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The Messthetics

Anthropocosmic Nest

Rachel Coventry,

Heidegger and Poetry in the Digital Age

In this original study, Rachel Coventry expands Heidegger's philosophy of art to include his ontological account of poetry and technology. Following Heidegger's definition of technology as preventing auth…

Edward Allen, Jason Miller, Patrick Rand

Architectural Detailing

The industry-standard guide to designing well-performing buildings Aesthetics are a vital part of good design. Great design emerges from a deep understanding of the functionality and constructability of d…

Rachel Jane Carroll

For Pleasure

"For Pleasure argues that aesthetic pleasure and formal experimentalism hold the twinned capacity to maintain a global racial order and also to undo it"--

Stefano Odorico

The Interactive Documentary Form

While the concept of the documentary film is well established, interactive documentary is a newly emerging form of non-linear, non-fiction narrative that animates viewers to control their own path through…

Phil Turner

A Psychology of User Experience

As mainstream psychology was never intended for the HCI practitioner, this second edition of A Psychology of User Experience takes the opportunity to create a new chapter specifically written for practiti…

Disinterested Pleasure and Beauty

The feeling of disinterested pleasure is at the core of Kant s theory of beauty. Moreover, it has been a highly influential cornerstone of philosophical discussions about beauty up until today. This volum…

Jonas Wolf

Re-Composing YouTube

YouTube features a wide array of multimodal musical figurations, including fan-made music videos, musical aestheticisations of pre-circulating content, and musical self-performances. Jonas Wolf explores o…

Omar Felipe Giraldo, Ingrid Fernanda Toro

Environmental Affectivity

Following Spinoza's lead and Latin American environmental thought, this book imagines an embodied environmental ethics based on the relations between sentient beings and sustained by affections, sensibili…

Melvin Chen

Philosophy and Art in Southeast Asia

Guiding you through the topics that shape aesthetics and the philosophy of art, this introduction explores the truth, meaning, taste, aesthetic merit and the role of perception. What each chapter offers …

Marta Fossati

The South African Short Story in English, 1920-2010

Marta Fossati traces the development of the South African short story in English from the late 1920s to the first decade of the twenty-first century, examining its narratological characteristics, its dial…

Geoffrey Maguire

Bodies of Water

Explores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.

Kathe Hicks Albrecht

The Machine Anxieties of Steampunk

What is steampunk and why are people across the globe eagerly embracing its neo-Victorian aesthetic? Old-fashioned eye goggles, lace corsets, leather vests, brass gears and gadgets, mechanical clocks, the…

Transnational German Film at the End of Neoliberalism

Posits a new, aesthetically and politically radical, transnational German cinema - "transnational" also in the sense of concerns with migration, the movement of capital across borders, and globalization.

John Plotz

Semi-Detached

"Semi-detachment--the state of simultaneous half-waking and half-dreaming--proves just the sort of big, loose idea that in the hands of a playful and curious reader like Plotz gives us fresh insight into …

Americana

The essay collection Americana poses the basic question of how American music can be described and analyzed as such, as American music. Situated at the intersection between musicology and American Studies…

Sally M Promey

Religion in Plain View

"Religion is ever-present in American public life. Displays of religion-such as bumper stickers or Jesus fish on cars, anti-abortion billboards with Bible verses, and the Star of David on Jewish deli sign…

Michael Sappol

Queer Anatomies

In centuries past, sexual body-parts and same-sex desire were un­men­­tionables de­barred from polite conver­sa­tion and printed discourse. Yet one scientific discipline-ana­to­my-had license to rep­re­se…

Teaching Artistic Strategies

Artistic strategies have a great transformative potential to improving research, teaching, and artistic expression. The contributors to this volume show how to unleash this potential by presenting a varie…