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Pessoa, The Metaphysical Courier
2011Paperback, 292 pagesISBN 0983173478Fernando Pessoa's artistic birth develops over two periods. The first moment: March 1914, the apparition, as decisive as opaque, of the four heteronymous poets, Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos, and Fernando Pessoa himself. The second moment: the dramatic intellectual crisis of 1915-1916, during which the idea of the avant-garde a...Publication Program: InterventionsVampyroteuthis infernalis
2011Paperback, 160 pagesISBN 0983173419"Science is interesting precisely because it relates to me. It is a human function just as much as breathing is: it is an existential interest. And an entirely objective science would be uninteresting, inhuman. The search for scientific objectivity is revealing itself in its continual advancement not as a search for "purity", but as pernicious m...Publication Program: InterventionsPhilosophical Essays: from ancient creed to technological man
2010Paperback, 384 pagesISBN 0982706790Philosophical Essays is a pivotal volume in the collected works of Hans Jonas (1903-1993), one of most important German-American philosophers of the last half of the 20th century. Of the four books published in English during his lifetime, it is the only one to include contributions from his three primary areas of achievement: philosophical ref...Publication Program: InterventionsLetters to a Young Therapist: Relational Practices for the Coming Community
2011Paperback, 234 pagesISBN 0983173451Book description:
In these seven letters, practising psychiatrist Vincenzo Di Nicola offers wisdom to a young therapist from 25 years of experience conducting relational therapy. Ranging from what to read and how to begin therapy, the letters cover therapeutic temperaments and technique, how to create a relational dialogue, the my...Publication Program: InterventionsTheodore
2010Paperback, 272 pagesISBN 0983173400Theodore is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Theodore was withdrawn, obscure and maladjusted- an enigma to his parents and community. Translating in five tongues is a type of refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and slowly he comes closer to defining himself- but at a cost: in his mothe...Publication Program: InterventionsScratch & Sniff
2010Paperback, 166 pagesISBN 0982706758There is a fair bit of scratching and sniffing in this book-from an old dog in the opening poem to a fat, bald drunken satyr in the closing one. That dog is Mickey, van de Kamp's gorgeous bearded collie, whom the poet leftbehind, with his darling wife, when he took up a visiting professor...Publication Program: InterventionsLaughter
2010Paperback, 132 pagesISBN 0982530935----Henri Bergson is the author of numerous works including Matter and Memory, Creative Evolution and Time and Free Will. His work has been influential for many thinkers such as Walter Benjamin, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gilles Deleuze. ----Drew Burk is a graduate and technical director at the European Graduate School. He is the translator of su...Publication Program: InterventionsPhilosophy of Media Sounds
2009Paperback, 154 pagesISBN 0981997260Media opened music to sound, and made it universally available material for multiple collages. At the same time media puts music in the state of a constant murmuring drone, an incessant flowing. Music in the age of technical media continues to move between these two polarities. The outcome depends upon our creativity, and our competence, in both...Publication Program: InterventionsChe Guevara and the Economic Debate in Cuba
2009Hardcover, 314 pagesISBN 0981946283Clear, well documented, engagingly written and consistently arranged according to topic, this book has an added merit of no little value when compared to most literature on economical subjects: thanks to its conceptual clarity and the precise information that is transmitted to the reader, it can be read and understood with ease. A book defi ning...Publication Program: InterventionsFollow Us or Die
2009Paperback, 196 pagesISBN 0981946259Follow Us or Die deals with the heritage of the so-called high school shooters within the context of the film pamphlet Follow Us or Die by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei and Jonas Staal. The material selected, quoted and presented in this publication encompasses literary work such as short stories, poetry and theater pieces as well as a repr...Publication Program: InterventionsTalking Cheddo
2009Paperback, 346 pagesISBN 0981946232“What a rewarding read! This unique blending of philosophy, poetry and personal experience, combined with an impressive scholarship, has enlightened me beyond my expectations. I especially liked the constructive attitude which turns the ugly past into something which contains future – a dialectics of hope. Like many educated people I had a...Publication Program: InterventionsKeywords: dialecticTeletheory
2004Paperback, 328 pagesISBN 0974853402The second and revised edition of a groundbreaking philosophical treatise from a leading authority on the theory and practice of electronic culture in the media age. Continuing the work of post(e)-pedagogy of Applied Grammatology, Ulmer's Teletheory is the second book of his trilogy on the modes of inquiry which concludes with Heuretics. Telethe...Publication Program: Interventionsheart, speech, this
2009Paperback, 152 pagesISBN 0982530943There are stories within stories in this book, myths and memories and might-have-beens. Love stories, ruptures, alienations. Here is what the book came to be: seven series of poems exploring women of Greek myth, each series with its own poetic form and voice, interrupted and conversing with poems more contemporary, less narrative, in both tradit...Publication Program: InterventionsThe Tupperware Blitzkrieg
2009Paperback, 196 pagesISBN 0981946240Simultaneously his most accessible and his most extreme book, Anthony Metivier's The Tupperware Blitzkrieg is a powerful concoction of sexual excess, self-deification and terminal violence. In this hallucinatory novel, plastic surgery, psychoanalysis and the pornography of American politics provide the hellish tableau in which Doctor Umbili...Publication Program: InterventionsPhilosophy of Culture, Schopenhauer and Tradition (Schopenhauer Studies - Schopenhauer - Studien 6)
2008Paperback, 412 pagesISBN 0974853410Schopenhauer's grim philosophy of culture with its honest insight into the human condition is unprecedented. But the influence of other philosophers, from Plato to Kant, as well of Eastern Thought needs to be explored: Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, The Frankfurt School as well as Samuel Beckett fell under his spell. The editor Wolfgang Schirmacher...Publication Program: Interventions
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