Long out of print, this seminal collection of essays and photographs are by artist, theorist and filmmaker, Allan Sekula. Originally published by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1984, in these essays and images Sekula sought to portray the inextricable bond between labour and material culture, drawing deeply on Marxist theory to argue passionately for a collective ...(展开全部)

In his fascinating last book, Edward Said looks at a selection of essays, poems, novels, films, and operas to determine what late style may explain about the evolution of the creative life. He discusses how the approaching death of an artist can make its way “with anachronism and anomaly” into his work, as was the case in the late work of Thomas Mann, Richard Strauss, Jean Gene...(展开全部)

In this fascinating book, Edward Said looks at the creative contradictions that often mark the late works of literary and musical artists. Said shows how the approaching death of an artist can make its way into his work, examining essays, poems, novels, films, and operas by such artists as Beethoven, Genet, Mozart, Lampedusa, Euripides, Cavafy, and Mann, among others. He unco...(展开全部)

In his fascinating last book, Edward Said looks at a selection of essays, poems, novels, films, and operas to determine what late style may explain about the evolution of the creative life. He discusses how the approaching death of an artist can make its way “with anachronism and anomaly” into his work, as was the case in the late work of Thomas Mann, Richard Strauss, Jean Gene...(展开全部)

"Against Interpretation" was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, among them "On Style", "Notes on 'Camp", and the titular essay "Against Interpretation", where Sontag argues that ...(展开全部)

"Against Interpretation" was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, among them "On Style", "Notes on 'Camp", and the titular essay "Against Interpretation", where Sontag argues that ...(展开全部)

瓦尔·威廉姆斯（Val Williams）是伦敦传播学院和伦敦艺术大学的摄影文化与历史学教授以及摄影和档案研究中心主任。她曾策划了1994年在维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆举行的“战争作品”（Warworks）展，1998年在国家摄影博物馆举行了“新自然历史”（New Natural History）展，2002年在巴比肯艺术馆举行了“马丁·帕尔摄影作品”（Martin Parr Photographic Works）展，以及2007年在英国塔特美术馆举行了“我们怎样：影像英国”（How We Are: Photographing Britain）展。 2005年，她因策展活动而获得了由皇家摄影协会颁布的达德利·约翰斯顿奖章。她还是2008年开始推出的《摄影与文化杂志》的主笔。她之前出版的作品包括《谁在关注家庭？》（1994），《马丁·帕尔：摄影作品197...(展开全部)

Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today’s states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secu...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·C.斯科特（James C. Scott），1936年生，现为耶鲁大学政治学和人类学斯特林讲席教授，创立并主持耶鲁农政研究中心。斯科特于1992年当选为美国人文与科学院院士，1997年至1998年担任亚洲研究协会主席。2020年，美国社会科学研究委员会将最高荣誉“阿尔伯特·赫希曼奖”授予斯科特，以表彰他“广博而卓越的跨学科研究”。其主要著作《农民的道义经济学》《弱者的武器》《支配与抵抗艺术》《国家的视角》《逃避统治的艺术》均有中译本，读者众多。 田雷，华东师范大学法学院教授、立法与法治战略研究中心主任。先后就读于南京大学法学院、香港中文大学政治学系、耶鲁大学法学院，2008年于香港中文大学获得政治学博士。近期出版专著《继往以为序章：中国宪法的制度展开》，译著《我们的孩子》《娇惯的心灵》《寒门子弟上大学》。“雅理”出版策划与主理人。

Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today’s states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secu...(展开全部)