In this major reassessment of Japanese imperialism in Asia, Mark Driscoll foregrounds the role of human life and labor. Drawing on subaltern postcolonial studies and Marxism, he directs critical attention to the peripheries, where figures including Chinese coolies, Japanese pimps, trafficked Japanese women, and Korean tenant farmers supplied the vital energy that drove Japan's ...(展开全部)

Sex and the Failed Absolute provides nothing short of a new definition of dialectical materialism. Radical new readings of Kant and Hegel sit side by side with lively commentaries on film, politics and culture. And in forging this new materialism, Žižek doesn't shy away from taking on and analysising important recent philosophies such as the work of Alain Badiou, Robert Brandom...(展开全部)

They are the World’s Greatest Super-Heroes. But the members of the fabled Justice League of America are about to learn they aren't the only ones who can band together toward a common goal. The deadliest criminal masterminds of our time appear to be acting in concert — with a surprising plan that seeks to achieve more good than the JLA ever could! But it’s just the latest att...(展开全部)

They are the World’s Greatest Super-Heroes. But the members of the fabled Justice League of America are about to learn they aren't the only ones who can band together toward a common goal. The deadliest criminal masterminds of our time appear to be acting in concert — with a surprising plan that seeks to achieve more good than the JLA ever could! But it’s just the latest att...(展开全部)

Can the President get away with murder?The fictional answer to this question results in a fast-paced page turner that combinespolitical intrigue with gritty, hard-boiled suspense

In a heavily guarded mansion in a posh Virginia suburb, a man and a woman start to make love, trapping Luther Whitney, a career break-in artist, behind a secret wall. Then the passion turns deadly, and Luther is running into the night. Because what he has just seen is a brutal murder involving Alan Richmond, the president of the United States, the man with...Absolute Power.

This lucid, philosophically sophisticated book is the first account of Lacan's development in its intellectual-historical context, the first account of the philosophical significance of his theory, and to date the best introduction to his thought. Beacuse Lacan is—the author argues—a superme assimilator, a son of his times, and thus the most representative French intellectual s...(展开全部)

This lucid, philosophically sophisticated book is the first account of Lacan's development in its intellectual-historical context, the first account of the philosophical significance of his theory, and to date the best introduction to his thought. Beacuse Lacan is—the author argues—a superme assimilator, a son of his times, and thus the most representative French intellectual s...(展开全部)

Can capital be seen? Cartographies of the Absolute surveys the disparate answers to this question offered by artists, film-makers, writers and theorists over the past few decades. It zones in on the crises of representation that have accompanied the enduring crisis of capitalism, foregrounding the production of new visions and artefacts that wrestle with the vastness, invisibil...(展开全部)