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Though contemporary European philosophy and critical theory have long had a robust engagement with Christianity, there has been no similar engagement with Buddhism—a surprising lack, given Buddhism's global reach and obvious affinities with much of Continental philosophy. This volume fills that gap, focusing on "nothing"—essential to Buddhism, of course, but also a key concept in critical theory from Hegel and Marx through deconstruction, queer theory, and contemporary speculative philosop...

In The Politics of Vibration Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration. Focusing on the work of three contemporary musicians—Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, Swedish drone composer and philosopher Catherine Christer Hennix, and Houston-based hip-hop musician DJ Screw—Boon outlines how music constructs a vibrational space of individual and collective transformation. Contributing to a new interdisciplinary field of vibration studies, he understand...

From the antiquity of Homer to yesterday's Naked Lunch, writers have found inspiration, and readers have lost themselves, in a world of the imagination tinged and oftentimes transformed by drugs. The age-old association of literature and drugs receives its first comprehensive treatment in this far-reaching work. Drawing on history, science, biography, literary analysis, and ethnography, Marcus Boon shows that the concept of drugs is fundamentally interdisciplinary, and reveals how...

This book is devoted to a deceptively simple but original argument: that copying is an essential part of being human, that the ability to copy is worthy of celebration, and that, without recognizing how integral copying is to being human, we cannot understand ourselves or the world we live in.In spite of the laws, stigmas, and anxieties attached to it, the word “copying” permeates contemporary culture, shaping discourse on issues from hip hop to digitization to gender reassignment,...

Conscious Coaching: The Ultimate Guide to Starting Your Own Coaching Business, Discover the Proven Strategies And Tips on How to Make Money With Your Own Coaching BusinessCoaching is one of the most lucrative and sustainable long-term businesses anyone can have so if you're looking to make some money, you might be interested in starting your own coaching business. You don't have to be an expert on the subject matter; you just have to make sure you know more than the person you are ...

Healthy Weight Loss Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Guide to the Carb Cycling Diet and Cooking for Weight LossIt feels like compared to years ago, there is much more delicious and mouth-watering food these days. Sadly, most of them are unhealthy and often contain lots of sugar and salt. No wonder there is now an obesity epidemic. If you want to stay healthy and fit, it is much better if you cook your own food so you have control of what you put inside your body. It’s important to exercise d...

Cooking for Weight Loss: Get a Comprehensive Guide on What You Can Cook To Become Healthy and Stay in ShapeIt feels like compared to years ago, there is much more delicious and mouth-watering food these days. Sadly, most of them are not healthy and often contain lots of sugar and salt. No wonder there is now an obesity epidemic. If you want to stay healthy and fit, it is much better if you cook your own food so you have control of what you put inside your body. It’s important to ex...

The Philosophy of Matter is a journey in thinking through the material fate of the earth itself; its surfaces and undercurrrents, ecologies, environments and irreparable cracks.With figures such as Spinoza, Gilles Deleuze and Michel Serres as philosophical guides and writings on New Materialism, Posthumanism and Affect Theory as intellectual context, Rick Dolphijn proposes a radical rethinking of some of the basic themes of philosophy: subjectivity, materiality, body (both...

The French philosopher Félix Guattari frequently visited Japan during the 1980s and organized exchanges between French and Japanese artists and intellectuals. His immersion into the “machinic eros” of Japanese culture put him into contact with media theorists such as Tetsuo Kogawa and activists within the mini-FM community (Radio Home Run), documentary filmmakers (Mitsuo Sato), photographers (Keiichi Tahara), novelists (Kobo Abe), internationally recognized architects (Shin Takamatsu), and...

It is now widely acknowledged that play is central to our lives. As a phenomenon, play poses important questions of reality, subjectivity, competition, inclusion and exclusion. This international collection is the third in a series of books (including The Philosophy of Play and Philosophical Perspectives on Play) that aims to build paradigmatic bridges between scholars of philosophy and scholars of play.Divided into four sections (Play as Life, Play as Games, Play...

These essays are a collection on diverse topics. Philosophical and Literary issues are read critically. The essays include post colonial criticism, feminist and queer studies, aesthetics, philosophy and literary theory. This collection is the result of a mass reading of many texts.

One of our most brilliant social critics—author of the bestselling The Middle Mind—presents a scathing critique of the “delusions” of science alongside a rousing defense of the tradition of Romanticism and the “big” questions.With the rise of religion critics such as Richard Dawkins, and of pseudo-science advocates such as Malcolm Gladwell and Jonah Lehrer, you’re likely to become a subject of ridicule if you wonder “Why is there something instead of nothing?” or “What is ...