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The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don’t know, now with a new . . .
«Kanskje finnes det for latteren ennå en fremtid!», skriver Nietzsche i åpningen av Den muntre vitenskapen. Med satire og skarpe iakttakelser legger han blant annet . . .
Hvorfor gjør vi feil? Og hvorfor i all verden fortsetter vi å gjøre de samme feilene gang på gang? Vi tenker i ett av to . . .
«The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western world. Distrust . . .
Virilio’s exploration of the relationship between technology, war and information technology. “Civilization or the militarization of science?” With this typically hyperbolic and provocative question as . . .
With this book Paul Virilio inaugurated the new science whose object of study is the «dromocratic» revolution. Speed and Politics (first published in France in . . .
The Believing Brain is bestselling author Michael Shermer’s comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguishedSynthesizing thirty years . . .
«Verden er min forestilling.» Med denne påstanden innleder Schopenhauer sitt hovedverk fra 1818. Alt som kan erkjennes, er objekt for et subjekt. Omvendt gjelder det . . .
Michel Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive . . .
In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of . . .
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of . . .
There is a catastrophe within contemporary art. What I call the «optically correct» is at stake. The vision machine and the motor have triggered it, . . .
“One day the day will come when the day will not come.” Bleak in its analysis of the social destruction wrought by modern technologies of . . .
Massive technological innovations now allow scientists to extract and analyze ancient DNA as never before, and it has become clear–in part from David Reich’s own . . .
‘Hinsides godt og ondt’ er en hyllest til livet og kreativiteten og på mange måter et endelig farvel med metafysikken. I åpningen sier Nietzsche at . . .
Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality—Georges Bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling perspective. He challenges any single discourse on . . .
How would it be if what we take for human advance were simply a technological progress that literally leaves us out of its equations? What . . .
A trenchant critique of new techniques of waging war, and its reduction to images on a screen Written with his characteristic flair, Virilio’s latest book . . .
With around 645 million people expected to be displaced Ð by wars and other catastrophes Ð by 2050, Virilio begins The Futurism of the Instant . . .
The underlying premise of all of Virilio’s work is that we must analyzespeed and acceleration throughout history and see it as constitutive of historicalepochs. Continual . . .