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      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2025

        Love and revolution

        by Matt York

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        April 2026

        Zadie Smith

        New perspectives

        by Nurten Birlik, Noémi Albert

        Zadie Smith's fiction reimagines subjectivity, relationality, and the conditions of contemporary life. This book offers a timely reassessment of her work, addressing identity, urban experience, and the category of the human. Moving beyond postcolonial and multiculturalist readings, it brings psychoanalytic, historical, symptomatic, and cultural materialist perspectives to bear across her novels, stories, essays, and plays. The collection explores how Smith's characters, shaped by diverse backgrounds and settings, challenge fixed ideas of Britishness and personhood. It argues that her writing opens up a new ontological space-defined by fluid identities, shifting subjectivities, and evolving forms of relationality. By reconsidering both the human and the spatial in Smith's work, the book makes a valuable contribution to contemporary literary criticism and to current thinking on narrative, identity, and urban life.

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        The Arts
        July 2025

        An idea for a theatre ecology

        Methods, theories, histories and practices

        by Carl Lavery

        An Idea for a Theatre Ecology is the first book in the discipline of Theatre and Performance Studies to provide a rigorous and coherent theory of the ecology that is immanent to the theatrical medium. Over six clearly written chapters, the book provides a genealogy, outlines a method, provides a lexicon and demonstrates an alternative practice of ecoperformance analysis grounded in the figure of the archipelago. Focusing on Antonin Artaud's theatre of cruelty, the book argues that theatre has no need to provide ecological messages nor to transform itself into a platform for the narration of ecological stories. Instead, more is to be gained, environmentally and politically, by concentrating on the power of images, gestures and voices to create corporeal affects and sensations that implicate the spectators in a terrestrial event.

      • Trusted Partner
        April 2005

        Posthumanes Menschsein?

        Künstliche Intelligenz, Cyberspace, Roboter, Cyborgs und Designer-Menschen – Anthropologie des künstlichen Menschen im 21. Jahrhundert

        by Irrgang, Bernhard

      • Trusted Partner
        November 2010

        Nach der Natur

        Das Artensterben und die moderne Kultur

        by Ursula K. Heise

        Wir sehen uns heute mit einem Artenschwund konfrontiert, für dessen Ausmaß und Geschwindigkeit es in der Geschichte kaum Präzedenzfälle gibt. Nicht nur wissenschaftlich und politisch, sondern auch kulturell stellt diese Entwicklung eine Herausforderung dar. Ausgestorbene und aussterbende Arten werden in Kunst, Film und Literatur als Signale für eine Modernisierungskrise gedeutet, in der sich der Mensch letztlich als biologische Art neu zu denken sucht. Ursula Heise zeigt in ihrem Essay, wie aus der kreativen Umgestaltung alter Erzählmuster im Zeitalter der Globalisierung bei Wissenschaftlern, Künstlern, Schriftstellern und Regisseuren ein »posthumanes« Bild des Menschen als kosmopolitisches Tier entsteht.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2019

        Death machines

        by Elke Schwarz

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2023

        Critical theory and international relations

        by Stephen Hobden

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