Are we living in a post-truth world, where “alternative facts” replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of “fake news,” from our psychological blind spots to the public’s r...(展开全部)

Post-Cinematic Affect is about what it feels like to live in the affluent West in the early 21st century. Specifically, it explores the structure of feeling that is emerging today in tandem with new digital technologies, together with economic globalization and the financialization of more and more human activities. The 20th century was the age of film and television; these dom...(展开全部)

Are we living in a post-truth world, where “alternative facts” replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of “fake news,” from our psychological blind spots to the public’s r...(展开全部)

随着全球资本主义势不可挡的扩张，二十世纪欧洲哲学家们所谈论的无家可归状态——海德格尔宣称这已成为“世界的命运”——其后果注定会变得越发病态。但与其幻想着对家园的一种不可能的回归，许煜指出，如今思考必须从无家可归的状态出发。 许煜吸收了吉尔贝·西蒙东、雅克·德里达、贝尔纳·斯蒂格勒和扬·帕托契卡的哲学思考以及西田几多郎、西谷启治、牟宗三等人的思想，以构想一种后欧洲思考的哲学计划。如果亚洲与欧洲要设计出对抗资本主义、技术以及行星化的新模式，那么这既不是通过中和差异也并非回归传统，而是以东西方思想间的个体化来实现。 With the unstoppable advance of global capitalism, the Heimatlosigkeit (homelessness) which twentieth-century European phi...(展开全部)

"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day-...(展开全部)

Drucker's vision of a "post-capitalist society"--one in which knowledge is the basic resource and nation-states compete with transnational, regional and tribal structures--is hardly original. What is new in this invigorating essay is his far-reaching analysis of the economic crisis of militarized, wasteful "megastates" like the United States and the former Soviet Union, which h...(展开全部)

In this revised edition of the bestselling Emily Post on Etiquette (80,000 copies sold), Mrs. Post answers the most commonly asked questions about etiquette at home and on the job.

A history of the postal system that once connected the Ottoman Empire Before the advent of steamships or the telegraph, the premier technology for long-distance communication was the horse-run relay system. Every empire had one—including the Ottoman Empire. In The Sublime Post, Choon Hwee Koh examines how the vast Ottoman postal system worked across three centuries by tracking...(展开全部)