Despite China's recent emergence as a major global economic and geopolitical power, its association with counterfeit goods and intellectual property piracy has led many in the West to dismiss its urbanization and globalization as suspect or inauthentic. In Underglobalization Joshua Neves examines the cultural politics of the “fake” and how frictions between legality and legitim...(展开全部)

"This book is comprehensive and magisterial, and at the same time enormously readable. It will undoubtedly become one of the very few definitive texts in the rapidly growing field of media and cultural studies, providing a crucial link to critical theory and to social theory as a whole." Professor William Outhwaite, University of Sussex "An extremely powerful and sustained diag...(展开全部)

In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Löwith's well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, which promises a dramatic intervention that will consummate the history of the world from outside. Instead, Blumenberg argues, the idea of progress always implies a process at work within history, operating through an inter...(展开全部)

In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Löwith's well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, which promises a dramatic intervention that will consummate the history of the world from outside. Instead, Blumenberg argues, the idea of progress always implies a process at work within history, operating through an inter...(展开全部)

More than 130 years after Karl Marx’s death and 150 years after the publication of his opus magnum Capital: Critique of Political Economy, capitalism keeps being haunted by period crises. The most recent capitalist crisis has brought back attention to Marx’s works. This volume presents 18 contributions that show how Marx’s analyses of capitalism, the commodity, class, labour, w...(展开全部)

戴维·J. 贡克尔（David J. Gunkel）：北伊利诺伊大学传播学教授，《齐泽克研究国际期刊》执行主编。 保罗·A. 泰勒（Paul A. Taylor）：利兹大学媒体与传播学院副教授。 译者简介： 吴江，首都师范大学政法学院讲师，主要研究方向：政治哲学和社会科学方法论。

Slavoj Zizek reaches the parts of the media that other theorists cannot. With sources ranging from Thomas Aquinas to Quentin Tarantino and Desperate Housewives to Dostoyevsky, Zizek mixes high theory with low culture more engagingly than any other thinker alive today. His prolific output includes such media friendly content as a TV series (The Pervert's Guide to Cinema) a docum...(展开全部)

作者简介 哈特穆特·韦斯勒(Hartmut Wessler)，德国曼海姆大学媒体和传播学教授，同时担任曼海姆欧洲社会研究中心(MZES)的项目主任。曾在德国柏林自由大学和美国印第安纳大学学习传播学、政治学和社会学，并于1998年获得汉堡大学博士学位。 他的研究聚焦于大众媒体和社交媒体上公共辩论的质量，尤为关注哈贝马斯提出的公共商议理论。他的论文发表于Journal of Communication, Political Communication,the International Journal of Press/Politics等知名传播学期刊。其著作《哈贝马斯论媒介》于2019年荣获德国传播学会理论奖。 译者简介 闫文捷，北京师范大学新闻传播学院副教授、博士生导师，浙江省之江青年学者。美国威斯康星大学-麦迪逊校区传播学博士。曾先后就任美国华盛顿...(展开全部)

With books such as Discourse Networks and Gramophone, Film, Typewriter and the collection Literature, Media, Information Systems, Friedrich Kittler has established himself as one of the world's most influential media theorists. He is also one of the most controversial and misunderstood. Kittler and the Media offers students of media theory an introduction to Kittler's basic ide...(展开全部)

With books such as Discourse Networks and Gramophone, Film, Typewriter and the collection Literature, Media, Information Systems , Friedrich Kittler has established himself as one of the world's most influential media theorists. He is also one of the most controversial and misunderstood. Kittler and the Medi a offers students of media theory an introduction to Kittler's b...(展开全部)