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The pace of modern life is accelerating. To keep up, we must keep on moving and adapting ? constantly striving for greater happiness and success. Or so we are told. But the demands of life in the...

This book provides an historically informed reconstruction of the social practices that have shaped the formation of the modern subject from the early modern period to the present. The formal legal...

A superyacht is a boat that exceeds 30 metres in length, with some surpassing even 100 metres ? more than a football field. At the beginning of the 21st century, there were about 2,000 of these...

The quest for sustainability has generated lifestyle changes for individuals across the globe, transformations within the arts, sciences, business, design, engineering, and agriculture, innovative...

This book offers a comprehensive reflection on the existential condition of the 21st century. A visionary introduction to existential posthumanism, it takes the form of eight meditations of posthuman...

Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously positive thing. The sexual revolution has liberated us to enjoy a heady mixture of erotic freedom and...

The idea that healthcare and education should be provided as universal public services to all who need them is widely accepted. But why leave it there? Why not expand it to more of life?s essentials?...

What remains of the colours of our childhood? What are our memories of a blue rabbit, a red dress, a yellow bike ? and were they really those colours? What colours do we associate with our student...

Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary...

The Disappearance Of Rituals: A Topology Of The PresentAuthor: Byung-Chul HanPublisher: PolityPublication Date: Oct 26, 2020Number of Pages: 186 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The kiss is the image that, perhaps more than any other, encompasses the beauty and poetry of love. Every love is required to maintain the kiss, to make it last. When they kiss, lovers carve out a...

The planet is in crisis. Time is short, but it is still possible to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions before disaster overtakes us all. Renowned philosopher Robin Attfield explains the moral reasons...

The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the...

Everyone has an opinion on racism. The vast majority of people would vehemently deny that they or those close to them are ?racist,? yet many of the most common understandings of racism are highly...

Author: Ulrich GutmairPublisher: PolityPublication Date: Jan 04, 2022Number of Pages: 200 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1509547304ISBN-13: 9781509547302

Why are we fascinated by mountains? These outcrops of rock were once considered unsightly, something to be avoided at all costs, but, since Rousseau, they have been contrasted with our corrupt cities...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 came to symbolise the dawn of a new era of openness and connectivity. Yet today, the world is ever more divided, demarcated and ? quite literally fortified. We are...

In 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the ?Kindertransport?, this effort has long been hailed as a feel-good wartime success...

The most popular narrative about transsexuality suggests that some people are born in the wrong body ? that their bodies do not correspond to their inner experience and that their bodies should...

Religious diversity is a key feature of countries across the world today, but it also presents governments with very real challenges. Controversies around religious free speech, symbols, social...

YiwuInvisible Warfare9781509562947 YiwuWuhan9781509562992 Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and...

Is the future about to close in, or is it open to new horizons? For anthropologist Tim Ingold, the root of our difficulty in facing up to the future lies in the way we think about generations. We...

The Scent Of Time: A Philosophical Essay On The Art Of LingeringAuthor: Byung-Chul HanPublisher: PolityPublication Date: Oct 09, 2017Number of Pages: 120 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Prompted by geo-strategic rivalry and the war in Ukraine, COVID-19 and the climate transition, trade policy is increasingly being weaponized. This trend towards protectionist capture and retaliation...

Since the beginning of the 21st century, global warming, terrorism, the pandemic and now the war in Ukraine have created a widespread feeling that the world is an increasingly dangerous place. In...

The breadth and depth of Zygmunt Bauman?s engagement with social theory and the history of social thought has perhaps been underestimated, in part because many of his early writings were in Polish...

As people throughout the world react to globalization and revert to nationalism, they are proclaiming distinct cultural identities for themselves. Cultural identity seems to offer a defensive wall...

A defining feature of being human is our ability to think. We refer to ourselves, after all, as homo sapiens. But in a world where experiencing and achieving as much as possible is the number one...

Twitch is the leading live streaming platform in most of the world and an integral part of contemporary digital gaming. Millions of people broadcast their digital game play (as well as other...

Over the last decade, images have become a key feature of digital culture; at the same time, they have made a mark on a wide range of research practices. Visual Methods for Digital Research is the...