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Stephen Muecke
There is a quarrel about whose antiquity is at the foundation of Australian culture, and why contemporary forms of Aboriginality are marginal to Australia’s modernity. These are the starting points…
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Pignarre
Certain great friendships have left their mark in the annals of philosophy - and, without a doubt, the friendship of Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers is among them. Although they…
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Sacha Loeve
Carbon is much more than a chemical element: it is a polymorphic entity with many faces, at once natural, cultural and social. Ranging across ten million different compounds, carbon has…
Contributors: David J. Alworth, Anders Blok, Claudia Breger, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Yves Citton, Steven Connor, Gerard de Vries, Simon During, Rita Felski, Francis Halsall, Graham Harman, Antoine Hennion, Casper Bruun Jensen…
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Stephen Muecke,Paddy Roe
Written in a fictocritical style, this book introduces a new ‘multi-realist’ kind of analysis that focuses on institutions (Indigenous or European), their spheres of influence and long history of struggle…
Francois Sarano
Twenty metres below water, the oceanographer Francois Sarano came face to face with a five-and-a-half metre great white shark. Seduced by the gentle elegance of this majestic creature, Sarano experienced…
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Tobie Nathan
First published in French as Les aaAmes errantes aA L'Iconoclaste, Paris, 2017 – Title page verso.
Stephen Muecke,Adam Shoemaker
This profusely illustrated book offers a comprehensive look at the social and cultural history of Aborigines from the origins to the present.
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Stephen Muecke, one of the originators of fictocritical writing, presents a selection of his best essays in this innovative genre.
Krim Benterrak,Chair in Cultural Studies Stephen Muecke (University of Technology, Sydney),Paddy Roe
You people try and dig little more deep you been diggin only white soil try and find the black soil inside. Paddy Roe
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The revival of interest in the Indian Ocean is taking it into the interdisciplinary direction of Cultural Studies. Today, this new scholarship is faced with two major challenges.
Michel Onfray
A quirky, off-beat take on philosophers and their palates, tracing the food obsessions of philosophers from Diogenes to Sartre, Appetites for Thought guides us around the philosophers’ banquet table with…
Tony Birch
They are not just words whistling on the wind. They come laden with other gifts. With a whole place: Melbourne. It makes you wonder what elements must thus congeal to…
Paddy Roe
A revised edition of Indigenous Australian storytelling as it actually sounds, which provides a picture of the life of the people of the west Kimberley after colonisation. Paddy Roe was…
Vinciane Despret
Originally published in French as Au bonheur des morts, Raecits de ceux qui restent. Copyright aEditions La Daecouverte, Paris, 2015, 2017.
Isabelle Stengers
Like fast food, fast science is quickly prepared, not particularly good and it clogs up the system. Efforts to tackle our most pressing issues, like global warming, have been stymied…
Jean-Baptiste Vidalou
From the Sivens forest in France to the Hambach forest in Germany, from the Broadback forest in Canada to the rainforests of Borneo, something has shifted in these wild spaces…
The international contributors to this collection ask us to pause and consider the complex ways in which value is created and destroyed. Their diverse approaches of ethics, philosophy, cultural studies…
O Remaud
"Originally published in French as Penser comme un iceberg A Actes Sud, 2020"--Title page verso.
This volume invokes the postcolonial contemporary in order to recognize and reflect upon the emphatically postcolonial character of the contemporary conjuncture, as well as to inquire into whether postcolonial criticism…