April 2008 Cultural Studies
Does Ethics Have A Chance In A World Of Consumers
$52.95 (Hardcover book / Harvard Univ Pr )
Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most admired social thinkers of our time. Once a Marxist sociologist, he has surrendered the narrowness of both Marxism and sociology, and dares to write in language that ordinary people can ... More »
Joe In The Andamans And Other Fictocritical Stories
$24.95 (Paperback book / Local Consumption Publications )
In this collection of philosophical and personal stories, Stephen Muecke applies theory to everyday life, engaging with postcolonial ideas while on the road in Madagascar, Mt Dromedary, and with his son in the Andaman Is... More »
Smart Living Lifestyle Media And Popular Experise
$54.95 (Paperback book / Peter Lang Pub )
What do the Fab Five from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, the Supernanny and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver all have in common? Lifestyle gurus are increasingly intruding on everyday life, directing ordinary people to see t... More »
Echolalias On The Forgetting Of Language
$33.95 (Paperback book / Mit Press )
Just as speech can be acquired, so can it be lost. Speakers can forget words, phrases, even entire languages they once knew; over the course of time peoples, too, let go of the tongues that were once theirs, as languages... More »
The Porn Report
$34.95 (Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press )
The Porn Report is a radical new way of thinking about the place of pornography in society. The writers draw on wide-ranging empirical research to show the production, distribution and consumption of pornography; its con... More »
New Black: Mourning Melancholia and Depression
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton )
What happens when we lose someone we love? A death, a separation or the break-up of a relationship are some of the hardest times we have to live through. We may fall into a nightmare of depression, lose the will to live ... More »
The City Of Words: The Massey Lectures 2007
$24.95 (Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr )
'And yet stories, even the best and truest, can't save us from our own folly. Stories can't protect us from suffering and error, from natural and artificial catastrophes, from our own suicidal greed. The only thing they ... More »
Figures Of The Thinkable
$41.95 (Paperback book / Stanford Univ. Press )
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