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Forensic Architecture - Violence at the Threshold of Detectability by Eyal Weizman
Category: Architecture | Series: Zone Bks.
In recent years, a little-known research group named Forensic Architecture began using novel research methods to undertake a series of investigations into human rights abuses. Today, the group provides crucial evidence for international courts and works with a wide range of activist groups, NGOs, Amnest ...Show more
Movement of the Free Spirit by Raoul Vaneigem
Category: History | Series: Zone Bks.
This book by the legendary Situationist activist and author of The Revolution of Everyday Life is a fiercely partisan historical reflection on the ways religious and economic forces have shaped Western culture. Within this broad frame, Raoul Vaneigem examines the heretical and millenarian movements that ...Show more
Objectivity by Lorraine J. Daston
Category: History | Series: Zone Bks.
Objectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. In Objectivity, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences -- and show how the concept differs from its alternatives, truth-to-nature and trained judgment. This is a story of lofty e ...Show more
Pure Immanence - Essays on a Life by Gilles Deleuze; John Rajchman (Introduction by); Anne Boyman (Translator)
Category: Culture | Series: Zone Bks.
Pure Immanence collects the essays of Gilles Deleuze on a complex theme at the heart of his philosophy. In his last piece of writing, included here, Deleuze gives a simple name to this problem: "a life." Newly translated and gathered in one volume for the first time, the essays in Pure Immanence capture ...Show more
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Zone Bks.
For the first time, Guy Debord's pivotal work Society of the Spectacle appears in a definitive and authoritative English translation.
Theory of Religion by Georges Bataille
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Zone Bks.
Theory of Religion brings to philosophy what Georges Bataille's earlier book The Accursed Share brought to anthropology and history, namely, an analysis based on notions of excess and expenditure. No other work of Bataille's, and perhaps no other work anywhere since Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spir ...Show more
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