Brian Massumi is Professor in the Communication Department at the University of Montreal. He is the author of Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts and Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation, which is also published by Duke University Press.

In What Animals Teach Us about Politics, Brian Massumi takes up the question of "the animal." By treating the human as animal, he develops a concept of an animal politics. His is not a human politics of the animal, but an integrally animal politics, freed from connotations of the "primitive" state of nature and the accompanying presuppositions about instinct permeating modern t...(展开全部)

Our evolutionary ancestors once possessed the ability to intuit what food their bodies needed, in what proportions, and ate the right things in the proper amounts—perfect nutritional harmony. From wild baboons to gooey slime molds, most every living organism instinctually knows how to balance their diets, except modern-day humans. When and why did we lose this ability, and how ...(展开全部)

Our evolutionary ancestors once possessed the ability to intuit what food their bodies needed, in what proportions, and ate the right things in the proper amounts—perfect nutritional harmony. From wild baboons to gooey slime molds, most every living organism instinctually knows how to balance their diets, except modern-day humans. When and why did we lose this ability, and how ...(展开全部)

It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls “melancholy historicism”—a kind of crime scene investigation in which the forensic imagination is directed toward the recovery of a “we” at the point of “our” violent origin. Best argues that ...(展开全部)

It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls “melancholy historicism”—a kind of crime scene investigation in which the forensic imagination is directed toward the recovery of a “we” at the point of “our” violent origin. Best argues that ...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly: If you thought McDonald's and strip malls were the ugliest of America's cultural exports, think again. Western ideas about mental illness-from anorexia to post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, general anxiety and clinical depression-as well as Western treatments have been sweeping the globe with alarming speed, argues journalist Watters (Urban T...(展开全部)

Ethan Watters explores the American exportation of how the world goes mad.

伊森·沃特斯 Ethan Watters，美国著名作家、记者，过去30年以来长期致力于精神医学和社会心理学方面的非虚构写作，代表作《城市部落》 《制造怪兽》。他的著作曾入选美国 “最佳自然科学”系列丛书。作为记者，沃特斯的写作生涯开始于调查并报道日托儿童虐待、撒旦教 阴谋论以及其他都市神话，他也是第一位在美国国家级的刊物上曝光心理治疗师族群中所存在的故意暗示引导他们的病人陈述自己有“被恢复了”的早期童年创伤记忆的记者。沃特斯目前与太太和孩子生活在美国旧金山。 译者 黄晓楠，女，南京师范大学文学学士，富勒心理研究所婚姻家庭治疗硕士(M.S.MFT)。现于上海关怀心理咨询中心任专职咨询师，致力于临床实践和心理学著作翻译工作。