The continuously accelerating phenomenon of urbanization continues to be one of the great challenges of our time, surfacing repeatedly as an issue in different areas of the world for two hundred years. In a world that has been redefined by a proliferation of communication networks and by a progressive erasure of borders, Mutations reflects on the transformations that these acce...(展开全部)

The continuously accelerating phenomenon of urbanization continues to be one of the great challenges of our time, surfacing repeatedly as an issue in different areas of the world for two hundred years. In a world that has been redefined by a proliferation of communication networks and by a progressive erasure of borders, Mutations reflects on the transformations that these acce...(展开全部)

Ramón Martinez is a militant atheist, successful lawyer, and conventional family man. But all of that changes when cancer of the tongue deprives him of the source of his power and livelihood: speech. The Mutations, by Jorge Comensal, is a comedy tracing the metastasis of Ramón’s cancer through his body and in the lives of his family members, colleagues, and doctors, dissecting ...(展开全部)

Communicology is Vilém Flusser's first thesis on his concepts of technical images and technical imagination. In this foundational text he lays the groundwork for later work, offering a philosophical approach to communication as a phenomenon that permeates every aspect of human existence. Clearly organized around questions such as "What is Communication?," "What are Codes?," and...(展开全部)

Communicology is Vilém Flusser's first thesis on his concepts of technical images and technical imagination. In this foundational text he lays the groundwork for later work, offering a philosophical approach to communication as a phenomenon that permeates every aspect of human existence. Clearly organized around questions such as "What is Communication?," "What are Codes?," and...(展开全部)

Neoliberalism is commonly viewed as an economic doctrine that seeks to limit the scope of government. Some consider it a form of predatory capitalism with adverse effects on the Global South. In this groundbreaking work, Aihwa Ong offers an alternative view of neoliberalism as an extraordinarily malleable technology of governing that is taken up in different ways by different r...(展开全部)

Aihwa Ong is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems (coedited with Stephen J. Collier); Buddha Is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America; and Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality, winner of the Association for Asian Am...(展开全部)

Neoliberalism is commonly viewed as an economic doctrine that seeks to limit the scope of government. Some consider it a form of predatory capitalism with adverse effects on the Global South. In this groundbreaking work, Aihwa Ong offers an alternative view of neoliberalism as an extraordinarily malleable technology of governing that is taken up in different ways by different r...(展开全部)

Abstract Sex investigates the impact of advances in contemporary science and information technology on conceptions of sex. Evolutionary theory and the technologies of viral information transfer, cloning and genetic engineering are changing the way we think about human sex, reproduction and the communication of genetic information. Sex is no longer a linear proces or a private a...(展开全部)

让-雅克•库尔第纳（Jean-Jacques COURTINE），巴黎第三大学——新索邦大学文化人类学教授。他出版了许多语言学和话语分析的著作，其中有《政治话语分析》，还有一些关于身体的历史人类学著作（《面部表情的历史：从16到19世纪情感的表达和缄默》，与克罗蒂娜•阿罗什合著）。目前他致力于畸形人表演的研究：他新近重编了厄内斯特•马丁的《畸胎史》（1880年），并即将出版《日薄西山的畸形人行业：学者、窥淫癖者以及好奇者（16到20世纪）》。 孙圣英，1976年生，山东人，法国文学博士，国际关系学院法语教师，副教授。先后就读于厦门大学、外交学院和中国社会科学院外国文学研究所，主要研究方向为二十世纪法国文学，已翻译出版数部作品，如《图书馆之恋》、《陆地上的男人》（节译）等。 赵济鸿，1980年生，浙江绍兴人，2008年7月获得厦门大学法语语言文学硕士，...(展开全部)