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Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology by Foucault, Michel
$26.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Aesthetics offers a focused study on the philosophy, literature and art which have informed Foucault's particular engagement with ethics and power, including brilliant commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, Roussel and Boulez.
Avidly Reads Making Out by Kathryn Bond Stockton
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle, Avidly--an online magazine supported by the Los Angeles Review of Books--specializes in short-form critical essays devoted to thinking and feeling. Avidly Reads is an exciting new ...Show more
Avidly Reads Theory by Jordan Alexander Stein
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle, Avidly--an online magazine supported by the Los Angeles Review of Books--specializes in short-form critical essays devoted to thinking and feeling. Avidly Reads is an exciting new ...Show more
Bodies by Susie Orbach
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
'A smart and rich compendium of what is going on within and without our bodies today ... in this brave and significant book, Orbach does battle with a full quiver of her own fire-tipped arrows, her blazing firebrand levelled at self-hatred in all its forms.' the TimesIn the past decades, the pressure to ...Show more
City of Trees: Essays on Life, Death and the Need for a Forest by Sophie Cunningham
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
How do we take in the beauty of our planet while processing the losses? What trees can survive in the city? Which animals can survive in the wild? How do any of us--humans, animals, trees--find a forest we can call home? In these moving, thought-provoking essays Sophie Cunningham considers the meaning ...Show more
Decolonizing Solidarity: Dilemmas and Directions for Supporters of Indigenous Struggles by Clare Land
$85.00 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: General Adult
In this highly original and much-needed book, Clare Land interrogates the often fraught endeavours of activists from colonial backgrounds seeking to be politically supportive of Indigenous struggles. Blending key theoretical and practical questions, Land argues that the predominant impulses which drive ...Show more
Disobey - A Guide to Ethical Resistance by Frederic Gros
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
The world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent act for everyone. In this provocative essay, Fr d ric Gros explores the roots of political obedience, social conformity, economic subjection, respect for authorities, constitutional consensus. Examining the various styles of obedi ...Show more
Dizzy Limits - Recent Experiments in Australian Nonfiction by contributors, Various
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
What is ‘experimental nonfiction’? Like all nonfiction writing it is steeped in facts, in real events, and in real people, with the aim of communicating information, argument, and truth. It differs from traditional nonfiction in that it tries to convey its meaning using unorthodox form, or style, or voi ...Show more
Ethics: Subjectivity & Truth: Essential Works of Michael Foucault 1954-1984 by Foucault, Michel
$26.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ethics is taken from the highly influential series of courses Foucault taught at the College de France from 1970 to 1982. This volume also includes a selection of engaging and unusually candid interviews, as well as excerpts from Foucault's key writing on ethics.
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for Zadie Smith's insatiable curiosity. From social media to the environment, Tarantino to Jay-Z to Knausgaard, she has endless fascination and the boundless wit, insight and wisdom to match. In Feel Free, pop culture, high culture, social change and political ...Show more
From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting PB by Judith Brett
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
It's compulsory to vote in Australia. We are one of a handful of countries in the world that enforce this rule at election time, and the only English-speaking country that makes its citizens vote. Not only that, we embrace it. We celebrate compulsory voting with barbeques and cake stalls at polling stat ...Show more
Funny Weather - Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
$44.99 AUD
Category: General
'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' Telegraph In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty first century. Funn ...Show more