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Beginning with an essay about a three-hundred-year-old violin and what it can tell us about forests, abundance, and climate, and ending with on about a prisoner dreaming of seeing the ocean, ''No Straight Road Takes You There'' deftly bridges the political and the literary, offering unique insights, nuanced understanding, and inspiration for the challenging work ahead. In(...)
No straight road takes you there: essays for uneven terrain
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Beginning with an essay about a three-hundred-year-old violin and what it can tell us about forests, abundance, and climate, and ending with on about a prisoner dreaming of seeing the ocean, ''No Straight Road Takes You There'' deftly bridges the political and the literary, offering unique insights, nuanced understanding, and inspiration for the challenging work ahead. In her latest essay collection, the award-winning author explores climate change, feminism, democracy, hope, and power and its abuse. Throughout she asks us to heed the stories we tell or have been told, and the ways those stories can be, or should be changed. Solnit offers a reappraisal of the value of indirect consequences, an embrace of unpredictability, slowness, and imperfection in the politics of how to change the world.
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Over the last twenty-five years, the concept of personhood has become central to many contentious debates. Corporations have won free speech protections, as if they were individuals. The right to life or freedom has been claimed on behalf of fetuses, trees, and elephants. The fund of human rights is spilling over into the nonhuman. ''The Problem of Personhood'' reveals(...)
The problem of personhood: Giving rights to trees, corporations and robots
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Over the last twenty-five years, the concept of personhood has become central to many contentious debates. Corporations have won free speech protections, as if they were individuals. The right to life or freedom has been claimed on behalf of fetuses, trees, and elephants. The fund of human rights is spilling over into the nonhuman. ''The Problem of Personhood'' reveals the unsettling consequences of granting rights to imagined persons, such as Sophia the robot citizen or New Zealand’s Whanganui River. Synthesizing the political and philosophical debates on personhood and drawing on a varied cast of thinkers that includes Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, and Dr. Seuss, Lisa Siraganian uncovers the disturbing impact of this contemporary development. Awarding rights to robots and rivers all too easily becomes a legal tool to turn people into capital. When robot Sophia is made a citizen, “she” is transformed into a subject in the law without the corresponding legal duties that protect us from her. At the root of this trend is the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling that grants First Amendment rights to corporations as if they were individuals. The result has not been the transformation of things into humans so much as humans into things, when animals and the environment would be better protected with reference to our humanity rather than to theirs.
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Americans spend, on average, 90 percent of their lives indoors, with two-thirds of that time spent in their homes. Globally, the construction and maintenance of residential buildings account for a staggering portion of carbon emissions. In this timely and fascinating work, architect and urban-planning scholar Stefan Al deftly weaves together archaeology, engineering,(...)
Dwelling on Earth: the past and future of the places we call home
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Americans spend, on average, 90 percent of their lives indoors, with two-thirds of that time spent in their homes. Globally, the construction and maintenance of residential buildings account for a staggering portion of carbon emissions. In this timely and fascinating work, architect and urban-planning scholar Stefan Al deftly weaves together archaeology, engineering, social history, and environmental science to explain how our homes have developed through the ages and in turn shaped civilization and the planet itself. From tiny pit-houses in the Levant and Mesoamerica thousands of years ago to soaring skyscrapers in Dubai, New York, and Shanghai today, ''Dwelling on Earth'' takes readers on a swift and absorbing tour of the evolution of human habitation. Whisking readers from ancient Pompeii to contemporary Hong Kong, industrial-age Liverpool to postwar Levittown, Al shows how our choices in housing have both reflected and affected ideas about gender roles, privacy, and comfort. Discover how seemingly mundane elements—like door-knockers and corridors—have altered everyday interactions, and how material choices have remade the planet's surface. He also confronts the darker side of domesticity, exposing the unintended consequences of our architectural choices across millennia, including smoke-filled Neolithic dwellings, deadly fires in crowded Roman apartment buildings, and worsening social isolation in car-dependent suburbs. Finally, he examines the myths and reality of future housing, including 3D-printed homes and space architecture built by robots.
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For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter - sometimes line-by-line - Marx's three volumes and the Grundrisse. This new book opens up the mental universe of that work for a general reader. In ''The Story of Capital'', Harvey takes a synoptic approach to the conceptual architecture(...)
The story of capital: What everyone should know about how capital works
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For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter - sometimes line-by-line - Marx's three volumes and the Grundrisse. This new book opens up the mental universe of that work for a general reader. In ''The Story of Capital'', Harvey takes a synoptic approach to the conceptual architecture as a whole and guides us through the key moments, from labour and technology to the state and geopolitics, via the profit rate, social reproduction, the relationship to nature, fictitious capital and the return of the rentiers. In doing so, Harvey has produced a work which will become a key reference for all those trying to grasp the nature of contemporary capitalism.
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San Francisco, 1967. Le Summer of Love bat son plein et des milliers de jeunes arrivent de tous les États-Unis pour atteindre le quartier de Haight-Ashbury, laboratoire de l’utopie libertaire des sixties. Fruit de l’activisme et de l’idéalisme d’une jeunesse révoltée, elle a pris forme en quelques années sous l’action des beatniks, Diggers, Merry Pranksters, hippies,(...)
San Francisco : l'utopie libertaire des sixties
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San Francisco, 1967. Le Summer of Love bat son plein et des milliers de jeunes arrivent de tous les États-Unis pour atteindre le quartier de Haight-Ashbury, laboratoire de l’utopie libertaire des sixties. Fruit de l’activisme et de l’idéalisme d’une jeunesse révoltée, elle a pris forme en quelques années sous l’action des beatniks, Diggers, Merry Pranksters, hippies, Hell’s Angels, artistes et de toutes les tribus du San Francisco psychédélique qui aspirent à bien plus que le traditionnel peace and love caricaturé par les médias. Ils défendent entre autres la liberté, la gratuité, la spiritualité, l’autonomie et la solidarité, dans la perspective d’un monde plus juste et harmonieux. De leurs imaginations est né un monde qui continue de propager aujourd’hui ses initiatives contre le système dominant, proposant des alternatives, notamment l’écologie, face à l’individualisme forcené.
The return of the political
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A powerful new understanding of citizenship, democracy and pluralism Chantal Mouffe is one of the most influential political theorists at work today. Her work has influenced political parties across Europe and continues to inform the direction of left politics. In this work, Mouffe argues that liberal democracy misunderstands the problems of ethnic, religious and(...)
The return of the political
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A powerful new understanding of citizenship, democracy and pluralism Chantal Mouffe is one of the most influential political theorists at work today. Her work has influenced political parties across Europe and continues to inform the direction of left politics. In this work, Mouffe argues that liberal democracy misunderstands the problems of ethnic, religious and nationalist conflicts because of its inadequate conception of politics.
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Judith Butler’s new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates from a calm region of the soul, or as an individualist ethical relation to existing forms of power. But, in fact, nonviolence is an ethical position(...)
The force of non violence: the ethical in the political
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Judith Butler’s new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates from a calm region of the soul, or as an individualist ethical relation to existing forms of power. But, in fact, nonviolence is an ethical position found in the midst of the political field. An aggressive form of nonviolence accepts that hostility is part of our psychic constitution, but values ambivalence as a way of checking the conversion of aggression into violence. One contemporary challenge to a politics of nonviolence points out that there is a difference of opinion on what counts as violence and nonviolence. The distinction between them can be mobilized in the service of ratifying the state’s monopoly on violence. Considering nonviolence as an ethical problem within a political philosophy requires a critique of individualism as well as an understanding of the psychosocial dimensions of violence. Butler draws upon Foucault, Fanon, Freud, and Benjamin to consider how the interdiction against violence fails to include lives regarded as ungrievable. By considering how “racial phantasms” inform justifications of state and administrative violence, Butler tracks how violence is often attributed to those who are most severely exposed to its lethal effects. The struggle for nonviolence is found in movements for social transformation that reframe the grievability of lives in light of social equality and whose ethical claims follow from an insight into the interdependency of life as the basis of social and political equality.
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En écho à « Ne suis-je pas une femme? », célèbre discours de la militante abolitionniste afro-américaine Sojourner Truth en 1851, Rosa Pires signe un premier essai personnel et original sur une thématique brûlante d’actualité. Née au Québec d’immigrants portugais, souverainiste de longue date, quelque chose en elle se brise au moment de la Charte des valeurs; elle(...)
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En écho à « Ne suis-je pas une femme? », célèbre discours de la militante abolitionniste afro-américaine Sojourner Truth en 1851, Rosa Pires signe un premier essai personnel et original sur une thématique brûlante d’actualité. Née au Québec d’immigrants portugais, souverainiste de longue date, quelque chose en elle se brise au moment de la Charte des valeurs; elle commence à se sentir étrangère en son propre pays. Entre les femmes issues des minorités et le projet d’indépendance de la nation québécoise, un pont déjà chancelant s’est rompu. La politologue décide alors de mener une enquête auprès de 10 femmes de la deuxième génération issue de l’immigration afin de sonder leur point de vue sur les inégalités, l’appartenance et la question nationale. Femmes de conviction au parcours peu banal, toutes rêvent du moment où leur corps, leurs vêtements ou leur nom cesseront d’être un marqueur de différence ou d’invisibilité. Elles revendiquent leur place comme citoyennes québécoises engagées. À part entière.
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Rien n’a jamais été publié en France sur Sylvia Pankhurst. Sa pensée résonne pourtant aujourd’hui avec une bien plus grande force, une bien plus grande actualité que celle de militantes dont le seul horizon était celui du vote. Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960) est une féministe britannique, fille d'Emmeline Pankhurst aux côtés de laquelle elle a animé le mouvement des(...)
Sylvia Pankhurst : féministe, anticolonialiste, révolutionnaire
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Rien n’a jamais été publié en France sur Sylvia Pankhurst. Sa pensée résonne pourtant aujourd’hui avec une bien plus grande force, une bien plus grande actualité que celle de militantes dont le seul horizon était celui du vote. Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960) est une féministe britannique, fille d'Emmeline Pankhurst aux côtés de laquelle elle a animé le mouvement des suffragettes avant de s'en émanciper, le trouvant trop bourgeois. Elle fait partie des fondatrices du Parti communiste britannique mais en fut expulsée pour « gauchisme ». Féministe et anticolonialiste avant l'heure qui faisait fi des conventions de son époque (se marier), elle appartient au panthéon des femmes révolutionnaires au même titre que ses contemporaines Emma Goldman, Alexandra Kollontaï, Rosa Luxemburg et Clara Zetkin. Figure méconnue dans le monde francophone, ceci est sa première biographie.
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QuébeQueer : Le queer dans les productions littéraires, artistiques et mediatiques québécoises
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En plus d’offrir un portrait des productions culturelles queer au Québec tant francophones qu’anglophones, dont certaines autochtones, cet ouvrage s’attarde à révéler le caractère queer de celles qui ne le sont pas de facto. Il se présente comme un manuel de référence sur le sujet, avec des essais critiques – qui portent autant sur la littérature et le monde du spectacle(...)
QuébeQueer : Le queer dans les productions littéraires, artistiques et mediatiques québécoises
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En plus d’offrir un portrait des productions culturelles queer au Québec tant francophones qu’anglophones, dont certaines autochtones, cet ouvrage s’attarde à révéler le caractère queer de celles qui ne le sont pas de facto. Il se présente comme un manuel de référence sur le sujet, avec des essais critiques – qui portent autant sur la littérature et le monde du spectacle que sur les arts médiatiques ou la presse gay – et des textes expérimentaux – fictions, dessins, récits autobiographiques. Plus de 27 œuvres de fiction publiées entre 1965 et 2017 y sont analysées sous différents aspects, avec des méthodologies diverses, mais toujours sous l’éclairage queer (un terme à la nature instable, paradoxale, que calque la forme éclatée de l’ouvrage).
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