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      • Trusted Partner
        Critical theory and international relations
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2023

        Critical theory and international relations

        by Stephen Hobden

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        Elephant Tourism in Nepal
        January 2024

        Elephant Tourism in Nepal

        Historical Perspectives, Current Health and Welfare Challenges, and Future Directions

        by Michelle Szydlowski

        A study of elephant tourism in Nepal from its origins in the 1960s to present day, this book examines the ways in which captive elephants face challenges as they navigate life in Nepalese elephant stables, or hattisars. Used as human conveyance, government anti-poaching patrol team members and rescue vehicles, these elephants work with and for humans. The health and welfare of captive tourism elephants is vital to the conservation of wild individuals, and this book offers an assessment of elephant needs and their existing welfare statuses. Numerous NGOS and INGOs are active in the lives of these animals and numerous elephant advocacy organizations have arisen with the goal of changing the riding culture and improving the lives of captive elephants. This book seeks to examine the motivations of these NGOs and INGOs, along with their ethical approaches to elephant health and welfare. Are the motivations of these organizations similar enough to work together towards a common goal? Or are their ethical norms so different that they will get in the way of each other? Using ordinary language and an ethics theoretical framework, this text aims to identify the norms across cultures and organisations and reframe them in ways which allow those organizations to create more successful outcomes.

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        Posthumanes Menschsein?
        April 2005

        Posthumanes Menschsein?

        Künstliche Intelligenz, Cyberspace, Roboter, Cyborgs und Designer-Menschen – Anthropologie des künstlichen Menschen im 21. Jahrhundert

        by Irrgang, Bernhard

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        Nach der Natur
        November 2010

        Nach der Natur

        Das Artensterben und die moderne Kultur

        by Ursula K. Heise

        Wir sehen uns heute mit einem Artenschwund konfrontiert, für dessen Ausmaß und Geschwindigkeit es in der Geschichte kaum Präzedenzfälle gibt. Nicht nur wissenschaftlich und politisch, sondern auch kulturell stellt diese Entwicklung eine Herausforderung dar. Ausgestorbene und aussterbende Arten werden in Kunst, Film und Literatur als Signale für eine Modernisierungskrise gedeutet, in der sich der Mensch letztlich als biologische Art neu zu denken sucht. Ursula Heise zeigt in ihrem Essay, wie aus der kreativen Umgestaltung alter Erzählmuster im Zeitalter der Globalisierung bei Wissenschaftlern, Künstlern, Schriftstellern und Regisseuren ein »posthumanes« Bild des Menschen als kosmopolitisches Tier entsteht.

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        Love and revolution
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2023

        Love and revolution

        A politics for the deep commons

        by Matt York

        Based on award-winning research, Love and revolution brings classical and contemporary anarchist thought into a mutually beneficial dialogue with a global cross-section of ecological, anti-capitalist, feminist and anti-racist activists - discussing real-life examples of the loving-caring relations that underpin many contemporary struggles. Such a (r)evolutionary love is discovered to be a common embodied experience among the activists contributing to this collective vision, manifested as a radical solidarity, as political direct action, as long-term processes of struggle, and as a deeply relational more-than-human ethics. This book provides an essential resource for all those interested in building a free society grounded in solidarity and care, and offers a timely contribution to contemporary movement discourse.

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      • Educating the Posthuman
        Education

        Educating the Posthuman

        Biosciences, Fiction, and Curriculum Studies

        by Weaver, J. A.

        "Educating the Posthuman is an exciting and refreshing book. This book is unique and unusual. Weaver explores the intersections between literature, biosciences and curriculum theory. Understanding the posthuman best happens when scholars explore these three interrelated areas of study. "From Frankenstein to Einstein, Weaver creates a fascinating text that all educators, literary scholars and scientists should read. From the problematics of pharmaceuticals to the promise of scholarly debate, this text dazzles. Weaver argues that the scientific issues of our day are best understood through the study of fiction. What does fiction teach that science does not? Are scientists blind to their own conundrums? Certainly colleges of education and public schools—Weaver claims—are bottomless conundrums. "One of the most troubling and fascinating claims that Weaver makes is that curriculum scholars should leave colleges of education and find their homes elsewhere. Colleges of education—at least in the United States—have become unthinking, rule-bound, accrediting nightmares. Weaver says that colleges of education as well as public schools are worse than nightmares because at least at the end of a nightmare we wake up. But now, in colleges of education and in public schools, the nightmare goes on and on without reprieve. "Clearly educating (the posthuman) is not happening in either colleges of education or public schools. What is happening is that professors of education and teachers as well as students are being miseducated to think that all that matters are instrumental outcomes and getting a paycheck. As if education has anything to do with getting a paycheck!! "Weaver weaves these disturbing and exciting thoughts together in a most imaginative way. This book is a must read for students, teachers, professors and everyone who grapples with what is post about the human." -- Marla Morris, Associate Professor of Education, Georgia Southern University "The notion that Colleges of Education and public education train their students to chase monsters is nothing new. The fact that these monsters are the power of a liberal arts education, democratic thinking in the Deweyan sense, and dreams of public service and public good tells us that things are horribly wrong. Drugged physically, morally and intellectually schools are producing sharp self-medicators who function in our society based on their lessons learned. The life of the mind has been replaced by the desolate future we see in the Terminator movies. "At one time the liberal arts and physical sciences were housed in the same units. Colleges of education also once followed such a model. Now we find the liberal arts reeling and their influence on our thought diminished. John Weaver’s idea of curriculum studies following the liberal arts is not one to be discarded lightly. There is no room in colleges of education for the undrugged mind to find a home. When preservice and inservice students tell me they used to like to read, then I know we’re doing the same thing to our own literacy identities that we are doing to children. "Weaver’s book is more than a wakeup call to public education and those places that train teachers to work in schools; it is a cogent argument that reminds us of what our potential once was and may yet be again. Like Murphy, in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, those clear moments of who we were become quickly obscured by Nurse Ratchett’s approaching footsteps." -- Michael Moore, Editor, English Education

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      • The Posthuman Condition
        December 1995

        The Posthuman Condition

        Consciousness Beyond The Brain

        by Pepperell, Robert

        Synthetic creativity, organic computers, genetic modification, intelligent machines &endash; such ideas are deeply challenging to many of our traditional assumptions about human uniqueness and superiority. But, ironically, it is our very capacity for technological invention that has secured us so dominant a position in the world which may lead ultimately to (as some have put it) 'The End of Man'. If we are really capable of creating entities that exceed our own skills and intellect then the consequences for humanity are almost inconceivable. Nevertheless, we must now face up to the possibility that attributes like intelligence and consciousness may be synthesised in non-human entities &endash; perhaps within our lifetime. Would such entities have human-like emotions; would they have a sense of their own being? The Posthuman Condition argues that such questions are difficult to tackle given the concepts of human existence that we have inherited from humanism, many of which can no longer be sustained. New theories about nature and the operation of the universe arising from sophisticated computer modelling are starting to demonstrate the profound interconnections between all things in reality where previously we had seen only separations. This has implications for traditional views of the human condition, consciousness, the way we look at art, and for some of the oldest problems in philosophy.

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      • Reassembling Film-Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Posthumanism

        Reassembling Film-Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Posthumanism

        by Wu Guanjun

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      • 40 Jahre Kleines Manifest H.R.Hiegel

        40 Jahre Kleines Manifest H.R.Hiegel

        smal manifesto

        by Hiegel, H.R. / Feldmann, Peter / Mentrup, Frank / Rotbard, Sharon / Schocken, Hillel / Matzig, Gerhard

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      • A Dog's World

        A Dog's World

        Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans

        by Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff

        From two of the world’s leading authorities on dogs, an imaginative journey into a future of dogs without peopleWhat would happen to dogs if humans simply disappeared? Would dogs be able to survive on their own without us? A Dog’s World imagines a posthuman future for dogs, revealing how dogs would survive—and possibly even thrive—and explaining how this new and revolutionary perspective can guide how we interact with dogs now.Drawing on biology, ecology, and the latest findings on the lives and behavior of dogs and their wild relatives, Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff—two of today’s most innovative thinkers about dogs—explore who dogs might become without direct human intervention into breeding, arranged playdates at the dog park, regular feedings, and veterinary care. Pierce and Bekoff show how dogs are quick learners who are highly adaptable and opportunistic, and they offer compelling evidence that dogs already do survive on their own—and could do so in a world without us.Challenging the notion that dogs would be helpless without their human counterparts, A Dog’s World enables us to understand these independent and remarkably intelligent animals on their own terms.

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      • Beyond Postprocess

        Beyond Postprocess

        by Sidney I. Dobrin, J.A. Rice, and Michael Vastola, eds.

        This is the first collection of essays about postprocess that has the potential to help inspire positive change in our theorizing and pedagogical practice on the same scale as did collections that made the process movement a national phenomenon.—Nancy DeJoy, author of Process This I had no interest in the postprocess party before I read this book. My kind of resistance seems exactly what the authors in this collection wanted to reach and to overcome. And they reached me, and I overcame. That's a huge doing.—Cheryl E. Ball, author of RAW: Reading and Writing New Media Beyond Postprocess offers a vigorous, provocative discussion of postprocess theory in its contemporary profile. Fueled by something like a fundamental refusal to see writing as self-evident, reducible, and easily explicable, the contributors rethink postprocess, suggesting that there is no easily defined moment or method that could be called postprocess. Instead, each contribution to this collection provides a unique and important example of what work beyond postprocess could be. Since postprocess theory in writing studies first challenged traditional conceptions of writing and the subject who writes, developments there have continued to push theorists of writing in a number of promising theoretical directions. Spaces for writing have arisen that radically alter ideological notions of space, rational thinking, intellectual property and politics, and epistemologies; and new media, digital, and visual rhetorics have increasingly complicated the scene, as well. Contributors to Beyond Postprocess reconsider writing and writing studies through posthumanism, ecology, new media, materiality, multimodal and digital writing, institutional critique, and postpedagogy. Through the lively and provocative character of these essays, Beyond Postprocess aims to provide a critical site for nothing less than the broad reevaluation of what it means to study writing today. Its polyvocal considerations and conclusions invest the volume with a unique potential to describe not what that field of study should be, but what it has the capacity to create. The central purpose of Beyond Postprocess is to unleash this creative potential.

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      • Railway Modernity in China
        Travel & Transport
        December 2020

        Railway Modernity in China

        The Temporal-Spatial Experience and the Cultural Imagination of Trains, 19840-1937

        by Li Siyi

        The railway invention propelled the rediscovery of the world!   For a long time, railways and trains, as the most dazzling products of modern technological civilization, have naturally been regarded as symbols of modernity. The railway was born to rediscover the world. It has changed the way we feel time and space and reshaped our grasp of the world. It plays a valuable role in the social economy and penetrates the field of history and culture.   Chronically-structured, RAILWAY MODERNITY IN CHINA, traces the naming story of the railway from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China: the visuals and images in the Dianshizhai Pictorial (點石齋畫報), the debate between the Wusong Railway (吳淞鐵路)and the Westernization Movement (洋務運動), Sun Yat-sen’s (孫中山) railway planning and national construction, the six different aspects of railway travel and literary writing during the Republic of China, the railway experience and literary expression of modern subjects and strangers, under the theme of time and space, cultural imagination relating to railways and trains, rethinking many issues of modernity.   Li Siyi used the railway as a method, an opportunity, and a key to understanding Chinese modernity. Li explores the railway adaptation after its entrance into China from 1840 to 1937, tracing its impact from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China and how the experience connects with the modern imagination. When the railway becomes the intermediary between man and the world, how do "China" and "modern Chinese" use language cognition, visual perception, and event discourse to be parallel and indispensable in such a "human-railway-world." Smoke takes shape in illustrating this division.   The story about the railway is endless. There is a cave with culture and thought behind it, which is worthy of in-depth study. Because whether it is railways or modernity, we don't know them in a self-righteous way.

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