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Biological existence and its theoretical complexities. (opens the original)
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Evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin argued that organisms do not adapt to their environments, but rather that organisms and environments co-evolve and construct one another. Two new books in the University of Minnesota Press’s Posthumanities series take up this decree in bold, imaginative ways: The Organism Is a Theory: Giuseppe Longo on Biology, Mathematics, and AI by Giuseppe Longo and Adam Nocek; and Natural Lection: Cultures of Evolution by Jonathan Basile. Here, series editor Cary Wolfe
On revolutionary desire and decolonial struggle (opens the original)
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Set in the counterterrorism courts and maximum-security prisons of Northern Kurdistan, Serra M. Hakyemez’s ethnography Deadly Refusals: Kurdish Decolonization in Times of Counterterrorism examines how prosecuted and imprisoned Kurds from different socioeconomic backgrounds organize in refusal of the criminalization and colonization of their political demands and desires. Based on more than seventeen years of ethnographic research, this book uncovers the mechanisms through which counterterrorism
Montage and French cinematic history (opens the original)
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Amid the tumult of change that swept through French society in the wake of World War II, a trio of visionary filmmakers sought to make meaning of the chaos by revitalizing a common method: montage. Revealing Nicole Védrès, Alain Resnais, and Chris Marker as more than just groundbreaking auteurs, Ivan Cerecina shows how their collective infusion of montage with avant-garde aesthetics renewed the art of cinema while helping France reckon with its past and imagine its future. Cerecina’s book Assemb
Walter Benjamin, reimagined through the forgotten power of radio (opens the original)
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Between 1927 and 1933, philosopher Walter Benjamin produced dozens of radio broadcasts that became a testing ground for his developing ideas and experimental pedagogy. Initially cast off as inconsequential, they are, as Dominic Smith reveals in Bridging Benjamin , a fruitful site for an original interpretation of Benjamin’s larger body of work. Here, Smith is in conversation with Esther Leslie. Dominic Smith is senior lecturer of philosophy at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He is author of
George Brecht to Game Boy: A history of play and playfulness (opens the original)
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In his study of how a new and messy set of codes about playfulness took shape in the postwar US, Peter D. McDonald illuminates how playfulness became essential for understanding cultural, technical, and economic production. From Fluxus to the Easy-Bake Oven to Tetris to SimCity , The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play charts the transformation of our understanding of what it means to play. Here, McDonald is joined in conversation with Tiffany Funk and Chaz Evans. Peter D. McDonald is
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