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Living with Monsters: Ethnographic Fiction about Real Monsters

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For every generic type of monster—ghost, demon, vampire, dragon—there are countless locally specific manifestations, with their own names, traits, and appearances. Such monsters populate all corners of the globe haunting their humans wherever they live. ...

Turkish Voices

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Turkish Voices, written during 1989/90, is initially based on the Second New Turkish poet Cemal Süreya’s first book of poetry, Uvercinka (Pigeon English), which he wrote during the 1950s, in his twenties. In this book, ...

Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom: Readings to Repair Democracy

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A worldwide struggle between democracy and authoritarianism set against a backdrop of global surveillance capitalism is unmistakable. Examples range from Myanmar, China, and the Philippines to Hungary, Turkey, Russia, and the United States. Fascism, Vulnerability, ...

Ontohackers: Radical Movement Philosophy in the Age of Algorithms

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Ontohackers redefines what movement, worlds, and bodies are through the sense of proprioception reconceptualized as formless fluctuation field, a movement matrix that is itself also thought, and which underlies all life forms and fields including ...

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