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In praise of copying
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ISBN: 9780674047839 0674047834 1845116151 0674058429 9781845116156 9781845116149 1845116143 9780674058422 0674262174 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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German critic Walter Benjamin wrote some immensely influential words on the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction. Luxury fashion houses would say something shorter and sharper and much more legally binding on the rip-off merchants who fake their products. Marcus Boon, a Canadian English professor with an accessible turn of phrase, takes us on an erudite voyage through the theme in a serious but engaging encounter with the ideas of thinkers as varied as Plato, Hegel, Orson Welles, Benjamin, Heidegger, Louis Vuitton, Takashi Murakami and many more, on topics as philosophically taxing and pop-culture-light as mimesis, Christianity, capitalism, authenticity, Uma Thurman's handbag and Disneyland.


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Van de wereld : filosofische reisimpressies van gebruiken, rituelen en sjamanisme
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ISBN: 9789044133790 Year: 2016 Publisher: Antwerpen Apeldoorn Garant

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Van de wereld. Filosofische reisimpressies van gebruiken, rituelen en sjamanisme in de wereld is een uitzonderlijk boek. Het is ingedeeld in vier grote delen, die overeenkomen met de continenten Afrika, Oceanië, Azië en Amerika. Zelden werden gebruiken, rituelen en sjamanisme uit zoveel verschillende landen in één boek verzameld. Dit filosofisch reisboek toont in woord en beeld hoe verschillende culturen hun gebruiken tot op vandaag nog steeds beleven. De vele foto's illustreren het boeiende leven van de volkeren die de auteurs hebben ontmoet. Els Heyvaert is beeldend kunstenares en illustrator. Christian Van Kerckhove is wetenschapper en filosoof met een bijzondere interesse voor de wijsgerige antropologie. Over hun wereldomzeiling met hun zeiljacht Agapetos schreven ze Het geluk leeft aan boord. Het ongeluk zeilt mee (2012). Zij zijn veelgevraagde sprekers en hebben een uitgebreide antropologische collectie. Een deel ervan wordt uitgebouwd tot een nog steeds rondreizende tentoonstelling over overgangsrituelen. Een ander deel groeide uit tot de tentoonstelling Stof tot nadenken. Identiteit verweven in textiel.


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De grenzeloze stad : filosoferen over mensen, stad en tijd
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ISBN: 9068681710 Year: 1997 Publisher: Bussum Uitgeverij Thoth

Sources of the self : the making of the modern identity
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ISBN: 0521383315 0521429498 0674824261 0674824253 9780521383318 9780674824263 9780674824256 Year: 1989 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press


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Textures of the anthropocene : grain, vapor, ray
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ISBN: 9780262527415 9783957632326 0262527413 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge MIT Press

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The Anthropocene hypothesis regards humanity as a geological force, its activities effectively altering the Earth system's metabolic structures: sediments, currents, and rays are redistributed towards unknown configurations. The publication Textures of the Anthropocene: grain vapor ray engages with earthly conditions and human imagination in a discursive, transhistorical experiment. Departing from a corpus of historical documents spanning several centuries, scholars, theorists, scientists, and artists have been asked to grapple with the constantly shifting qualities of the particular, fleeting, and energetic, presenting new positions on the textures and forms that knowledge takes on within the Anthropocene.


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De mens achterna.
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ISBN: 9061521114 9789061521112 Year: 1974 Volume: nr. 125 : 1974 ; 1 Publisher: Leuven Davidsfonds


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Passie en beschouwing : de christelijke invloed op het westerse mensbeeld.
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ISBN: 9068311417 Year: 1988 Publisher: Leuven Peeters


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The Posthuman.
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ISBN: 9780745641577 0745641571 074564158X 9780745641584 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge : Polity Press,

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The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally linked and technologically mediated societies. This has blurred the traditional distinction between the human and its others, exposing the non-naturalistic structure of the human. The Posthuman starts by exploring the extent to which a post-humanist move displaces the traditional humanistic unity of the subject. Rather than perceiving this situation as a loss of cognitive and moral self-mastery, Braidotti argues that the posthuman helps us make sense of our flexible and multiple identities. Braidotti then analyzes the escalating effects of post-anthropocentric thought, which encompass not only other species, but also the sustainability of our planet as a whole. Because contemporary market economies profit from the control and commodification of all that lives, they result in hybridization, erasing categorical distinctions between the human and other species, seeds, plants, animals and bacteria. These dislocations induced by globalized cultures and economies enable a critique of anthropocentrism, but how reliable are they as indicators of a sustainable future? The Posthuman concludes by considering the implications of these shifts for the institutional practice of the humanities. Braidotti outlines new forms of cosmopolitan neo-humanism that emerge from the spectrum of post-colonial and race studies, as well as gender analysis and environmentalism. The challenge of the posthuman condition consists in seizing the opportunities for new social bonding and community building, while pursuing sustainability and empowerment.


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After nature
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ISBN: 9780674368224 0674368223 9780674979864 0674915674 0674979869 9780674915671 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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"Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists have called this new planetary epoch the Anthropocene, the age of Humans. The geological strata we are now creating record industrial emissions, industrial-scale crop pollens, and the disappearance of species driven to extinction. Climate change is planetary engineering without design. These facts of the Anthropocene are scientific, but its shape and meaning are question for politics--a politics that does not yet exist. 'After Nature' develops a politics for the post-natural world. Jedediah Purdy begins with a history of how Americans have shaped their landscapes. He explores the competing traditions that still infuse environmental law and culture--a frontier vision of settlement and development, a wilderness-seeking Romanticism, a utilitarian attitude that tries to manage nature for human benefit, and a twentieth-century ecological view. These traditions are ways of seeing the world and humans' place in it. They are also modes of lawmaking that inscribe ideal visions on the earth itself. Each has shaped landscapes that make its vision of nature real, from wilderness to farmland to suburbs--opening some new ways of living on the earth while foreclosing others. The Anthropocene demands that we draw on all these legacies and go beyond them. With human and environmental fates now inseparable, environmental politics will become either more deeply democratic or more unequal and inhumane. Where nothing is pure, we must create ways to rally devotion to a damaged and ever-changing world."--Publisher's description.

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