The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernist thought

In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of dispossession, precarity, and the differential distribution of life chances. Despite this shift, queer theory finds itself constantly reabsorbed into the liberal project of diversity management. This theoretical and political weakness, Petru...(展开全部)

This book argues that identified weaknesses in recent theological engagement with New Materialism can be successfully addressed by incorporating insights from Relational Christian Realism. Central themes are those of the relational and the apophatic as they represent different but essential strands of a materialist theology. The relational refers to the work of Deleuze and its ...(展开全部)

馬特．松田（Matt K. Matsuda） 美國紐澤西州立羅格斯大學歷史系教授，研究領域為現代歐洲和亞太比較史。另著有《現代的記憶》（The Memory of the Modern）、《太平洋世界》（Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures）、《太平洋歷史教學入門》（A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories: Ten Design Principles）。 譯者簡介 丁超 美國麻州大學碩士。美、加地區求學、工作、定居多年。曾任職企管顧問公司，現為自由譯者。譯有《旅館》（八旗出版）、《酒的科學》、《辣椒獵人的辛香探險》、《簡明大歷史》、《第二種不可能》等書，著有網路小說《民國童話》。

Featuring a sweeping array of essays from scholars of state formation and development, this book presents an overview of approaches to studying the history of the state. Focusing on the question of state formation, this volume takes a particular look at the beginnings, structures, and constant reforming of state power. Not only do the contributors draw upon both modernist and p...(展开全部)

In an age of digital technology and renewed anxiety about media piracy, "Inherent Vice" revisits the recent analog past with an eye-opening exploration of the aesthetic and legal innovations of home video. Analog videotape was introduced to consumers as a blank format, essentially as a bootleg technology, for recording television without permission. The studios initially resist...(展开全部)

What was sex like in China, from imperial times through the post-Mao era? The answer depends, of course, on who was having sex, where they were located in time and place, and what kind of familial, social, and political structures they participated in. This collection offers a variety of perspectives by addressing diverse topics such as polygamy, pornography, free love, eugenic...(展开全部)

What was sex like in China, from imperial times through the post-Mao era? The answer depends, of course, on who was having sex, where they were located in time and place, and what kind of familial, social, and political structures they participated in. This collection offers a variety of perspectives by addressing diverse topics such as polygamy, pornography, free love, eugenic...(展开全部)

We live in a world saturated by future-consciousness. Our lives are constructed around expectations of the future as full and as flawed as our understandings of the past. This volume is a conceptual tool kit for thinking about the hopes and anxieties embodied in ideas of the future. Exploring links between panic and nostalgia, waiting and utopia, technology and messianism, and ...(展开全部)