In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing black life under slavery, such as branding, runaway slave notices, and lantern laws....(展开全部)

In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing black life under slavery, such as branding, runaway slave notices, and lantern laws....(展开全部)

In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"—the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead, coming to consciousness—Sharpe illustrates how Black lives are swept up and animated by...(展开全部)

In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"—the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead, coming to consciousness—Sharpe illustrates how Black lives are swept up and animated by...(展开全部)

巴顿·格尔曼（Barton Gellman） 美国知名调查记者，三度斩获普利策奖，两次荣获乔治·波尔卡新闻奖，还曾获得哈佛大学肯尼迪学院颁发的“调查报道金匠奖”。自2013年起在美国世纪基金会担任资深研究员。此前曾在《华盛顿邮报》任职21年，先后担任法律、军事、外交、国际版块记者。曾著有美国前副总统迪克·切尼的传记《垂钓者》，入选《纽约时报》畅销书。

巴顿·格尔曼（Barton Gellman） 美国知名调查记者，三度斩获普利策奖，两次荣获乔治·波尔卡新闻奖，还曾获得哈佛大学肯尼迪学院颁发的“调查报道金匠奖”。自2013年起在美国世纪基金会担任资深研究员。此前曾在《华盛顿邮报》任职21年，先后担任法律、军事、外交、国际版块记者。曾著有美国前副总统迪克·切尼的传记《垂钓者》，入选《纽约时报》畅销书。

巴顿·格尔曼（Barton Gellman） 美国知名调查记者，三度斩获普利策奖，两次荣获乔治·波尔卡新闻奖，还曾获得哈佛大学肯尼迪学院颁发的“调查报道金匠奖”。自2013年起在美国世纪基金会担任资深研究员。此前曾在《华盛顿邮报》任职21年，先后担任法律、军事、外交、国际版块记者。曾著有美国前副总统迪克·切尼的传记《垂钓者》，入选《纽约时报》畅销书。

On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons, rationality, and normativity, and a critical examination of three systematic moral theories - Kant's ethics, contractualism, and conse...(展开全部)

On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons, rationality, and normativity, and a critical examination of three systematic moral theories - Kant's ethics, contractualism, and conse...(展开全部)

Tenth anniversary edition • With a new Introduction by the author In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Lou Arrendale, a high-functioning autistic adult, is a member of the lost generation, born at the wrong time to reap the rewards of medical science. He lives a low-key, indep...(展开全部)