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    Landscape and Power

    This work, originally published in 1994, reshapes the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but…

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    The Language of Images

    W. J. T. Mitchell

    A remarkably rich and provocative set of essays on the virtually infinite kinds of meanings generated by images in both the verbal and visual arts. Ranging from Michelangelo to Velazquez…

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    On Narrative

    W. J. T. Mitchell

    Essays examine the way stories are told, understood, and used to represent and make sense of the world.

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    Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism

    W. J. T. Mitchell

    Against Theory, the title essay in this volume, challenges the notion that literary theory has any real work to do, or any results to show. This challenge–issued by Steven Knapp…

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    Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology

    W. J. T. Mitchell

    [Mitchell] undertakes to explore the nature of images by comparing them with words, or, more precisely, by looking at them from the viewpoint of verbal language… . The most lucid…

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    Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation

    W. J. T. Mitchell

    In this companion volume to Iconology , the author investigates pictures - the concrete, representational objects in which images appear. Focusing on popular and television coverage of the Gulf War…

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    What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images

    W. J. T. Mitchell

    Opening new vistas in iconology and the emergent field of visual culture, he also considers the importance of Dolly the Sheep - who, as a clone, fulfills the ancient dream…

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    Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present

    W. J. T. Mitchell

    The phrase ‘War on Terror’ has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is hardly complete. Exploring the role…

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    Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics

    W. J. T. Mitchell

    Image Science gathers Mitchell’s most recent essays on media aesthetics, visual culture, and artistic symbolism. The chapters delve into such topics as the physics and biology of images, digital photography…

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    Mental Traveler: A Father, a Son, and a Journey Through Schizophrenia

    W J T Mitchell

    How does a parent make sense of a child’s severe mental illness? How does a father meet the daily challenges of caring for his gifted but delusional son, while seeking…

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    Seeing Through Race

    W. J. T. Mitchell

    According to Mitchell, a color-blind post-racial world is neither achievable nor desirable. Against claims that race is an outmoded construct, he contends that race is not simply something to be…

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    Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species and Posthumanism

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    In ‘Animal rites’, Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism, ethics, and animals by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal.

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    Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species and Posthumanism

    Cary Wolfe

    In ‘Animal rites’, Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism, ethics, and animals by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal.

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    Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation

    In Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation, Edward Said’s long-time friends and collaborators continue their dialogue with Said where they left off following his death in the fall of 2003.

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    The Late Derrida

    Points to the late work of Jacques Derrida, the writing by and about him in the period roughly from 1994 to 2004. This volume also deconstructs the whole question of…

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    Critical Terms for Media Studies

    Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. This…

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    Critical Terms for Media Studies

    Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. This…

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    Occupy

    W. J. T. Mitchell,Bernard Harcourt,Michael Taussig,Bernard E. Harcourt,Michael Taussig

    Features three essays that engage with the extraordinary Occupy Wall Street movement that has swept across the world, examining everything from self-immolations in the Middle East to the G8 crackdown…

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    Occupy - Three Inquiries in Disobedience

    W. J. T. Mitchell,Bernard Harcourt,Michael Taussig,Bernard E. Harcourt,Michael Taussig

    Features three essays that engage the extraordinary Occupy movement that has swept across the world, examining everything from self-immolations in the Middle East to the G8 crackdown in Chicago to…

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    The Garden, End of Times, Beginning of Times

    From the baroque to contemporary art and from painting, sculpture and installation to artworks that redefine the boundaries for art and nature, this book looks at the garden as symbol…

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