In The Form of Becoming Janina Wellmann offers an innovative understanding of the emergence aroun...

A revised edition of a groundbreaking work tracing the rhetoric, politics, and ideology of funera...

'The subject of this book is the relationship between the enormous, extraordinary, and sometimes ...

A survey of the different visual arts within a sweeping conception of the history of culture by a...

An exquisite meditation on the mysterious Fayum portraitsJean-Christophe Bailly’s A Silent Apostr...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismHow neoliberals turned to nature...

An astounding anthropological study of the myriad ways contemporary residents of Beijing understa...

A groundbreaking exploration of voice in literature, oratory, and song

Beneath the Wage retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging ...

A thorough examination of the worldwide digital transformation of people’s everyday monetary and ...

A wide-ranging investigation of the interaction between writing and portraiture across history an...

In Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, Wendy Brown considers the recent spate of wall building in ...

The hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care mor...

In this groundbreaking work, Ariella Azoulay thoroughly revises our understanding of the ethical ...

In Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, the group's founder, provides, for the first time, an in-...

In his stunning essay Coldness and Cruelty Gilles Deleuze provides a rigorous and informed philos...

Images and script from one of the greatest experimental films ever made.

An investigation of how the idea of a public as a central fiction of modern life informs our lite...

A classic work that rereads questions of 'muthos' and 'logos' in multifaceted contexts.

A far-reaching philosophical investigation into the persistence and disappearance of speech, in i...

Examining Tony Conrad's collaborative interactions as a guiding thread by which to investigate th...

Political acts are encoded in medial forms that have force, shaping people as subjects and formin...

A groundbreaking reassessment of Symbolist artists and writers that investigates the concerns the...

The new form of 'humanitarian government' emerging from natural disasters and military occupation...

A butterfly is like another butterfly. A butterfly is also like a leaf and at the same time like ...

A novel attempt to make sense of our preoccupation with copies of all kinds--from counterfeits to...

The past, present, and future prospects of nongovernmental politics--political activism that with...

From late medieval reenactments of the Deposition from the Cross to Sol Lewitts Buried Cube, Depo...

Ten Thousand Things explores the many forms of life, or, in ancient Chinese parlance the ten thou...

In The Demon of Writing, Ben Kafka offers a critical history and theory of one of the most ubiqui...

'This book is about 1960's Italian art and its troubled but also resourceful relation to the hist...

The emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences, as revealed through images i...

'This book digs into the rich and mostly unexplored history of how the human sciences approached ...

Two leading contemporary art historians present a stunning reconsideration of the problem of time...

'Plagues and pandemics confront societies with something they often seek to deny, namely that mor...

'Between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries, European Christians used in worship a plethora ...

A new mapping of castrato afterlives in modern RomeAround 1830, opera houses stopped using castra...

The Normal and the Pathological is one of the crucial contributions to the history of science in ...

Caroline Walker Bynum examines diverse medieval texts to show how women were able to appropriate ...

Wonders and the Order of Nature is about the ways in which European naturalists from the High Mid...

For the past four hundred years, hearing has been understood as involving the sympathetic resonan...

'From missing persons to disenfranchised civil subjects, from individuals tainted with infamy to ...

An examination of pleasure--short-term delight and the cultivation of longer-term satisfaction--i...

An investigation of the roots of the alliance between free-market neoliberals and social conserva...

Internationally renowned philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s bold redefinition of methodological inquir...

Jean-Pierre Vernant delineates a compelling new vision of ancient Greece that takes us far from t...

Part of Bataille's 'Copernican' project to overturn not only economic thought but its ethical fou...

At age 54, Michael Murphy's life drastically changed... but he refused to give up.The doctors tho...