230pp ISBN 1899926216
15 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
The first volume in a new series from the School of Cultural Studies at Sheffield Hallam University and Site Gallery
This publication has come out of a lecture series in which artists, and occasionally speakers from other disciplines, present a discourse on their practices. The publication contains the discussions between each speaker and audience, following the lecture, and specially conceived artist pages. Two essays have been commissioned, from Jane Rendell who addresses the themes of the first semester¹s talks spatiality, homelessness, and anxiety and Duncan McLaren, who takes up propositions of the second semester¹s themes of performativity, repetition, and acting out. The essays, like the discussions, explore what it means to speak, to listen, and to construct meaning or work in the interstice between the two.
Contributors: Sophy Rickett, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Cornford & Cross, Vong Phaophanit, Laura Godfrey-Isaacs, Mary Evans, Andrew Grassie, Roxy Walsh, Dutton & Peacock, Breda Beban, Sharon Kivland, Jane Prophet, Alan Johnston, Noble & Silver, Kristin Mojsiewicz, Neal Beggs, Sonia Boyce, Simon Patterson, Adam Chodzko, Daniel Marques, Susan Johanknecht, Laura Horelli, Jane Rendell, Duncan McLaren Price: £10.00
Lukas & Sternberg 2003
300 pages ISBN 0967180295
14 x 21,5 cm English text. Softcover
"Sex, Art and the Dow Jones" attempts to extract a certain number of aesthetic topics from their historic contexts (art and film history) in order to connect them to the restructuring currently going on in our society. Even today, questions from the 1980s appear to have linking components – a phenomenon occurring within anthropology, politics, and sociology, as well as in the aesthetic context.
Jean-Charles Massera is a writer and art critic based in South of France. He is the author of "gangue son" (Méréal), "The Lesson of Stains (Towards an aesthetics of reconstitution), Pierre Huyghe The Third Memory", (Centre Georges Pompidou/Renaissance Society), "France guide de l'utilisateur" (P.O.L), "United Emmerdements of New Order" preceded by "United Problems of Coût de la Main d'Œuvre" (P.O.L) as well as plays, radio fictions and catalogue essays. Price: £17.95
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University of Minnesota Press 2002
456 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 0816637946
17 x 24 cm English text. Softcover
A multifaceted history of New York's influential alternative art scene during a time of rapid social change.
By the mid-1960s, New York's art establishment-its major museums and galleries-had ceased to reflect the city's diversity and had largely ignored the decade's social, political, and cultural ferment. In response, marginalized artists created an oppositional network of organizations, exhibit spaces, and cooperative galleries that both paralleled and challenged the status quo. This alternative art movement flourished for more than two decades, repositioning New York at the center of international contemporary art. Alternative Art New York brings together a diverse group of artists and critics to explore the origins and evolution of this diffuse and vibrant cultural scene from a variety of perspectives: political, philosophical, organizational, economic, and aesthetic.
Locating the movement within both the art world and its larger social and political context, these authors decipher the shifting configurations of cultural power in this period and the complex relationship between the mainstream and the marginal. With a unique, annotated chronology of the alternative art scene from 1965 to 1985, and illustrated with 150 images of key works, installations, and exhibits; reproductions of posters, communiqués, and other ephemera; and photographs of protests and meetings, this volume is an important work of contemporary art history and a valuable sourcebook that suggests the basis for the return of an artist-driven cultural economy.
Contributors: Martin Beck, Juli Carson, Jim Cornwell, David Deitcher, Arlene Goldbard, Miwon Kwon, Lucy R. Lippard, Alan Moore, Brian Wallis. Price: £15.99
Continuum 2003
224 pages ISBN 0826459730
15 x 22.5 cm English text. Softcover
Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida are the two leading philosophers of French post-structuralism. Both theorists have been widely studied but very little has been done to examine the relation between them. Between Deleuze and Derrida is the first book to explore and compares their work. This is done via a number of key themes, including the philosophy of difference, language, memory, time, event, and love, as well as relating these themes to their respective approaches to Philosophy, Literature, Politics and Mathematics.
Contributors: Eric Alliez, Branka Arsic, Gregg Lambert, Leonard Lawlor, Alphonso Lingis, Tamsin Lorraine, Jeff Nealon, Paul Patton, Arkady Plotnitsky, John Protevi, Daniel W. Smith Price: £16.99
Manchester University Press 2003
272 pages ISBN 0719061393
14 x 21.5 cm English text. Softcover
The rise of literary theory spawned the rise of anti-aestheticism, so that even for cultural theorists, discussions concerning aesthetics were often carried out in a critical shorthand that failed to engage with the particularity of the work of art, much less the specificities of aesthetic experience.
This book introduces the notion of a new aestheticism - 'new' insofar as it identifies a turn taken by a number of important contemporary thinkers towards the idea that focussing on the specifically aesthetic impact of a work of art or literature has the potential to open radically different ways of thinking about identity, politics and culture. The appearance of a new aestheticism at a moment that is often termed 'post-theoretical' is a direct index of the extent to which, as 'theory' now enters a more reflective phase, there is an increased willingness among critics and philosophers to consider the ways in which literary and cultural theory often overlooked key aspects of its reliance on philosophical aesthetics. With its impressive array of contributors, The new aestheticism will be of particular interest to students and scholars of literature, philosophy and cultural studies. Price: £15.99
Continuum 2005
276 pages ISBN 0826479316
13 x 20 cm English text. Hardcover
The two key essays by Antonio Negri brought together here were written in prison two decades apart. "Time for Revolution" illuminates the course of Negri's thinking from the 1980s to Empire and beyond. It reflects Negri's abiding interest in the philosophy of time and resistance. The first essay is a central work in Negri's oeuvre, tracing the fracture lines which force capitalist society into perpetual crisis. The second essay, written immediately after "Empire", provides a conceptual toolbox, deepening our understanding of the two key concepts of empire and multitude. "Time for Revolution" explores the issue of our times: is there still a place for resistance in a society utterly subsumed by capitalism?
"We discover here another Negri, a Negri deeply immersed in a philosophical, even a theological problematic. This book is a MUST: it provides the proper background for Negri's widely circulated analysis of the global capitalist Empire." Slavoj Zizek Price: £8.99
360 pages ISBN 0719057388
This new, completely revised and re-written edition of Aesthetics and subjectivity brings up to date the original book's account of the path of German philosophy from Kant, via Fichte and Holderlin, the early Romantics, Schelling, Hegel, Schleiermacher, to Nietzsche, in view of recent historical research and contemporary arguments in philosophy and theory in the humanities.
The original book helped make subjectivity, aesthetics, music and language a significant part of debate in the humanity. Bowie develops the approaches to these areas in relation to new theoretical advances which bridge the divide between the continental and analytical traditions of philosophy.
In light of the huge growth of interest in German philosophy as a resource for re-thinking both literary and cultural theory, and contemporary philosophy, Aesthetics and subjectivity will be indispensable reading for students and teachers in all humanities subjects, from literature, to philosophy, to music and beyond. Price: £16.99
288 pages ISBN 0826460100
14.5 x 21.5 cm English text. Softcover
What do we mean when we speak of "beauty"? What do we experience? Beauty is no longer the human experience of the harmonious object; today an aesthetics of difference has revolutionised our ways of seeing the beautiful. Now, we live in a time of "extreme beauty."
Extreme Beauty explores art, literature, politics, and philosophy in order to illuminate how the concept and experience of beauty has changed. The essays range from Hegel and Modernism to Marcel Duchamp and the Avant-Garde, postmodern poetics, boredom and Proust, the romance of Arendt and Heidegger, fascism and the consumption of the flesh, postcolonialism and imagination to Derrida and the glory and gift of death. Price: £19.99
Reaktion 2003
176 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1861891539
15 x 20 cm English text. Softcover
Just as a person contrives a style, the purpose of which is integration and the effect of which is presentation, so a nation collectively projects an appearance, a ‘national’ style. Such styles are made of many layers. The deepest layer is composed of the immutable and the traditional. Nearer the surface floats fashion, changeable but sometimes more abiding. And frothing on the surface is fad.
By definition a fad is novel and appears from outside. Fads must have instant appeal and do not have a long shelf life. In Japan, an assortment of islands, the outside is often the quality that defines the inside.
Japan has a history of chasing fads and fashion. Since the 19th century, foreign products have been welcomed in, from the cult for ‘squeaky shoes’ in the mid-19th century to the current fad for virtual reality girlfriends. Japan’s mandate was that, having been opened late, it had to hurry to catch up. Fads provide both a social distraction and a sense of cohesion, indicating not only foreign importation but also native adaptation.
The Image Factory is both an investigation into fads, fashions and style – such as US Army surplus uniforms, ‘pachinko’, mutating hair colours – and an appreciation of their inherent meanings. The Japanese have seized upon fads and fashion as an arm of enterprise to a much greater extent than elsewhere in the world. Ephemerality has been put to work, the transient has become industrialized, and the results are highly conspicuous. Price: £14.95
Alphabet City 2002
640 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0973055006
19 x 28 cm English text. Softcover
There is a crisis in the archives. Contemporary protocols for archiving and accessing increasingly vast amounts of materials present unprecedented possibilities and problems for the production, classification, and use of knowledge. Surveying the jagged edge between memory and forgetting, revealing the force and scope of some of memory's losses--its technical drop-outs, its lacunae, burials, omissions, eclipses, and denials--Lost in the Archives explores the thesis that memory is productively read from its failures and absences, in the not-yet or impossible archives, in archive fevers and dementias, in all the places archives cannot or have not looked. Investigations on the limits of memory are instigated by over 70 artists and writers, including Jacques Derrida, Atom Egoyan, Gustave Flaubert, Boris Groys, Candida Höfer, Rem Koolhaas, Sol Lewitt, Bruce Mau, and Jeff Wall. Like a purloined letter, the shelved and forgotten book wields its most virulent power precisely in being unread. Unread, if not indeed illegible, what is lost in the archive may prove to exert the most shocking force. Price: £27.50
304 pages ISBN 082646646X
Henri Lefebvre: Key Writings presents for the first time the full range of Lefebvre's thought. The selection reinforces the centrality of Lefebvre to current debates in social and spatial theory but also sets Lefebvre's work in the context of his broader philosophical and political concerns.
The extracts are divided into sections, each separately introduced by the editors: Philosophy and Marxism; Everyday Life and Modernity; The Country and the City; Space, Time and History; Politics. Nearly all the extracts presented here are new translations and most have never appeared in English before. Price: £19.99
240 pages ISBN 0826459943
"By approaching race thinking across a broader range of contexts than is usual and by investigating it with an attention to historical specificity that is still regrettably rare, Philosophies Of Race And Ethnicity makes a unique contribution to the development of a transcultural approach to critical race theory."
Robert Bernasconi, The University of Memphis
Race and ethnicity have become two of the most loaded and contested concepts in the contemporary world. Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity aims to disentangle this complexity and guide the reader to a clearer understanding of the debates.
Analysing the genealogy, meanings and political uses of the concepts of 'race' and 'ethnicity', 'Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity' draws on the best scholarship from philosophy, history, post-colonial studies, political theory and literary studies to explore the structure, status and scope of these concepts.
The book outlines the ways in which a variety of disciplines have informed and shaped theories of questions of race and ethnicity, setting these broadly philosophical analyses within their social and historical context.
Contributors: Linda Martin Alcoff, Chetan Bhatt, Rey Chow, Rebecca Karl, David Macey, Naoki Sakai, Bill Schwarz, Denise da Silva, Francoise Verges, Robert J.C. Young. Price: £16.99
