Cary Wolfe: Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory (2003)
Filed under book | Tags: · animal, colonialism, philosophy, posthumanism, race, sexuality
In Animal Rites, Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism and ethics by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal from Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Lyotard to Lévinas, Derrida, Žižek, Maturana, and Varela. Through detailed readings of how discourses of race, sexuality, colonialism, and animality interact in twentieth-century American culture, Wolfe explores what it means, in theory and critical practice, to take seriously “the question of the animal.”
With a Foreword by W.J.T. Mitchell
Publisher University of Chicago Press, 2003
ISBN 0226905144, 9780226905143
237 pages
The Red Specter. Journal of Agitation and Enlightenment 1 (2010) [English/Spanish]
Filed under journal | Tags: · activism, art, art criticism, colonialism, commodity fetishism, communism, economy, left, market economy, money, politics
Published on the occassion of exhibition Critical Fetishes. Residues of General Economy at CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Madrid, May – August 2010, curated by The Red Specter (Through its Commissariat of Public Enlightenment: Mariana Botey, Helena Chávez Mac Gregor and Cuauhtémoc Medina).
Editors of issue 1: Ekaterina Álvarez Romero and Cuauhtémoc Medina
English translations: Christopher Fraga, Lorna Scott Fox
Spanish translations: Manuel Hernández, Jaime Soler Frost
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Michael Adas: Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance (1990)
Filed under book | Tags: · colonialism, critique of technology, history, history of technology, ideology, industrial revolution, machine, philosophy of technology, technology
Thorough and systematic study of the role of ideas of technological and scientific superiority in the European outlook on non-European peoples. Covering the historical gamut from the time of Columbus to post-WWII developments and including a stunning array of sources, studies and quotations to buttress its thesis, it is bound to impress even specialists in the field, let alone general readers.
Adas shows us a look at the industrialization of Europe and the colonization of the non-Western world in a viewpoint that is supported and hard to dispute, even if it does not sit easily with the pride associated with being a “Westerner,” as are the majority of his readers. Adas has no problem with this, however, and dives in wholeheartedly. It is hard to dispute him on anything, since he supports all sides and arguments with equal voices in quantity as well as in quality.
The book won the 1991 prize of the Society for the History of Technology.
Publisher Cornell University Press, 1990
Cornell studies in comparative history
ISBN 0801497604, 9780801497605
430 pages
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