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The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Tsing traces the rhythms of disturbance-based ecologies through the biological and economic lives of matsutake mushrooms. Attending to the fortuitous multispecies assemblages of lifeforms and lifeways that arise within the ruins of capitalist…
Tags: capitalism, climate, ecocritique, ecology, environment, In-between
Nature's Queer Performativity
Through a range of vivid examples drawn from scientific research (from social amoebas to lightening), Barad lays out how nature itself is queer, how it models queer communication through a performative rather than represnetative mode. Barad expands…
Cinema and Experience: Kracauer, Benjamin, Adorno
Hansen explores the promise of cinema as it defined and changed the notion of experience in modernity and modernist thinkers. Here Hansen proposes a materialst theory of the cinema to help work understand the radical potential that the cinema and…
Tags: critical theory, experience, film, In-between, materialism, media history
Critical Theory: Essays
Collection of Horkhiemer's early essays that define the program of critical theory. Includes seminal essays such as "Traditional and Critical Theory" and "The Latests Attacks on Metaphysics," providing background and context for many of the wartime…
Critique of Instrumental Reason
A series critical essays that connect the rise of Enlightenment thinking with the emergence of state bureaucratic apparatuses that oppress human societies through a distinctive form of ‘instrumental rationality’.
Tags: critical theory, history, In-between, modernity
The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization
Written over the scope of 20 years of research, Mignolo argues that European colonizers used writing technologies (like the alphabet) as a weapon of war in Mesoamerica, with subsequent political and cultural projects in the Enlightenment serving to…
Tags: colonialism, In-between, Latin America, literacy, modernity
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Botany: The Salutary Science
Cook's magisterial study explores Jean-Jacques Rousseau's abiding interest in botany and botanical science and the significance of his botanical writings in the context of the history of plant science. She gives a wide-ranging yet exquisitely nuanced…
Tags: botany, ecology, ethics, In-between, philosophy of nature, Rousseau, science
Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics
A by-now classic and deeply influential critique of the foundational assumptions of ecocriticism (and strands of Romantic literature), Morton’s book issues a challenge to the idea of Nature as a transcendental term—and to the fantasy of a…
Tags: aesthetic, ecocritique, ecology, environment, ethics, In-between, Romanticism
Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life
Nealon explores the (liminal yet significant) role played by concepts of vegetable life within biopolitical discussions of life in the humanities today. Where Nealon, following Foucault, suggests that modernity has been primarily invested in an…
Tags: agency, climate, climate change, In-between, philosophy, plants, subjectivity, world
Enlightenment and Pathology: Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-Century France
Vila's study is now a classic, not only for its revealing interdisciplinary treatment of sensibility but also for its precise methodology and the clarity of its prose.
Tags: 18th century, biology, disciplines, France, In-between, materialism, medecine, philosophy, physiology, science, sexuality
The Republic of Letters
A ground-breaking consideration of the social history of gender in the Enlightenment. As well as an invaluable source on the social history of the Enlightenment overll, this study gave rise to a meaningful and revaling debate about the lack of…
Mapping the Republic of Letters
This website provides interactive, visual tools that depict the vast networks of people and information during the Enlightenment. Using archived letters, travel logs, and other resources, it depicts visually the routes traveled by letters, people,…
“Liberté, Égalité, Sororité: The Regime of the Sister in Graffigny's Lettres
d'une Péruvienne.”
Discusses 18th-century author Françoise de Graffigny's important novel (Lettres d'une Péruvienne), focusing on the form of the letters in the novel, which are constructed first in quipos (a peruvian form of communication involving knotted cords), and…
Special Section: Interdisciplinary Integration: The real Grand Challenge for the life sciences?
This set of articles considers how integration manifests in interdisciplinary contexts. Integration as a topic of philosophical investigation extends beyond socio-political philosophy and into philosophy of science and interdisciplinary theory. These…
Tags: In-between, integration, interdisciplinarity
Special Section: Integration in Biology: Philosophical Perspectives on the Dynamics of Interdisciplinarity
This set of articles considers how integration manifests in various biological specialities as well as in the history of biology. Integration as a topic of philosophical investigation extends beyond socio-political philosophy and into philosophy of…
Tags: biology, In-between, integration
The Imperative of Integration
This book examines racial segregation and integration from the perspectives of political philosophy and social science. The author argues for the democratic advantages of integration as a social practice.
Tags: In-between, integration, race
The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Laws
Jenny Martinez argues that the foundation of the movement that we know today as human rights was a product of one of the nineteenth century's central moral causes: the movement to ban the international slave trade.
Tags: abolitionism, human rights, In-between, modernity, Slave trade
Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies (ESSSS)
The ESSSS project, directed by Jane Landers and administered at Vanderbilt University, digitally preserves endangered ecclesiastical and secular documents related to Africans and African-descended peoples in slave societies. The ESSSS Digital Archive…
Tags: In-between, Latin America, modernity, religion, slavery
Slave Biographies, Atlantic Database Network
Slave Biographies: The Atlantic Database Network is an open access data repository of information on the identities of enslaved people in the Atlantic World. It includes the names, ethnicities, skills, occupations, and illnesses of individual slaves.…
Tags: identity, In-between, modernity, Slave trade, slavery
Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 36,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The actual number is estimated to…
Tags: Africa, In-between, modernity, Slave trade, slavery
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