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Title: Sensoria
Condition: New
Subtitle: Thinkers for the Twentieth-first Century
Author: McKenzie Wark
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1788735064
EAN: 9781788735063
ISBN: 9781788735063
Publisher: Verso Books
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Date: 18/08/2020
Description: As we face the compounded crises of late capitalism, environmental catastrophe and technological transformation, who are the thinkers and the ideas who will allow us to understand the world we live in? McKenzie Wark surveys three areas at the cutting edge of current critical thinking: design, environment, technology and introduces us to the thinking of nineteen major writers. Each chapter is a concise account of an individual thinker, providing useful context and connections to the work of the others.

The authors include: Sianne Ngai, Kodwo Eshun, Lisa Nakamura, Hito Steyerl, Yves Citton, Randy Martin, Jackie Wang, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Achille Mbembe, Deborah Danowich and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Eyal Weizman, Cory Doctorow, Benjamin Bratton, Tiziana Terranova, Keller Easterling, Jussi Parikka.

Wark argues that we are too often told that expertise is obtained by specialisation. Sensoria connects the themes and arguments across intellectual silos. They explore the edges of disciplines to show how we might know the world: through the study of culture, the different notions of how we create such things, and the impact that the machines that we devise have had upon us. The book is a vital and timely introduction to the future both as a warning but also as a road map on how we might find our way out of the current crisis.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 210mm
Item Length: 140mm
Item Width: 20mm
Item Weight: 289g
Release Year: 2020

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