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Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
In "Two Bits", Christopher M. Kelty investigates the history and cultural significance of Free Software, revealing the people and practices that have transformed not only software, but also music, film, science, and education. Free Software is a set of practices devoted to the collaborative creation of software source code that is made...
The Politics of Operations: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism
The Politics of Operations: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism
In The Politics of Operations Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson investigate how capital reshapes its relation with politics through operations that enable the extraction and exploitation of mineral resources, labor, data, and cultures. They show how capital—which they theorize as a direct political actor—operates...
Surrealism at Play (Art History Publication Initiative)
Surrealism at Play (Art History Publication Initiative)
In Surrealism at Play Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, play took a consistent role in their aesthetic as they worked in, with, and against a post-World War I world increasingly dominated by...
The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)
The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)
From the first encounters between the Portuguese and indigenous peoples in 1500 to the current political turmoil, the history of Brazil is much more complex and dynamic than the usual representations of it as the home of Carnival, soccer, the Amazon, and samba would suggest. This extensively revised and expanded second edition of...
Essential Essays, Volume 1: Foundations of Cultural Studies (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings)
Essential Essays, Volume 1: Foundations of Cultural Studies (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings)
From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and early 2000s, Stuart Hall has been central to shaping many of the cultural and political debates of our time. Essential Essays—a landmark two-volume...
Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices
Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices
In Going Stealth Toby Beauchamp demonstrates how the enforcement of gender conformity is linked to state surveillance practices that identify threats based on racial, gender, national, and ableist categories of difference. Positioning surveillance as central to our understanding of transgender politics, Beauchamp examines a...
From Russia with Code: Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times
From Russia with Code: Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times
While Russian computer scientists are notorious for their interference in the 2016 US presidential election, they are ubiquitous on Wall Street and coveted by international IT firms and often perceive themselves as the present manifestation of the past glory of Soviet scientific prowess. Drawing on over three hundred...
The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism (Thought in the Act)
The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism (Thought in the Act)
In The World Computer Jonathan Beller forcefully demonstrates that the history of commodification generates information itself. Out of the omnipresent calculus imposed by commodification, information emerges historically as a new money form. Investigating its subsequent financialization of daily life and colonization of semiotics,...
 
   
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