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Rhythmanalysis displays all the characteristics which made Lefebvre one of the most important Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century. In the analysis of rhythms -- both biological and social -- Lefebvre shows the interrelation of space and time in the understanding of everyday life.With dazzling skills, Lefebvre moves between discussions of music, the commodity,(...)
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Rhythmanalysis displays all the characteristics which made Lefebvre one of the most important Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century. In the analysis of rhythms -- both biological and social -- Lefebvre shows the interrelation of space and time in the understanding of everyday life.With dazzling skills, Lefebvre moves between discussions of music, the commodity,(...)
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Rhythmanalysis: space, time and everyday life
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Rhythmanalysis displays all the characteristics which made Lefebvre one of the most important Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century. In the analysis of rhythms -- both biological and social -- Lefebvre shows the interrelation of space and time in the understanding of everyday life.With dazzling skills, Lefebvre moves between discussions of music, the commodity, measurement, the media and the city. In doing so he shows how a non-linear conception of time and history balanced his famous rethinking of the question of space. This volume also includes his earlier essays on "The Rhythmanalysis Project" and "Attempt at the Rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean Towns."
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Rhythmanalysis displays all the characteristics which made Lefebvre one of the most important Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century. In the analysis of rhythms -- both biological and social -- Lefebvre shows the interrelation of space and time in the understanding of everyday life.With dazzling skills, Lefebvre moves between discussions of music, the commodity, measurement, the media and the city. In doing so he shows how a non-linear conception of time and history balanced his famous rethinking of the question of space. This volume also includes his earlier essays on "The Rhythmanalysis Project" and "Attempt at the Rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean Towns."
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The adventure
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An ancient legend identifies Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity as the four gods who preside over the birth of every human being. We must all pay tribute to these deities and should not try to elude or dupe them. To accept them, Giorgio Agamben suggests, is to live one’s life as an adventure—not in the trivial sense of the term, with lightness and disenchantment, but with(...)
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An ancient legend identifies Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity as the four gods who preside over the birth of every human being. We must all pay tribute to these deities and should not try to elude or dupe them. To accept them, Giorgio Agamben suggests, is to live one’s life as an adventure—not in the trivial sense of the term, with lightness and disenchantment, but with(...)
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An ancient legend identifies Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity as the four gods who preside over the birth of every human being. We must all pay tribute to these deities and should not try to elude or dupe them. To accept them, Giorgio Agamben suggests, is to live one’s life as an adventure—not in the trivial sense of the term, with lightness and disenchantment, but with the understanding that adventure, as a specific way of being, is the most profound experience in our human existence. In this pithy, poetic, and compelling book, Agamben maps a journey from poems of chivalry to philosophy, from Yvain to Hegel, from Beatrice to Heidegger. The four gods of legend are joined at the end by a goddess, the most elusive and mysterious of all: Elpis, Hope. In Greek mythology, Hope remains in Pandora's box, not because it postpones its fulfillment to an invisible beyond but because somehow it has always been already satisfied. Here, Agamben presents Hope as the ultimate gift of the human adventure on Earth.
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An ancient legend identifies Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity as the four gods who preside over the birth of every human being. We must all pay tribute to these deities and should not try to elude or dupe them. To accept them, Giorgio Agamben suggests, is to live one’s life as an adventure—not in the trivial sense of the term, with lightness and disenchantment, but with the understanding that adventure, as a specific way of being, is the most profound experience in our human existence. In this pithy, poetic, and compelling book, Agamben maps a journey from poems of chivalry to philosophy, from Yvain to Hegel, from Beatrice to Heidegger. The four gods of legend are joined at the end by a goddess, the most elusive and mysterious of all: Elpis, Hope. In Greek mythology, Hope remains in Pandora's box, not because it postpones its fulfillment to an invisible beyond but because somehow it has always been already satisfied. Here, Agamben presents Hope as the ultimate gift of the human adventure on Earth.
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Topology of violence
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One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity. Some things never disappear—violence, for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean, varying its outward form according to the social constellation at hand. In Topology of Violence, the philosopher Byung-Chul(...)
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One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity. Some things never disappear—violence, for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean, varying its outward form according to the social constellation at hand. In Topology of Violence, the philosopher Byung-Chul(...)
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One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity. Some things never disappear—violence, for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean, varying its outward form according to the social constellation at hand. In Topology of Violence, the philosopher Byung-Chul Han considers the shift in violence from the visible to the invisible, from the frontal to the viral to the self-inflicted, from brute force to mediated force, from the real to the virtual. Violence, Han tells us, has gone from the negative—explosive, massive, and martial—to the positive, wielded without enmity or domination. This, he says, creates the false impression that violence has disappeared. Anonymized, desubjectified, systemic, violence conceals itself because it has become one with society.
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One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity. Some things never disappear—violence, for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean, varying its outward form according to the social constellation at hand. In Topology of Violence, the philosopher Byung-Chul Han considers the shift in violence from the visible to the invisible, from the frontal to the viral to the self-inflicted, from brute force to mediated force, from the real to the virtual. Violence, Han tells us, has gone from the negative—explosive, massive, and martial—to the positive, wielded without enmity or domination. This, he says, creates the false impression that violence has disappeared. Anonymized, desubjectified, systemic, violence conceals itself because it has become one with society.
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Pierre Montebello met en lumière les positions esthétiques de Gilles Deleuze et les rapports entre philosophie, arts visuels, musique, cinéma et littérature dans la pensée deleuzienne. Professeur de philosophie moderne et contemporaine à l'Université de Toulouse le Mirail, Pierre Montebello a publié de nombreux ouvrages sur Maine de Biran, Friedrich Nietzsche, Félix(...)
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Pierre Montebello met en lumière les positions esthétiques de Gilles Deleuze et les rapports entre philosophie, arts visuels, musique, cinéma et littérature dans la pensée deleuzienne. Professeur de philosophie moderne et contemporaine à l'Université de Toulouse le Mirail, Pierre Montebello a publié de nombreux ouvrages sur Maine de Biran, Friedrich Nietzsche, Félix(...)
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Deleuze, esthétiques : la honte d’être un homme
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Pierre Montebello met en lumière les positions esthétiques de Gilles Deleuze et les rapports entre philosophie, arts visuels, musique, cinéma et littérature dans la pensée deleuzienne. Professeur de philosophie moderne et contemporaine à l'Université de Toulouse le Mirail, Pierre Montebello a publié de nombreux ouvrages sur Maine de Biran, Friedrich Nietzsche, Félix Ravaisson, Gabriel Tarde, Henri Bergson et Gilles Deleuze.
Deleuze, esthétiques : la honte d’être un homme
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Pierre Montebello met en lumière les positions esthétiques de Gilles Deleuze et les rapports entre philosophie, arts visuels, musique, cinéma et littérature dans la pensée deleuzienne. Professeur de philosophie moderne et contemporaine à l'Université de Toulouse le Mirail, Pierre Montebello a publié de nombreux ouvrages sur Maine de Biran, Friedrich Nietzsche, Félix Ravaisson, Gabriel Tarde, Henri Bergson et Gilles Deleuze.
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Dans Le Pouvoir des mots, Judith Butler analyse les récents débats, souvent passionnés, sur la violence verbale dirigée contre les minorités, sur la pornographie et sur l’interdiction faite aux homosexuels membres de l’armée américaine de se déclarer tels. Il s’agit pour elle de montrer le danger qu’il y a à confier à l’État le soin de définir le champ du dicible et de(...)
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Dans Le Pouvoir des mots, Judith Butler analyse les récents débats, souvent passionnés, sur la violence verbale dirigée contre les minorités, sur la pornographie et sur l’interdiction faite aux homosexuels membres de l’armée américaine de se déclarer tels. Il s’agit pour elle de montrer le danger qu’il y a à confier à l’État le soin de définir le champ du dicible et de(...)
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Le pouvoir des mots : discours de haine et politique du performatif
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Dans Le Pouvoir des mots, Judith Butler analyse les récents débats, souvent passionnés, sur la violence verbale dirigée contre les minorités, sur la pornographie et sur l’interdiction faite aux homosexuels membres de l’armée américaine de se déclarer tels. Il s’agit pour elle de montrer le danger qu’il y a à confier à l’État le soin de définir le champ du dicible et de l’indicible. Dans un dialogue critique avec J. L. Austin, le fondateur de la théorie du discours performatif, mais aussi avec Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Jacques Derrida et Catharine MacKinnon, elle s’efforce d’établir l’ambivalence de la violence verbale (du hate speech) et des discours homophobes, sexistes ou racistes : s’ils peuvent briser les personnes auxquelles ils sont adressés, ils peuvent aussi être retournés et ouvrir l’espace d’une lutte politique et d’une subversion des identités.
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Dans Le Pouvoir des mots, Judith Butler analyse les récents débats, souvent passionnés, sur la violence verbale dirigée contre les minorités, sur la pornographie et sur l’interdiction faite aux homosexuels membres de l’armée américaine de se déclarer tels. Il s’agit pour elle de montrer le danger qu’il y a à confier à l’État le soin de définir le champ du dicible et de l’indicible. Dans un dialogue critique avec J. L. Austin, le fondateur de la théorie du discours performatif, mais aussi avec Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Jacques Derrida et Catharine MacKinnon, elle s’efforce d’établir l’ambivalence de la violence verbale (du hate speech) et des discours homophobes, sexistes ou racistes : s’ils peuvent briser les personnes auxquelles ils sont adressés, ils peuvent aussi être retournés et ouvrir l’espace d’une lutte politique et d’une subversion des identités.
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One hundred years ago, French troops fired tear gas grenades into German trenches. Designed to force people out from behind barricades and trenches, tear gas causes burning of the eyes and skin, tearing, and gagging. Chemical weapons are now banned from war zones. But today, tear gas has become the most commonly used form of “less-lethal” police force. In 2011, the year(...)
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One hundred years ago, French troops fired tear gas grenades into German trenches. Designed to force people out from behind barricades and trenches, tear gas causes burning of the eyes and skin, tearing, and gagging. Chemical weapons are now banned from war zones. But today, tear gas has become the most commonly used form of “less-lethal” police force. In 2011, the year(...)
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Tear gas: from the battlefields of WWI to the streets of today
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One hundred years ago, French troops fired tear gas grenades into German trenches. Designed to force people out from behind barricades and trenches, tear gas causes burning of the eyes and skin, tearing, and gagging. Chemical weapons are now banned from war zones. But today, tear gas has become the most commonly used form of “less-lethal” police force. In 2011, the year that protests exploded from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street, tear gas sales tripled. Most tear gas is produced in the United States, and many images of protestors in Tahrir Square showed tear gas canisters with “Made in USA” printed on them, while Britain continues to sell tear gas to countries on its own human rights blacklist.
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One hundred years ago, French troops fired tear gas grenades into German trenches. Designed to force people out from behind barricades and trenches, tear gas causes burning of the eyes and skin, tearing, and gagging. Chemical weapons are now banned from war zones. But today, tear gas has become the most commonly used form of “less-lethal” police force. In 2011, the year that protests exploded from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street, tear gas sales tripled. Most tear gas is produced in the United States, and many images of protestors in Tahrir Square showed tear gas canisters with “Made in USA” printed on them, while Britain continues to sell tear gas to countries on its own human rights blacklist.
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Walter Benjamin : avertissement d'incendie, une lecture des thèses « Sur le concept d'histoire »
Walter Benjamin : avertissement d'incendie, une lecture des thèses « Sur le concept d'histoire »
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Les Thèses « Sur le concept d'histoire » de 1940 sont le dernier écrit de Walter Benjamin et constituent peut-être le document le plus significatif dans la pensée critique du XXe siècle. Texte allusif, sybillin, dont l'hermétisme est constellé d'images et d'allégories, semé de paradoxes, traversé d'intuitions. Ce livre en propose une étude au mot à mot. Là où d'autres ne(...)
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Les Thèses « Sur le concept d'histoire » de 1940 sont le dernier écrit de Walter Benjamin et constituent peut-être le document le plus significatif dans la pensée critique du XXe siècle. Texte allusif, sybillin, dont l'hermétisme est constellé d'images et d'allégories, semé de paradoxes, traversé d'intuitions. Ce livre en propose une étude au mot à mot. Là où d'autres ne(...)
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Walter Benjamin : avertissement d'incendie, une lecture des thèses « Sur le concept d'histoire »
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Les Thèses « Sur le concept d'histoire » de 1940 sont le dernier écrit de Walter Benjamin et constituent peut-être le document le plus significatif dans la pensée critique du XXe siècle. Texte allusif, sybillin, dont l'hermétisme est constellé d'images et d'allégories, semé de paradoxes, traversé d'intuitions. Ce livre en propose une étude au mot à mot. Là où d'autres ne voient que contradiction ou ambiguïté, il met en évidence une cohérence fondamentale, dont la clé est constituée par la fusion de trois discours hétérogènes: le romantisme allemand, le messianisme juif, le marxisme révolutionnaire.
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Les Thèses « Sur le concept d'histoire » de 1940 sont le dernier écrit de Walter Benjamin et constituent peut-être le document le plus significatif dans la pensée critique du XXe siècle. Texte allusif, sybillin, dont l'hermétisme est constellé d'images et d'allégories, semé de paradoxes, traversé d'intuitions. Ce livre en propose une étude au mot à mot. Là où d'autres ne voient que contradiction ou ambiguïté, il met en évidence une cohérence fondamentale, dont la clé est constituée par la fusion de trois discours hétérogènes: le romantisme allemand, le messianisme juif, le marxisme révolutionnaire.
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The German issue
The German issue
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Like a time capsule, The German Issue brings together all the major "issues" that were being debated on both sides of the Atlantic—which eventually found their abrupt resolution in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. It involved the most important voices of the period—from writers and filmmakers to anthropologists, activists and poets, terrorists and philosophers:(...)
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Like a time capsule, The German Issue brings together all the major "issues" that were being debated on both sides of the Atlantic—which eventually found their abrupt resolution in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. It involved the most important voices of the period—from writers and filmmakers to anthropologists, activists and poets, terrorists and philosophers: Joseph Beuys, Michel Foucault, Christo, Christa Wolf, Walter Abish, Alexander Kluge, Paul Virilio, Ulrilke Meinhof, William Burroughs, Jean Baudrillard, Hans Magnus Enzenberger, Maurice Blanchot, Hans Jürgen Syberberg, Heidegger, André Gorz, Helke Sander. Opening with Christo's "Wrapping Up of Germany" and the celebrated dialogue between East German dramaturge Heiner Müller and Sylvère Lotringer on the Wall ("Mauer"), since published in many languages, The German Issue offers a first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation. It also embodies at its best Semiotext(e)'s tenacious effort to establish a creative bridge between art and intellect, culture and politics, Europe and America.
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Like a time capsule, The German Issue brings together all the major "issues" that were being debated on both sides of the Atlantic—which eventually found their abrupt resolution in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. It involved the most important voices of the period—from writers and filmmakers to anthropologists, activists and poets, terrorists and philosophers: Joseph Beuys, Michel Foucault, Christo, Christa Wolf, Walter Abish, Alexander Kluge, Paul Virilio, Ulrilke Meinhof, William Burroughs, Jean Baudrillard, Hans Magnus Enzenberger, Maurice Blanchot, Hans Jürgen Syberberg, Heidegger, André Gorz, Helke Sander. Opening with Christo's "Wrapping Up of Germany" and the celebrated dialogue between East German dramaturge Heiner Müller and Sylvère Lotringer on the Wall ("Mauer"), since published in many languages, The German Issue offers a first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation. It also embodies at its best Semiotext(e)'s tenacious effort to establish a creative bridge between art and intellect, culture and politics, Europe and America.
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Remi Hess rencontre Henri Lefebvre en 1967 à Nanterre. Depuis, il n'a cessé de lire, de commenter et de prolonger l'oeuvre de ce philosophe, sociologue, historien que fut Henri Lefebvre. Ici, R. Hess propose avec H. Lefebvre de construire une pensée du possible. Que peut-on percevoir comme possible ? L'impossible aujourd'hui ne sera-t-il pas le possible de demain ? R.(...)
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Remi Hess rencontre Henri Lefebvre en 1967 à Nanterre. Depuis, il n'a cessé de lire, de commenter et de prolonger l'oeuvre de ce philosophe, sociologue, historien que fut Henri Lefebvre. Ici, R. Hess propose avec H. Lefebvre de construire une pensée du possible. Que peut-on percevoir comme possible ? L'impossible aujourd'hui ne sera-t-il pas le possible de demain ? R.(...)
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Henri Lefebvre et la pensée du possible : Théorie des moments et construction de la personne
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Remi Hess rencontre Henri Lefebvre en 1967 à Nanterre. Depuis, il n'a cessé de lire, de commenter et de prolonger l'oeuvre de ce philosophe, sociologue, historien que fut Henri Lefebvre. Ici, R. Hess propose avec H. Lefebvre de construire une pensée du possible. Que peut-on percevoir comme possible ? L'impossible aujourd'hui ne sera-t-il pas le possible de demain ? R. Hess reprend la théorie des moments, proposée par Lefebvre, en y voyant un outil de construction de la personne. L'originalité de Henri Lefebvre et la pensée du possible est de proposer une méthode pour expliciter ses moments : l'écriture de journaux. Le journal des moments apparaît ainsi comme une technique de construction de la personne. Cet ouvrage, qui peut apparaître volumineux, est en fait un recueil de petits ouvrages à lire au bon moment. Certains sont théoriques, d'autres sont biographiques. Ce livre, de facture lefebvrienne, est le produit d'une dialectique entre le perçu, le vécu et le conçu.
Henri Lefebvre et la pensée du possible : Théorie des moments et construction de la personne
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Remi Hess rencontre Henri Lefebvre en 1967 à Nanterre. Depuis, il n'a cessé de lire, de commenter et de prolonger l'oeuvre de ce philosophe, sociologue, historien que fut Henri Lefebvre. Ici, R. Hess propose avec H. Lefebvre de construire une pensée du possible. Que peut-on percevoir comme possible ? L'impossible aujourd'hui ne sera-t-il pas le possible de demain ? R. Hess reprend la théorie des moments, proposée par Lefebvre, en y voyant un outil de construction de la personne. L'originalité de Henri Lefebvre et la pensée du possible est de proposer une méthode pour expliciter ses moments : l'écriture de journaux. Le journal des moments apparaît ainsi comme une technique de construction de la personne. Cet ouvrage, qui peut apparaître volumineux, est en fait un recueil de petits ouvrages à lire au bon moment. Certains sont théoriques, d'autres sont biographiques. Ce livre, de facture lefebvrienne, est le produit d'une dialectique entre le perçu, le vécu et le conçu.
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In praise of copying
In praise of copying
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This book is devoted to a deceptively simple but original argument: that copying is an essential part of being human, that the ability to copy is worthy of celebration, and that, without recognizing how integral copying is to being human, we cannot understand ourselves or the world we live in. In spite of the laws, stigmas, and anxieties attached to it, the word(...)
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This book is devoted to a deceptively simple but original argument: that copying is an essential part of being human, that the ability to copy is worthy of celebration, and that, without recognizing how integral copying is to being human, we cannot understand ourselves or the world we live in. In spite of the laws, stigmas, and anxieties attached to it, the word(...)
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This book is devoted to a deceptively simple but original argument: that copying is an essential part of being human, that the ability to copy is worthy of celebration, and that, without recognizing how integral copying is to being human, we cannot understand ourselves or the world we live in. In spite of the laws, stigmas, and anxieties attached to it, the word “copying” permeates contemporary culture, shaping discourse on issues from hip hop to digitization to gender reassignment, and is particularly crucial in legal debates concerning intellectual property and copyright. Yet as a philosophical concept, copying remains poorly understood. Working comparatively across cultures and times, Marcus Boon undertakes an examination of what this word means—historically, culturally, philosophically—and why it fills us with fear and fascination. He argues that the dominant legal-political structures that define copying today obscure much broader processes of imitation that have constituted human communities for ages and continue to shape various subcultures today. Drawing on contemporary art, music and film, the history of aesthetics, critical theory, and Buddhist philosophy and practice, In Praise of Copying seeks to show how and why copying works, what the sources of its power are, and the political stakes of renegotiating the way we value copying in the age of globalization.
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This book is devoted to a deceptively simple but original argument: that copying is an essential part of being human, that the ability to copy is worthy of celebration, and that, without recognizing how integral copying is to being human, we cannot understand ourselves or the world we live in. In spite of the laws, stigmas, and anxieties attached to it, the word “copying” permeates contemporary culture, shaping discourse on issues from hip hop to digitization to gender reassignment, and is particularly crucial in legal debates concerning intellectual property and copyright. Yet as a philosophical concept, copying remains poorly understood. Working comparatively across cultures and times, Marcus Boon undertakes an examination of what this word means—historically, culturally, philosophically—and why it fills us with fear and fascination. He argues that the dominant legal-political structures that define copying today obscure much broader processes of imitation that have constituted human communities for ages and continue to shape various subcultures today. Drawing on contemporary art, music and film, the history of aesthetics, critical theory, and Buddhist philosophy and practice, In Praise of Copying seeks to show how and why copying works, what the sources of its power are, and the political stakes of renegotiating the way we value copying in the age of globalization.
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