A disturbing portrait of a society deliriously dreaming itself as eternal, instantaneous, and infinite. At least for the time being, we humans are still finite and mortal—but death isn't what it used to be. As the body is technologically extended in space and time, we are split between our finitude and our doubled presence in a limitless web of signs, an “immortal” world of inf...(展开全部)

A disturbing portrait of a society deliriously dreaming itself as eternal, instantaneous, and infinite. At least for the time being, we humans are still finite and mortal—but death isn't what it used to be. As the body is technologically extended in space and time, we are split between our finitude and our doubled presence in a limitless web of signs, an “immortal” world of inf...(展开全部)

READ ALL AGATHA CHRISTIE? TRY A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY Private detective and poet Nigel Strangeways is visiting an Ivy League university near Boston when one of the tutors is found murdered. Can Nigel help the police catch the killer? The sixteenth Nigel Strangeways mystery. A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY Private detective and poet Nigel Strangeways is staying at Cabot University, an...(展开全部)

READ ALL AGATHA CHRISTIE? TRY A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY Private detective and poet Nigel Strangeways is visiting an Ivy League university near Boston when one of the tutors is found murdered. Can Nigel help the police catch the killer? The sixteenth Nigel Strangeways mystery. A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY Private detective and poet Nigel Strangeways is staying at Cabot University, an...(展开全部)

In 1968, Michel Foucault agreed to a series of interviews with critic Claude Bonnefoy, which were to be published in book form. Bonnefoy wanted a dialogue with Foucault about his relationship to writing rather than about the content of his books. The project was abandoned, but a transcript of the initial interview survived and is now being published for the first time in Englis...(展开全部)

These two gentlemen dedicated 20 years to collecting the best/worst, unintentionally appalling videotapes ever produced. The kind of thing that makes Ed the Duck look highbrow. This handsome compendium brings all the covers together into one place. 272 pages, nearly every page is full-color and ridiculous.