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        Philosophy of the Tourist

        Philosophy of the Tourist

        Philosophy of the Tourist

        by Hiroki Azuma

        ISBN: 9781915103000

        Publisher: Urbanomic

        Pub Date: April 11, 2023

        An inventive philosophical study that reconsiders the figure of the tourist.
        Philosophy for Passengers

        Philosophy for Passengers

        Philosophy for Passengers

        by Michael Marder

        ISBN: 9780262543712

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 3, 2022

        A philosophical guide to passengerhood, with reflections on time, space, existence, boredom, our sense of self, and our sense of the senses.
        After Death

        After Death

        After Death

        by François J. Bonnet

        Translated by Amy Ireland

        ISBN: 9781913029708

        Publisher: Urbanomic

        Pub Date: August 11, 2020

        A disturbing portrait of a society deliriously dreaming itself as eternal, instantaneous, and infinite.
        On Anger

        On Anger

        On Anger

        Edited by Agnes Callard

        Foreword by Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen

        ISBN: 9781946511546

        Publisher: Boston Review

        Pub Date: February 11, 2020

        Is anger eternal? Righteous? Reflections on the causes and consequences of an phenomenon critical to our intimate and public lives.
        Spinal Catastrophism

        Spinal Catastrophism

        Spinal Catastrophism

        A Secret History

        by Thomas Moynihan

        Foreword by Iain Hamilton Grant

        ISBN: 9781913029562

        Publisher: Urbanomic

        Pub Date: December 3, 2019

        The historical continuity of spinal catastrophism, traced across multiform encounters between philosophy, psychology, biology, and geology.
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        Casino Real

        Edited by Robin Mackay

        ISBN: 9780956775023

        Publisher: Urbanomic

        Pub Date: October 23, 2018

        An assembly of perspectives on risk, contingency, and chance—at the gaming table, in the markets, and in life.
        The Agony of Eros

        The Agony of Eros

        The Agony of Eros

        by Byung-Chul Han

        Foreword by Alain Badiou

        Translated by Erik Butler

        ISBN: 9780262533379

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 7, 2017

        An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.
        The Question Concerning Technology in China

        The Question Concerning Technology in China

        The Question Concerning Technology in China

        An Essay in Cosmotechnics

        by Yuk Hui

        ISBN: 9780995455009

        Publisher: Urbanomic

        Pub Date: September 2, 2016

        A systematic historical survey of Chinese thought is followed by an investigation of the historical-metaphysical questions of modern technology, asking how Chinese thought might contribute to a renewed questioning of globalized technics.
        Without Criteria

        Without Criteria

        Without Criteria

        Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics

        by Steven Shaviro

        ISBN: 9780262517973

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 17, 2012

        A Deleuzian reading of Whitehead and a Whiteheadian reading of Deleuze open the possibility of a critical aesthetics of contemporary culture.
        Evil Media

        Evil Media

        Evil Media

        by Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey

        ISBN: 9780262017855

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 17, 2012

        A philosophical manual of media power for the network age.
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