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Posted by Devin Shaw | Mar 21, 2019 | Book Reviews
Saige Walton. Cinema’s Baroque Flesh: Film, Phenomenology and the Art of Entanglement. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016; 233 pages. ISBN 9789089649515. Reviewed by Mackenzie Leadston, Ohio State University. Since the...
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Robin Celikates, Critique as Social Practice: Critical Theory and Social Self-Understanding. Translated by Naomi van Steenbergen. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018; 238 pages. ISBN: 978-1786604620. Reviewed by...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Aug 30, 2018 | Book Reviews
Benjanun Sriduangkaew and J. Moufawad-Paul, Methods Devour Themselves: A Conversation. Winchester: Zero Books, 2018; 143 pages. ISBN: 978-1785358265. Reviewed by Devin Zane Shaw, Douglas College. Philosophy, at least in the...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | May 16, 2018 | Book Reviews
Mark Steven, Splatter Capital: The Political Economy of Gore Films. London: Repeater Books, 2017; 171 pages. ISBN 978-1910924954. Review by Joshua Moufawad-Paul, York University. In the past decade there has been a surfeit of...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Sep 11, 2017 | Book Reviews
Brendan Moran and Carlo Salzani (eds.), Towards the Critique of Violence: Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben. New York: Bloomsbury. 2015; 251+xii pages. ISBN: 978-1-4725-2324-2. Reviewed by Michael P. A. Murphy, Queen’s...
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Arthur Kroker, Exits to the Posthuman Future. Cambridge: Polity, 2014; 224 pages. ISBN: 978-0-7456-7163-5. Reviewed by Aaron Landry, Humber College. In Exits to the Posthuman Future, Arthur Kroker examines the future in the...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Aug 26, 2017 | Book Reviews
Karl Rosenkranz, Aesthetics of Ugliness. Translated by Andrei Pop and Mechtild Widrich. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015; 335 pages. ISBN: 978-1-47256-885-4. Reviewed by Wes Furlotte, Dominican University College/University of Ottawa...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Jul 16, 2017 | Book Reviews, News
Elena del Río, The Grace of Destruction: A Vital Ethology of Extreme Cinemas. London: Bloomsbury, 2016; 267 pages. ISBN 978-1501303029. Reviewed by David H. Fleming, University of Nottingham Ningbo China. As the latest...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | May 2, 2017 | Book Reviews
Daniel Breazeale, Thinking Through the Wissenschaftslehre: Themes from Fichte’s Early Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013; xxii + 460 pages. ISBN: 978-0199233632. Reviewed by Jane Dryden, Mount Allison University....
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Feb 23, 2017 | Book Reviews
Rex Butler and David Denny (eds.), Lars von Trier’s Women. London: Bloomsbury, 2017; 264 pages. ISBN: 978-1501322457. Reviewed by William J. Simmons, CUNY. The relationship between Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier’s filmography...
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