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Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,520 ratings — published 2010
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 7,130 ratings — published 1980
Dark Deleuze (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.29 — 361 ratings — published 2016
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 8,882 ratings — published 1972
Onto-Cartography: An Ontology of Machines and Media (ebook)
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avg rating 4.04 — 53 ratings — published 2013
Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 72 ratings — published 2011
Creative Evolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,498 ratings — published 1907
Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 1,122 ratings — published 1994
Civilized Life in the Universe: Scientists on Intelligent Extraterrestrials (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 16 ratings — published 2005
Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 19 ratings — published
Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.12 — 26 ratings — published 2006
Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,086 ratings — published 1970
The Philosophy of Life and Death: Ludwig Klages and the Rise of a Nazi Biopolitics (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History)
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avg rating 3.87 — 15 ratings — published 2013
Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (Ucla Clark Memorial Library Series)
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2012
Evolution: The First Four Billion Years (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 195 ratings — published 2009
A Meaning to Life (Philosophy in Action)
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avg rating 3.26 — 42 ratings — published
The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 63 ratings — published 1979
Darwinism and its Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 69 ratings — published 2006
The Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Debates (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 56 ratings — published 2000
Philosophy after Darwin: Classic and Contemporary Readings (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.54 — 13 ratings — published 2009
In Search of Mechanisms: Discoveries Across the Life Sciences (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 22 ratings — published 2013
Form and Object: A Treatise on Things (Speculative Realism)
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avg rating 3.84 — 37 ratings — published 2011
Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing (Posthumanities)
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avg rating 3.61 — 488 ratings — published 2012
Speculative Grace: Bruno Latour and Object-Oriented Theology (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 72 ratings — published 2013
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 26,197 ratings — published 1976
Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 36 ratings — published 2007
Remaking Life and Death: Toward an Anthropology of the Biosciences (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series)
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avg rating 3.71 — 7 ratings — published 2003
Walden & Civil Disobedience (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 39,352 ratings — published 1849
Reading the Way of Things: Towards a New Technology of Making Sense (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 45 ratings — published
Based Deleuze: The Reactionary Leftism of Gilles Deleuze (ebook)
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avg rating 2.82 — 109 ratings — published 2019
G. W. Leibniz's Monadology: An Edition for Students (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 1,804 ratings — published 1714
The Ego And Its Hyperstate: A Psychoanalytically Informed Dialectical Analysis of Self-Interest (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 7 ratings — published
Spinoza: Practical Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 2,340 ratings — published 1970
What Is Philosophy? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,397 ratings — published 1991
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 2,335 ratings — published 1983
Political Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 22 ratings — published 1996
The Time-Image (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 1,329 ratings — published 1985
The Limits of Critique (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 373 ratings — published 2015
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 37,692 ratings — published 1975
The Political Emerson: Essential Writings on Politics and Social Reform (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 17 ratings — published 2004
Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Writing Science)
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avg rating 4.02 — 343 ratings — published 1986
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 5,058 ratings — published 1994
The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 622 ratings — published 1988
Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 45 ratings — published 2004
Racial Beings: Experiments in Asian American New Materialisms (ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Contemporary Narrative and the Spectrum of Materiality (Ecocriticism Unbound, 1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 1,047 ratings — published 1841
Processes of Life: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 21 ratings — published 2012
Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 52 ratings — published
The Constituents of Life (the Spinoza lectures)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
“We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstractions of our technical calculation to be ultimately concrete and "fundamentally real," while our most intimate experiences are labelled "mere appearance" and something having reality only within the closet of the isolated mind.
Suppose however we were to invert this whole scheme, reverse the order in which it assigns abstract and concrete. What is central to our experience, then, need not be peripheral to nature. This sunset now, for example, caught within the network of bare winter branches, seems like a moment of benediction in which the whole of nature collaborates. Why should not these colours and these charging banners of light be as much a part of the universe as the atoms and molecules that make them up? If they were only "in my mind," then I and my mind would no longer be a part of nature. Why should the pulse of life toward beauty and value not be a part of things?
Following this path, we do not vainly seek to assemble the living out of configurations of dead stuff, but we descend downwards from more complex to simpler grades of the organic. From humans to trees to rocks; from "higher grade" to "lower grade" organisms. In the universe of energy, any individual thing is a pattern of activity within the flux, and thereby an organism at some level.”
― The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization
Suppose however we were to invert this whole scheme, reverse the order in which it assigns abstract and concrete. What is central to our experience, then, need not be peripheral to nature. This sunset now, for example, caught within the network of bare winter branches, seems like a moment of benediction in which the whole of nature collaborates. Why should not these colours and these charging banners of light be as much a part of the universe as the atoms and molecules that make them up? If they were only "in my mind," then I and my mind would no longer be a part of nature. Why should the pulse of life toward beauty and value not be a part of things?
Following this path, we do not vainly seek to assemble the living out of configurations of dead stuff, but we descend downwards from more complex to simpler grades of the organic. From humans to trees to rocks; from "higher grade" to "lower grade" organisms. In the universe of energy, any individual thing is a pattern of activity within the flux, and thereby an organism at some level.”
― The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization
“Recursion is the movement that tirelessly integrates contingency into its own functioning to realize its telos. In so doing it generates an impenetrable complexity in the course of time. Organisms exhibit a complexity of relations between parts and whole inside the body and with its environment (e.g. structural coupling) in its functioning. Life also exhibits such complexity, since it expects the unexpected, and in every encounter it attempts to turn the unexpected into an event that can contribute to its singularity.”
― Recursivity and Contingency
― Recursivity and Contingency
