Ornamental verses abound in Romantic-era commonplace books, albums, epitaphs, pamphlets, personal and commercial anthologies, newspapers, magazines, and periodicals - that is, in the repositories where historical general audiences read and recorded poetry. Today, by contrast, attachment to ornament is commonly dismissed as a defect of taste, often ......
Modern politics is preoccupied with states of emergency. Yet emergency politics obscures underlying socio-economic, infrastructural, and ecological conditions of need. Prompted by Hannah Arendt's claim that theater is "the political art par excellence," Benjamin Lewis Robinson treats this political perplexity as a theatrical problem. In the ......
How Predictive Algorithms Shape Identity and the Social Fabric
In this book, philosopher Philippe Huneman aims to offer an unprecedented and systematic understanding of a simultaneously banal and singular phenomenon of modern life: the digital profile. Diving deeply into the algorithms that produce these profiles, Huneman examines the way in which an individual becomes a predictable subject, both as unwilling ......
Modern politics is preoccupied with states of emergency. Yet emergency politics obscures underlying socio-economic, infrastructural, and ecological conditions of need. Prompted by Hannah Arendt's claim that theater is "the political art par excellence," Benjamin Lewis Robinson treats this political perplexity as a theatrical problem. In the ......
Ornamental verses abound in Romantic-era commonplace books, albums, epitaphs, pamphlets, personal and commercial anthologies, newspapers, magazines, and periodicals - that is, in the repositories where historical general audiences read and recorded poetry. Today, by contrast, attachment to ornament is commonly dismissed as a defect of taste, often ......
In today's fast-moving business world, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) plays a critical yet often misunderstood role. Nathan Bennett and Stephen A. Miles's Riding Shotgun: The Role of the COO offers a deep dive into what it takes to succeed as a second-in-command. This insightful book explores how COOs support CEOs, drive strategy, and ensure ......
Iran is home to one of the largest Middle Eastern Jewish communities outside of Israel, numbering around 10,000 people today. This book explores the twentieth-century history of Iranian Jews as they grappled with global political movements and Iranian national identity. Over the course of the century, Iranian Jews were courted and attracted by ......
Lisu Worldmaking Against Chinese Settler Colonialism
What does it mean to live through a world coming undone? How do people carry on amid rupture, loss, and grief? Decolonial Endurance explores these questions through the turbulent lives of Indigenous Lisu subsistence farmers in China's Eastern Himalayas, bordering Myanmar and Tibet. Like many of China's Indigenous borderlands, this mountainous ......
Although modern life provides many examples of exorbitance - of wealth, growth, information, ambition, consumption, violence - preoccupation with what is 'over the top' is not new. What is it about the idea of going unreasonably beyond what is reasonable that exercises fascination? In this wide-ranging work, essayist and scholar Steven Connor ......
