For readers versed in critical theory, German and comparative literature, or media studies, a new book by Samuel Weber is essential reading. Singularity is no exception. Bringing together two decades of his essays, it hones in on the surprising implications of the singular and its historical relation to the individual in politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and litera...(展开全部)

In these new essays, a group of experienced ethnographers, a literary critic, and a historian of anthropology, all known for advanced analytic work on ethnographic writing, place ethnography at the center of a new intersection of social history, interpretive anthropology, travel writing, discourse theory, and textual criticism. The authors analyze classic examples of cultural d...(展开全部)

This seminal collection of essays critiquing ethnography as literature is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, exploring the ways in which Writing Culture has changed the face of ethnography over the last 25 years.

Debating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how art and artifacts are displayed and understood. The contributors—museum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropology—represent a variety...(展开全部)

This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series, headed by Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania). In Chinese literary history, the construction of images of beautiful women by literati tended to reach a high tide during periods of political crisis. This study focuses on two related fin-de-siècle moments at the turns of the seventeenth century from the late Ming to the ear...(展开全部)

Building on the work of Raymond Williams, Terry Eagleton and Fredric Jameson, Hartley delineates the historical and conceptual preconditions for the emergence of a politics of style’, and uncovers an underground current of stylistics within the Marxist tradition from Marx to Barthes. Sets out an independent and ambitious theory of style as a foundational element of a new Marxis...(展开全部)

In the twenty-first century man created the Eschaton, a sentient artificial intelligence. It pushed Earth through the greatest technological evolution ever known, while warning that time travel is forbidden, and transgressors will be eliminated. Distant descendants of this ultra high-tech Earth live in parochial simplicity on the far-flung worlds of the New Republic. Their way ...(展开全部)

查尔斯·斯特罗斯：布莱福德大学修计算机科学硕士。出生在英格兰北端邻近苏格兰的利兹，儿时便立志当科幻作家。八年间出版了十六本长篇小说。作品屡次入围雨果奖、英伦科幻协会奖、约翰·坎贝尔纪念奖及轨迹奖等众多科幻大奖。 《奇点天空》于2003年出版后入围了2004年雨果奖，在轨迹奖年度排名第七，也在译成日文后入围日本星云赏。 . 寇乐眉：译作多署名denovo。海外科学工作者，闲来读书写字，爬山潜水，溜冰滑雪，无一不好而无一能精。一生做事三心二意蜻蜓点水，唯有科幻翻译竟然兢兢业业坚持至今，只能用一个词解释——有爱！ . 郭泽，业余翻译爱好者，尤喜科幻。 已出版幻想类翻译作品：长篇《西塔甘达》、《孤儿远征军》、《提升之战》、《雪崩》等；中短篇《冰龙》、《卡米洛特的最后一个卫士》《时代之子》。

Four hundred years in the future, time travel has been perfected and groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence have been made. But is this a great step forward for humanity--or its ultimate downfall?