuals, and common sense to offer new ways to understand the many forms that... Læs mere
William E. Connolly expands his influential work on democratic pluralism to confront the perils of climate change by calling on us to... Læs mere
In The End of Japanese Cinema Alexander Zahlten traces the evolution of a new form of holistic media studies-media ecology-through historical overview and analysis of Japanese film and industry from the 1960s to the 2000s.
The contributors to this collection examine the lasting impact of the Great Depression on Latin America in terms of its effects on the role of the state, political-party competition, and the formation of working-class and other social and political movements.
This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America.