A new form of investigative practice that uses architecture as an optical device to investigate armed conflicts and environmental destruction.
An investigation of how the idea of a public as a central fiction of modern life informs our literature, politics, and culture.
The emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences, as revealed through images in scientific atlases-a story of how lofty epistemic ideals fuse with workaday practices.
Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form is one of the great works of modern intellectual history, the legendary text that has dominated all art historical and philosophical discussions on the topic of perspective in this century.
Essays by Gilles Deleuze on the search for a new empiricism.
Late Medieval Christianity's encounter with miraculous materials viewed in the context of changing conceptions of matter itself.
Theory of Religion, along with its companion volumes of The Accursed Share, forms the cornerstone of Bataille's "Copernican" project to overturn not only economic thought but its ethical foundations as well.
Essays examine nine intriguing objects made eloquent when matter and meaning converge.
A new narrative for the emergence of human music, drawing from archaeology, cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary theory.
An argument that anyone can pursue political agency and resistance through photography, even those with flawed or nonexistent citizenship.
In this landmark text in anthropology and political science, Pierre Clastres offers examples of South American Indian groups that, though without hierarchical leadership, were both affluent and complex.