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This book gathers all the questions that appear in the following books by Angela Davis: Angela Davis: An Autobiography, (1974); Women, Race and Class (1981); Women, Culture & Politics, Vintage (1990), Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, Vintage Books (1999); Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003); Abolition Democracy: Beyond(...)
The collected questions of Angela Davis
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This book gathers all the questions that appear in the following books by Angela Davis: Angela Davis: An Autobiography, (1974); Women, Race and Class (1981); Women, Culture & Politics, Vintage (1990), Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, Vintage Books (1999); Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003); Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire, Seven Stories Press (2005); The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues (2012); Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (2015). This a non-profit project. The money obtained by Gato Negro from the sale of this book finances the printing of other copies that are distributed free of charge in antiracist and prison abolition spaces and organisations among Latin America.
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Le terme post-croissance désigne l’entrée dans une ère que nous ne savons pas encore nommer. Les symptômes qui signent la fin d’une époque sont clairs et sans appel : la poursuite de la croissance économique ne constitue plus un projet de société crédible. Toutefois, y renoncer pose aux économistes des défis majeurs qui exigent de reprendre à leur racine les questions(...)
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May 2024
Vers une société post-croissance
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Le terme post-croissance désigne l’entrée dans une ère que nous ne savons pas encore nommer. Les symptômes qui signent la fin d’une époque sont clairs et sans appel : la poursuite de la croissance économique ne constitue plus un projet de société crédible. Toutefois, y renoncer pose aux économistes des défis majeurs qui exigent de reprendre à leur racine les questions dont ils traitent couramment. Ensemble, les neuf chercheurs réunis dans cet ouvrage s’interrogent : quels sont les problèmes majeurs qui surgissent à l’esprit dès lors que l’on abandonne un objectif de croissance continue? Par où passe la transition vers un autre horizon? Quels sont les courants de pensée et les modes de gouvernance susceptibles d’articuler un projet cohérent? Ce livre accessible, instructif et salutaire, nous invite à prendre avec intelligence le tournant économique qui arrive droit devant nous.
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The racial cage
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"The racial cage" delivers a spirited and polyvocal analysis of how race is materialized through both metaphorical and literal cages. It theorizes the cage, fence, dragnet, and tube as material–semiotic sites for racialization and for iteratively redefining the human–animal boundary. A collaborative conversation across continents, this work examines the racial cage as an(...)
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July 2025
The racial cage
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"The racial cage" delivers a spirited and polyvocal analysis of how race is materialized through both metaphorical and literal cages. It theorizes the cage, fence, dragnet, and tube as material–semiotic sites for racialization and for iteratively redefining the human–animal boundary. A collaborative conversation across continents, this work examines the racial cage as an important part of the practice of social division and bodily containment. The deeply considered result is an empirical and theoretical approach to biohumanities that productively interrogates its linkages to critical theories of race and racism.
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Coralations
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"Coralations" is a philosophical exploration of the media that come into focus when we shift our attention from the highly recognizable coral of the tropics. Focusing on soft corals and deep-water corals leads to different narratives about climate change and involves different analogies to media. Through thought-provoking analyses of photography, science fiction, visual(...)
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"Coralations" is a philosophical exploration of the media that come into focus when we shift our attention from the highly recognizable coral of the tropics. Focusing on soft corals and deep-water corals leads to different narratives about climate change and involves different analogies to media. Through thought-provoking analyses of photography, science fiction, visual art, and scientific images, Melody Jue renews our curiosity and broadens our understanding of corals beyond the dominant narratives about their endangerment. "Coralations" shows how paying attention to particular corals can change what we take for granted.
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Lawn: Object lessons
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A quintessential feature in Western gardens and landscaping, the lawn is now at the center of a climate change controversy. The large carbon footprint maintenance, its unquenchable thirst for fertilizers, weedkillers, and water, and the notorious unfriendliness towards all forms of wildlife have recently attracted criticism and even spurred an anti-lawn movement. Lawn(...)
Lawn: Object lessons
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A quintessential feature in Western gardens and landscaping, the lawn is now at the center of a climate change controversy. The large carbon footprint maintenance, its unquenchable thirst for fertilizers, weedkillers, and water, and the notorious unfriendliness towards all forms of wildlife have recently attracted criticism and even spurred an anti-lawn movement. Lawn untangles the colonial-capitalist threads that keep our passion for mown grass alive despite mounting evidence that we'd be better off without it. The lawn is aesthetically and ideologically versatile. From museums and hospitals to corporate headquarters and university campuses, it has become the verdant lingua franca of institutions of all kinds. Its formal homogeneity and neatness imply reliability, constancy, and solicit our trust. But beneath the lawn lies a stratification of intricate ideological and ecological issues that over time have come to define our conception of nature.
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Black gold. Liquid sunlight. Texas tea. Oil remains the ur-commodity of our global era, having been distilled from ancient algae and marine life to turn modernity's wheels. Wars are fought over it. Some communities are displaced by its extraction, so that others may reap its benefits. But despite its heated history, few will ever see oil on the ground. Shrouded within a(...)
Oil
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Black gold. Liquid sunlight. Texas tea. Oil remains the ur-commodity of our global era, having been distilled from ancient algae and marine life to turn modernity's wheels. Wars are fought over it. Some communities are displaced by its extraction, so that others may reap its benefits. But despite its heated history, few will ever see oil on the ground. Shrouded within a labyrinth of oil fields, pipelines, and manufacturies, it tends to be known only through its magical effects: the thrill of the road, the euphoria of flight, and the metamorphic allure of everything from vinyl records to celluloid film and synthetic clothing. Michael Tondre shows how hydrocarbon became today's pre-eminent power. How did oil come to structure selfhood and social relations? And to what extent is oil not only a commercial product but a cultural one-something shaped by widely imagined dreams and desires? Amid a warming world unleashed by fossil fuels, oil appears as a rich resource for thinking about histories of globalization and technology no less than the energetic underpinnings of literature, film, and art.
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Videotape: Object lessons
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Over the span of a single decade, VHS technology changed the relationship between privacy and entertainment, pried open the closed societies behind the Iron Curtain, and then sank back into oblivion. Its meteoric rise and fall encapsulated the dynamics of the '80s and foreshadowed the seismic cultural shifts to come after the Cold War. In the West, its advent deepened the(...)
Videotape: Object lessons
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Over the span of a single decade, VHS technology changed the relationship between privacy and entertainment, pried open the closed societies behind the Iron Curtain, and then sank back into oblivion. Its meteoric rise and fall encapsulated the dynamics of the '80s and foreshadowed the seismic cultural shifts to come after the Cold War. In the West, its advent deepened the trends of the age: individualism, consumerism, the fragmentation of society, and the consolidation of corporate power in the entertainment industry and its victory over the regulatory powers of the state. In the East, it encouraged new forms of socialization and economic exchanges, while announcing the gradual crumbling of government control over the imagination of the people. By the mid-1990s, the VHS format was displaced by the DVD. The DVD would eventually give way to streaming. Yet the cultural legacy of the videotape continues to inform our relationship to technology, privacy, and to entertainment.
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Imagine, observe, remember
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"When one looks into the darkness there is always something there."—W. B. Yeats, The Secret Rose When one looks into one’s own interior there is always mental imagery. "Imagine, observe, remember" looks at the looking we do with the mind’s eye, offering practical exercises for the development of this mysterious faculty. The book is also a memoir, a portrait of the artist(...)
Imagine, observe, remember
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"When one looks into the darkness there is always something there."—W. B. Yeats, The Secret Rose When one looks into one’s own interior there is always mental imagery. "Imagine, observe, remember" looks at the looking we do with the mind’s eye, offering practical exercises for the development of this mysterious faculty. The book is also a memoir, a portrait of the artist as he develops his craft from what is possibly his first drawing to his current status of seasoned practitioner. It is furthermore a series of meditations, observations, quotes, images and instructions that will constitute a valuable resource for artists, writers, teachers and any reader who agrees that the uncharted wilderness within is worthy of exploration.
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Petit traité de la joie
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Reçue sans qu’on la demande, nous devons nous approprier notre vie. L’amour que l’Homme heureux lui porte est le fruit d’un travail sur la façon dont il prend les choses – ou plutôt : sur la façon dont il apprend à moins prendre les choses pour les accueillir mieux. Avec ce livre, l’auteur nous accompagne dans ce travail. Il nous invite à consentir à la vie, à lui offrir(...)
Petit traité de la joie
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Reçue sans qu’on la demande, nous devons nous approprier notre vie. L’amour que l’Homme heureux lui porte est le fruit d’un travail sur la façon dont il prend les choses – ou plutôt : sur la façon dont il apprend à moins prendre les choses pour les accueillir mieux. Avec ce livre, l’auteur nous accompagne dans ce travail. Il nous invite à consentir à la vie, à lui offrir un oui à sa mesure – ample comme le sont nos peines, surabondant à la mesure de nos joies. Un oui qui révèlera ce que la vie est pour chacun : un présent.
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This new book by Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre is a highly original analysis of the two key processes that shape the contemporary public sphere. On the one hand, there are the processes of news provision which select out a range of facts and events and bring them to the attention of a large number of people who have not, for the most part, experienced them directly.(...)
The making of public space: News, events, and opinions in the twenty-first century
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This new book by Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre is a highly original analysis of the two key processes that shape the contemporary public sphere. On the one hand, there are the processes of news provision which select out a range of facts and events and bring them to the attention of a large number of people who have not, for the most part, experienced them directly. On the other hand, there are processes of politicization which problematize the facts made known by news provision and treat them as issues that concern citizens and the state. Politicization is typically characterized by a diversity of interpretations which, in turn, gives rise to a proliferation of commentary, discussion, polemic and division.
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