Noise - A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Theory
From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Thinking Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman, the co-author of the million-copy bestseller Nudge Cass Sunstein, and the eminent professor and writer on strategic thinking Olivier Sibony, a new book about how to make better decisions. We make thousands of decis ...Show more
Capital is Dead: Or is this something worse? by McKenzie Wark
$22.99 AUD
Category: Theory
It's not capitalism, it's not neoliberalism - what if it's something worse? In this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that information has empowered a new kind of ruling class. Through the ownership and control of information, this emergent class dominates not only labour but capital ...Show more
On Getting Off - Sex and Philosophy by Damon Young
$22.72 AUD
$24.99 (9% off)
Category: Theory
The curious reader's companion to sex. 'Wit, you know, is the unexpected copulation of ideas.' — Samuel Johnson Why is screwing so funny? How should we think about our most shocking fantasies? What is so captivating about nudity? Inspired by philosophy, literature, and private life, Damon Young explo ...Show more
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E Frankl
$19.99 AUD
Category: Theory
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and ...Show more
The System of Objects by Jean Baudrillard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Theory
The System of Objects is a tour de force a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day offering a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society.
The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White
$29.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Writer and the City
A flaneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles through city streets in search of adventure and fulfillment. Edmund White, who lived in Paris for sixteen years, wanders through the streets and avenues and along the quays, into parts of Paris virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many Paris ...Show more
Hatred Of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader by Edited by Chris Kraus, Sylvere Lotringer
$33.95 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Double Agents Series
Jean Baudrillard meets Cookie Mueller in this gathering of French theory and American fiction published in the Foreign Agents and Native Agents series over the last 15 years. Texts by Kathy Acker, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Shulamith Firestone, Eileen Myles, Tony Negri, Michelle Tea, Paul Viril ...Show more
On Perpetual Peace by Immanuel Kant; Brian Orend (Editor); Ian Johnston (Translator)
$23.99 AUD
Category: Theory
Kant's landmark essay "On Perpetual Peace" is as timely, relevant, and inspiring today as when it was first written over 200 years ago. In it we find a forward-looking vision of a world respectful of human rights, dominated by liberal democracies, and united in a cosmopolitan federation of diverse peopl ...Show more
Michel Foucault by Clare O'Farrell
$82.00 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Core Cultural Theorists Series
'Clare O'Farrell is to be congratulated on producing a truly magnificent book on the work of Michel Foucault. There are details, insights and observations that will engage the specialist and there is an extensive documentation of Foucault's output. If there is a more comprehensive book on Foucault's wor ...Show more
How to Be Content - An Ancient Poet's Guide for an Age of Excess by Stephen Harrison; Horace
$29.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
What the Roman poet Horace can teach us about how to live a life of contentment What are the secrets to a contented life? One of Rome's greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE) has been cherished by readers for more than two thousand years not only for his wit, style, and reflections ...Show more
Amor & Psyche by Erich Neumann; Ralph Manheim (Translator)
$51.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Works by Erich Neumann Ser.
The renowned tale of Amor and Psyche, from Apuleius's second-century Latin novel The Golden Ass, is one of the most charming fragments of classical literature. Neumann chose it as the exemplar of an unusual study of feminine psychology. Unfolding the spiritual and mythical background of the pagan narrat ...Show more
A Spinoza Reader - The Ethics and Other Works by Benedictus de Spinoza; Edwin M. Curley (Edited and Translated by)
$57.99 AUD
Category: Theory
This anthology of the work of Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677) presents the text of Spinoza's masterwork, the Ethics, in what is now the standard translation by Edwin Curley. Also included are selections from other works by Spinoza, chosen by Curley to make the Ethics easier to understand, and a substantia ...Show more