Paul Virilio is a challenging and original thinker whose work on technology, state power and war is increasingly relevant today. Exploring Virilio's main texts from their political and historical contexts, and case studies from contemporary culture and media in order to explain his philosophical concepts, Ian James introduces the key themes in Virlio's work, including:
speed
virtualization
war
politics
art.
As technological and scientific innovations continue to set the agenda for the present and future...
Paul Virilio is a challenging and original thinker whose work on technology, state power and war is increasingly relevant today. Exploring Virilio'...
Published in two volumes, these books provide a student audience with an excellent scholarly edition of Malthus' Essay on Population. Written in 1798 as a polite attack on post-French revolutionary speculations on the theme of social and human perfectibility, it remains one of the most powerful statements of the limits to human hopes set by the tension between population growth and natural resources. Based on the authoritative variorum edition of the versions of the Essay published between 1803 and 1826, and complete with full introduction and bibliographic apparatus, this edition is intended...
Published in two volumes, these books provide a student audience with an excellent scholarly edition of Malthus' Essay on Population. Written in 1798 ...
Health and the Sociology of Emotions offers an appraisal of the current lively debates which challenge the contribution of the sociology of emotion to health, and of sociology of health and illness to a sociological understanding of emotion.
Health and the Sociology of Emotions offers an appraisal of the current lively debates which challenge the contribution of the sociology of em...
Organized into two parts, "Literary Theory" and "Social and Political Theory," this Reader explores issues of community, identity, justice, and the marginalization of African American and Caribbean women in literature, society, and political movements.
Organized into two parts, "Literary Theory" and "Social and Political Theory," this Reader explores issues of community, identity, justice, and the ma...
Assassinations cast a long shadow on the history of the United States. Presidents, Congressmen, governors, mayors, state legislators, judges, and other prominent public figures all have been the targets of disturbed or fanatical individuals bent on murder as an expression of their real or imagined grievances. After every such occurrence, the press and the public express shock and demand explanations, hoping that an analysis of the cause may serve to prevent future killings, or at least help to develop better means to protect potential targets in the future. "Assassination and Political...
Assassinations cast a long shadow on the history of the United States. Presidents, Congressmen, governors, mayors, state legislators, judges, and othe...
