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Who Wrote This?
How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human cover to
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NAOMI S. BARON
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Would you read this book if a computer wrote it? Would you even
know? And why would it matter?

Today's eerily impressive artificial intelligence writing tools present us

with a crucial challenge: As writers, do we unthinkingly adopt AI's
time-saving advantages or do we stop to weigh what we lose when
heeding their siren call? Linguist and educator Naomi Baron leads us
on a journey connecting the dots between human literacy and today's
technology. Baron gives readers a spirited overview of the emergence
of both literacy and AI, and a glimpse of their possible future. As the
technology becomes increasingly sophisticated and fluent, it's tempting
to take the easy way out and let AI do the work for us. Baron cautions
that such efficiency isn't always in our interest. As AI plies us with
suggestions or full-blown text, we risk losing not just our technical
skills but the power of writing as a springboard for personal reflection
and unique expression.

Funny, informed, and conversational, Who Wrote This? urges us as

individuals and as communities to make conscious choices about the
extent to which we collaborate with AI. Baron shows us how to work
with AI and how to spot where it risks diminishing the valuable
cognitive and social benefits of being literate.

Naomi S. Baron is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at American SEPTEMBER 336 pages, 2 tables, 1
University. Of her nine earlier books, her most recent are How We Read figures
Now: Strategic Choices for Print, Screen, and Audio (2021), Words 6x9
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On: Language in an Online and Mobile World (2008). She has appeared
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
on Good Morning America, 20/20, CNBC, and CNN, and her writing has Communication Studies
been widely published, including in the New York Times, the Los Angeles
Times, the Washington Post, and The Conversation.
A History of Fake Things on the Internet
WALTER J. SCHEIRER

As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly

migrate online, the line between what is "real" and what is digitally
fabricated grows ever thinner—and that fake content has undeniable
real-world consequences. A History of Fake Things on the Internet
takes the long view of how advances in technology brought us to the
point where faked information, images, and audiovisual content are
nearly indistinguishable from what is authentic or true.

Computer scientist Walter J. Scheirer takes a deep dive into the origins
of fake news, conspiracy theories, reports of the paranormal, and other
deviations from reality that have recently become part of mainstream
culture, from the 19th century darkroom to the artistic stylings of GPT
-3.

His story focuses on three different visionary communities who are

responsible for fashioning the way digital fakery is commonly
deployed today: computer hackers, digital artists, and AI researchers.
Ultimately, Scheirer argues that problems associated with fake content
are not intrinsic properties of the content itself, but rather, stem from
human behavior—and pose serious questions about the integrity of our
democracy in the face of an information literacy deficit.

Walter J. Scheirer is the Dennis O. Doughty Collegiate Associate DECEMBER 272 pages, 42 illustrations
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre
Dame. Cloth 9781503632882
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The Grounds of the Novel
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What grounds the fictional world of a novel? Or is such a world

peculiarly groundless? In a powerful engagement with the latest
debates in novel theory, Daniel Wright investigates how novelists
reckon with the ontological status of their works. Philosophers who
debate whether fictional worlds exist take the novel as an ontological
problem to be solved; instead, Wright reveals the novel as a genre of
immanent ontological critique.

Wright argues that the novel imagines its own metaphysical "grounds"
through figuration, understanding fictional being as self-sufficient,
cohesive, and alive, rather than as beholden to the actual world as an
existential anchor. Through philosophically attuned close readings of
novels and reflections on writerly craft by Thomas Hardy, Olive
Schreiner, Colson Whitehead, Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith, Henry
James, and Akwaeke Emezi, Wright shares an impassioned vision of
reading as stepping into ontologically terraformed worlds, and of
literary criticism as treading and re-treading the novel's grounds.

Daniel Wright is Associate Professor of English at the University of JANUARY 216 pages, 1 illustrations
Toronto and the author of Bad Logic: Reasoning about Desire in the
Victorian Novel (2018). Paper 9781503637559
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics &
Theory
Styles of Seriousness
STEVEN CONNOR

Being serious demands serious kinds of work. In Styles of Seriousness,

Steven Connor reflects on the surprisingly various ways in which a
sense of the serious is made and maintained, revealing that while
seriousness is the most powerful feeling, it is also the most poignantly
indeterminate, perhaps because of the impossibility of being
completely serious.

In colloquy with philosophers such as Aristotle, Nietzsche, James,

Sartre, Austin, Agamben and Sloterdijk and writers like Shakespeare,
Byron, Auden and Orwell, Connor considers the linguistic and ritual
behaviors associated with different modes of seriousness: importance;
intention, or ways of really 'meaning things'; sincerity; solemnity;
urgency; regret; warning; and ordeal. The central claim of the book is
human beings are capable of taking things seriously in a way that
nonhuman animals are not, for the unexpected reason that human
beings are so much more versatile than most animals at not being
completely serious. One always in fact has a choice about whether or
not to take seriously something that is supposed to be so. As a
consequence, seriousness depends on different kinds of formalization
or stylized practice. Styles of seriousness matter, Connor shows,
because human beings are incapable of simply and spontaneously
existing. Being a human means having to take seriously one's style of
being.

Steven Connor is Director of Research in the Digital Futures Institute, OCTOBER 264 pages,
King's College, London, and Grace 2 Professor of English Emeritus at the
University of Cambridge. He is the author of Giving Way: Thoughts on Paper 9781503636866
Unappreciated Dispositions (Stanford, 2019) and twenty other books. Cloth 9781503636453
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern /
General
Environmental Humanities on the Brink
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In this experimental work of ecocriticism, Vincent Bruyere confronts

the seeming pointlessness of the humanities amidst spectacularly
negative future projections of environmental collapse.

The vanitas paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries dazzlingly depict
heaps of riches alongside skulls, shells, and hourglasses. Sometimes
even featuring the illusion that their canvases are peeling away, vanitas
images openly declare their own pointlessness in relation to the future.
This book takes inspiration from the vanitas tradition to fearlessly
contemplate the stakes of the humanities in the Anthropocene present,
when the accumulated human record could well outlast the climate
conditions for our survival. Staging a series of unsettling encounters
with early modern texts and images whose claims of relevance have
long since expired, Bruyere experiments with the interpretive
affordances of allegory and fairytale, still life and travelogues.

Considering questions of quiet erasure and environmental memory,

this book argues we ought to keep reading even by the flickering light
of extinction.

Vincent Bruyere is Associate Professor of French at Emory University. SEPTEMBER 184 pages, 21 illustrations
He is the author of Perishability Fatigue: Forays in Environmental Loss
and Decay (2018). Cloth 9781503630505
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LITERARY CRITICISM European /
General
Blood and Lightning
On Becoming a Tattooer
DUSTIN KISKADDON

Any tattoo is the outcome of an intimate, often hidden, process. The

people, bodies, and money that make tattooing what it is blend together
and form a heady cocktail, something described by Matt, the owner of
Oakland's Premium Tattoo, as "Blood and Lightning." Faced with the
client's anticipation of pain and excitement, the tattooer must carefully
perform calm authority to obscure a world of preparation and
vigilance. "Blood and Lightning, my dude," the mysterious and
intoxicating effect of tattooing done right.

Dustin Kiskaddon takes us behind the scenes to the complex world of

professional tattooers. We join people who must routinely manage a
messy and carnal type of work. Blood and Lightning brings us through
the tattoo shop, where the smell of sterilizing agents, the hum of
machines, and the sound of music spill out onto the back patio. It is
here that Matt, along with his comrades, review the day's wins,
bemoan its losses, and prepare for the future.

Ultimately, the stories in this book teach us about the roles our bodies
play in the social world. Both medium and object of art, our bodies are
purveyors of sociocultural significance, sites of capitalist negotiations,
and vivid encapsulations of the human condition.

Dustin Kiskaddon is a cultural sociologist whose research has been FEBRUARY 288 pages, 15 illustrations
published by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and in the
Companion to Body Politics. His tattoo work can be seen on Instagram, Cloth 9781503635609
@Dustin.Kiskaddon. After nearly a decade of teaching and a few years of eBook 9781503637412
SOCIAL SCIENCE Popular Culture
professional tattooing, he now uses his expertise in culture, the economy,
and technology to conduct applied research.
Death Dust
The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological
Weapons Programs
WILLIAM C. POTTER, SARAH BIDGOOD, SAMUEL MEYER,
AND HANNA NOTTE

The postwar period saw increased interest in the idea of relatively

easy-to-manufacture but devastatingly lethal radiological munitions
whose use would not discriminate between civilian and military
targets. Death Dust explores the largely unknown history of the
development of radiological weapons (RW)—weapons designed to
disperse radioactive material without a nuclear detonation—through a
series of comparative case studies across the United States, the Soviet
Union, the United Kingdom, Iraq, and Egypt.

The authors illuminate the historical drivers of and impediments to

radiological weapons innovation. They also examine how new, dire
geopolitical events—such as the war in Ukraine—could encourage
other states to pursue RW and analyze the impact of the spread of such
weapons on nuclear deterrence and the nonproliferation regime. Death
Dust presents practical, necessary steps to reduce the likelihood of a
resurgence of interest in and pursuit of radiological weapons by state
actors.

William C. Potter is Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar Professor of DECEMBER 232 pages,
Nonproliferation Studies and Founding Director of the James Martin
Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) at the Middlebury Institute of Paper 9781503637658
International Studies at Monterey (MIIS). Cloth 9781503636668
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Sarah Bidgood is Director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at
POLITICAL SCIENCE International
CNS. Relations / Arms Control
Samuel Meyer is an Analyst at the Office of Radiological Security, U.S.
Department of Energy.
Hanna Notte is a Senior Research Associate with the Vienna Center for
Disarmament and Non-Proliferation.
How Sanctions Work
Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare
NARGES BAJOGHLI, VALI NASR, DJAVAD SALEHI-
ISFAHANI, AND ALI VAEZ

When policymakers ask if sanctions 'work,' it follows easily that

sanctions do have substantial effects, especially those imposed by a
country with the economic influence of the United States. Certainly,
sanctions induce clear shockwaves in both the economy and political
culture of the targeted state, and in the everyday lives of citizens. But a
more clear-cut question asks if economic sanctions induce the
behavioral changes that match intended foreign policy: do sanctions
work in the way they should?

In How Sanctions Work, the authors make Iran, the most sanctioned
country in the world, their centerpiece in studying the efficacy of
international sanctions. Comprehensive sanctions are meant to induce
uprisings or pressures to change the behavior of the ruling
establishment, or to weaken its hold on power. But, after four decades,
the case of Iran shows the opposite to be true. Sanctions have
strengthened the Iranian state, impoverished its population, increased
the state's repressive tendencies, and escalated Iran's military posture
vis-à-vis the U.S. and its allies in the region. The authors argue for a
more nuanced understanding of sanctions and their efficacy. It is time
to understand how sanctions really work.

Narges Bajoghli is Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at the FEBRUARY 200 pages, 1 table, 13
School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. figures

Vali Nasr is Professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at Paper 9781503637801
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Djavad Salehi-Isfahani is Professor of Economics at Virgina Tech. Relations / Arms Control

Ali Vaez is the Director of the International Crisis Group's Iran Project.
Elastic Empire
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LISA BHUNGALIA
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The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid

flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the
global war on terror. Some two decades later, this securitized model of
aid has become normalized across donor intervention in Palestine.
Elastic Empire traces how foreign aid, on which much of the
Palestinian population is dependent, has multiplied the sites and means
through which Palestinian life is regulated, surveilled, and policed—
this book tells the story of how aid has also become war.

Drawing on extensive research conducted in Palestine, Elastic Empire

offers a novel accounting of the US security state. The US war
chronicled here is not one of tanks, grenades, and guns, but a quieter
one waged through the interlacing of aid and law. It emerges in the
infrastructures of daily life—in a greenhouse and library, in the
collection of personal information and mapping of land plots, in the
halls of municipal councils and in local elections—and indelibly
transfigures lives. Situated in a landscape where the lines between
humanitarianism and the global war on terror are increasingly blurred,
Elastic Empire reveals the shape-shifting nature of contemporary
imperial formations, their realignments and reformulations, their
haunted sites, and their obscured but intimate forms.

Lisa Bhungalia is Assistant Professor of Geography at Kent State DECEMBER 264 pages, 11 illustrations
University.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security
(National & International
The Russian Way of Deterrence
Strategic Culture, Coercion, and War
DMITRY (DIMA) ADAMSKY

From a globally-renowned expert on Russian military strategy and

national security, The Russian Way of Deterrence investigates Russia's
approach to coercion (both deterrence and compellence), comparing
and contrasting it with the Western conceptualization of this strategy.

Strategic deterrence, or what Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky calls deterrence

à la Russe, is one of the main tools of Russian statecraft. Adamsky
deftly describes the genealogy of the Russian approach to coercion and
highlights the cultural, ideational, and historical factors that have
shaped it in the nuclear, conventional and informational domains.
Drawing on extensive research on Russian strategic culture, Adamsky
highlights several empirical and theoretical peculiarities of the Russian
coercion strategy, including how this strategy relates to the war in
Ukraine. Exploring the evolution of strategic deterrence, along with its
sources and prospective avenues of development. Adamsky provides a
comprehensive intellectual history that makes it possible to understand
the deep mechanics of this Russian stratagem, the current and
prospective patterns of the Kremlin's coercive conduct, and the
implications for policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic.

Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky, Professor at the Lauder School of OCTOBER 224 pages,
Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy at Reichman University (IDC
Herzliya) in Israel, and visiting professor at the Vytuatas Magnus Paper 9781503637825
University. He is the author of Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy (Stanford, Cloth 9781503630871
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2019) and The Culture of Military Innovation (Stanford, 2010).
POLITICAL SCIENCE / World /
Russian & Former Soviet Union
The Antechamber
Toward a History of Waiting
HELMUT PUFF

Helmut Puff invites readers to visit societies and spaces of the past
through the lens of a particular temporal modality: waiting. From
literature, memoirs, manuals, chronicles, visuals, and other documents,
Puff presents a history of waiting anchored in antechambers—interior
rooms designated and designed for people to linger.

In early modern continental Western Europe, antechambers became

standard in the residences of the elites. As a time-space infrastructure
these rooms shaped encounters between unequals. By imposing spatial
distance and temporal delays, antechambers constituted authority,
rank, and power. Puff explores both the logic and the experience of
waiting in such formative spaces, showing that time divides as much as
it unites, and that far from what people have said about early moderns,
they approached living in time with apprehensiveness. To early
modern Europeans, time was not an objective force external to the self
but something that was tied to acting in time.

Situated at the intersection of history, literature, and the history of art

and architecture, this wide-ranging study demonstrates that waiting has
a history that has much to tell us about social and power relations in
the past and present.

Helmut Puff is Elizabeth L. Eisenstein Collegiate Professor of History OCTOBER 264 pages, 23 illustrations
and Germanic Languages at the University of Michigan. His other books
include Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland (2003) as well Paper 9781503637023
as Miniature Monuments: Modeling German History (2014). Cloth 9781503635418
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HISTORY Social History
The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904
-1939
CHRIS MILLINGTON

The Invention of Terrorism in France investigates the political and

social imaginaries of 'terrorism' in early twentieth-century France.
Chris Millington traces the development of how the French conceived
of terrorism, from the late nineteenth-century notion that terrorism was
the deed of the mad anarchist bomber, to the the fraught political
clashes of the 1930s when terrorism came to be understood as a
political act perpetrated against French interests by organized
international movements. Through a close analysis of a series of
terrorist incidents and representations thereof in public discourse and
the press, the book argues that contemporary ideas of terrorism in
France as 'unFrench' emerged in the interwar years and subsequently
took root long before the terrorist campaigns of Algerian nationalists
during the 1950s and 1960s.

Millington conceptualizes 'terrorism' not only as the act itself, but also
as a political and cultural construction of violence composed from a
variety of discourses and deployed in particular circumstances by
commentators, witnesses, and perpetrators. In doing so, he argues that
the political and cultural battles inherent to perceptions of terrorism lay
bare numerous concerns, not least anxieties over immigration,
antiparliamentarianism, representations of gender, and the future of
European peace.

Chris Millington is Reader in Modern European History at Manchester SEPTEMBER 304 pages, 2 tables, 9
Metropolitan University. illustrations

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HISTORY Europe / France
Birth of the Geopolitical Age
Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China
SHELLEN XIAO WU

From the 1850s until the mid-twentieth century, a period marked by

global conflicts and anxiety about dwindling resources and closing
opportunities after decades of expansion, the frontier became a mirror
for historically and geographically specific hopes and fears. From Asia
to Europe and the Americas, countries around the world engaged with
new interpretations of empire and the deployment of science and
technology to aid frontier development in extreme environments.

Through a century of political turmoil and war, China nevertheless is

the only nation to successfully navigate the twentieth century with its
imperial territorial expanse largely intact. In Birth of the Geopolitical
Age, Shellen Wu demonstrates how global examples of frontier
settlements refracted through China's unique history and informed the
making of the modern Chinese state. Wu weaves a narrative that
moves through time and space, the lives of individuals, and empires'
rise and fall and rebirth, to show how the subsequent reshaping of
Chinese geopolitical ambitions in the twentieth century, and the global
transformation of frontiers into colonial laboratories, continues to
reorder global power dynamics in East Asia and wider world to this
day.

Shellen Xiao Wu is the Lawrence Gipson Chair of Transnational History SEPTEMBER 304 pages, 16
at Lehigh University. She is the author of Empires of Coal: Fueling illustrations, 1 maps
China's Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860–1919 (Stanford, 2015).
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HISTORY Asia / China
Wombs of Empire
Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan
SUJIN LEE

Japan's contemporary struggle with low fertility rates is a well-known

issue, as are the country's efforts to bolster their population in order to
address attendant socio-economic challenges. However, though this
anxiety about and discourse around population is thought of as
relatively recent phenomenon, government and medical intervention in
reproduction and fertility are hardly new in Japan. The "population
problem (jinko mondai)" became a buzzword in the country over a
century ago, in the 1910s, with a growing call among Japanese social
scientists and social reformers to solve what were seen as existential
demographic issues.

In this book, Sujin Lee traces the trajectory of population discourses in

Interwar and Wartime Japan, and positions them as a critical site where
competing visions of modernity came into tension. Lee destabilizes the
essentialized notions of motherhood and population by dissecting
gender norms, modern knowledge, and government practices, each of
which played a crucial role in valorizing, regulating, and mobilizing
women's maternal bodies and responsibilities in the name of
population governance. Lee shows how anxieties over demographics
have undergirded justifications for ethno-nationalism and racism,
colonialism and imperialism, and gender segregation for much of
Japan's modern history.

Sujin Lee is Assistant Professor of Pacific and Asian Studies at the OCTOBER 264 pages, 13 illustrations
University of Victoria
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HISTORY Asia / Japan
Not My Type
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In the world of online dating, race-based discrimination is not only

tolerated, but encouraged as part of a pervasive belief that it is simply a
neutral, personal choice about one's romantic partner. Indeed, it is so
much a part of our inherited wisdom about dating and romance that it
actually directs the algorithmic infrastructures of most major online
dating platforms, such that they openly reproduce racist and sexist
hierarchies.

In, Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating, Apryl

Williams presents a socio-technical exploration of dating platforms'
algorithms, their lack of transparency, the legal and ethical discourse in
these companies' community guidelines, and accounts from individual
users in order to argue that sexual racism is a central feature of today's
online dating culture. She discusses this reality in the context of facial
recognition and sorting software as well as user experiences, drawing
parallels to the long history of eugenics and banned interracial
partnerships. Ultimately, Williams calls for, both a reconceptualization
of the technology and policies that govern dating agencies, and also a
reexamination of sociocultural beliefs about attraction, beauty, and
desirability.

Apryl Williams is a jointly appointed Assistant Professor at the FEBRUARY 232 pages, 1 table, 5
University of Michigan in the Department of Communication & Media figures, 10 illustrations
and the Digital Studies Institute. She is also a Senior Fellow in
Trustworthy AI and a Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Paper 9781503635050
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Klein Center for Internet and Society. Her research has been published in
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Big Data & Society, Ethnicities, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Social Media & Society, among others.
The Indebted Woman
Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism
ISABELLE GUÉRIN, SANTOSH KUMAR, AND G.
VENKATASUBRAMANIAN

Women, and particularly poor women, have become essential cogs in

the wheel of financialized capitalism. Globally, women are responsible
for managing household debt, and that debt has exploded over the last
decade, reaching an all-time high after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Across various categories of loans, including subprime lending,
microcredit policies, and consumer loans, as well as rent and utilities,
women are overrepresented as clients and managers, and are being
enfolded into the system.

The Indebted Woman discusses the crucial yet invisible roles poor
women play in making and consolidating debt and credit markets.
Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar and G. Venkatasubramanian spent
over two decades observing a credit market that specifically targets
women in the Indian countryside of east-central Tamil Nadu.They
found that paying off debts required labor, frequently involved sexual
transactions, and shaped women's bodies and subjectivities. Bringing
together ethnography, statistical surveys, and financial diaries, they
offer for the first time a comprehensive theory for this sexual division
of debt that goes far beyond the Indian case, exposing the ways
capitalism transforms womanhood, and how this transformation in turn
fuels capitalism.
*Stanford University Press does not handle French language rights to this title*

Isabelle Guérin is Senior Research Fellow at the French Institute of SEPTEMBER 248 pages, 4 tables, 2
Research for Sustainable Development, and Associate at the French figures
Institute of Pondicherry.
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G. Venkatasubramanian has been a sociologist and Research Fellow at
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the French Institute of Pondicherry for the past 35 years. SOCIAL SCIENCE Gender Studies
Santosh Kumar has been collaborating with researchers at the French
Institute of Pondicherry for 25 years.
In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure
Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South
FIRUZEH SHOKOOH VALLE

Including women in the global South as users, producers, consumers,

designers, and developers of technology has become a mantra against
inequality, prompting movements to train individuals in information
and communication technologies and foster the participation and
retention of women in science and technology fields.

Firuzeh Shokooh Valle argues that these efforts have given rise to an
idealized, female economic figure that combines technological
dexterity and keen entrepreneurial instinct with gendered stereotypes
of care and selflessness. Narratives about the "equalizing" potential of
digital technologies spotlight these women's capacity to overcome
inequality using said technologies, ignoring the barriers and
circumstances that create such inequality in the first place as well as
the potentially violent role of technology in their lives.

In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure examines how women in the

Global South experience and resist the coopting and depoliticizing
nature of these scripts. Drawing on fieldwork in Costa Rica and a
transnational feminist digital organization, Shokooh Valle explores the
ways that feminist activists advance a new feminist technopolitics.

Firuzeh Shokooh Valle is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Franklin SEPTEMBER 264 pages, 1 table, 3
and Marshall College. Previously, she was a journalist in Puerto Rico illustrations
covering violence against women, the LGBTQI+ community, migration,
racism, and social movements, and earned numerous national awards for Paper 9781503636149
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Feminist Theory
Creativity in Large-Scale Contexts
Guiding Creative Engagement and Exploration cover to
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A new model for smarter creativity

Innovators and creators work in cultural and environmental contexts

that shape their work. These contexts are large scale, filled with
multitudes of elements and possibilities. Creativity in Large-Scale
Contexts, by Yale Professor Jonathan Feinstein, introduces a
groundbreaking new network model to describe how successful
creativity is generated in such contexts. The book will help groups and
organizations be more productive and efficient in their innovation
work.

Feinstein argues that in large-scale contexts creativity happens most

efficiently when it is actively "guided." Guiding creativity involves
understanding and navigating the creative context, imagining new
ways to use it, identifying puzzles and opportunities, and spanning
these to create novel connections. With thoughtful guidance, creators
and creative teams can find their way through the thicket of
possibilities faster, smarter, and with less waste. Feinstein describes
two forms of guidance — guiding conceptions and guiding principles
— and shows how they work together to generate creativity.

Empirically grounded, this book will be essential for teaching and

managing creativity and innovation and will open new avenues for
future intellectual growth in the field.

Jonathan Feinstein is John G. Searle Professor of Economics and OCTOBER 384 pages, 5 tables, 21
Management at Yale School of Management. figures, 4 illustrations

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PSYCHOLOGY / Creative Ability
Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Natural
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In this incisive new work, Eli Friedlander demonstrates that Walter

Benjamin's entire corpus, from early to late, comprises a rigorous and
sustained philosophical questioning of how human beings belong to
nature.

Across seemingly heterogeneous writings, Friedlander argues,

Benjamin consistently explores what the natural in the human comes
to, that is, how nature is transformed, actualized, redeemed, and
overcome in human existence. The book progresses gradually from
Benjamin's philosophically fundamental writings on language and
nature to his Goethean empiricism, from the presentation of ideas to
the primal history of the Paris arcades. Friedlander's careful analysis
brings out how the idea of natural history inflects Benjamin's
conception of the work of art and its critique, his diagnosis of the
mythical violence of the legal order, his account of the body and of
action, of material culture and technology, as well as his unique vision
of historical materialism.

Featuring revelatory new readings of Benjamin's major works that

differ, sometimes dramatically, from prevailing interpretations, this
book reveals the internal coherence and philosophical force of
Benjamin's thought.

Eli Friedlander is Laura Schwarz-Kipp Professor of Modern Philosophy JANUARY 344 pages,
at Tel Aviv University. His previous books include Walter Benjamin: A
Philosophical Portrait (2015). Paper 9781503637702
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Aesthetic Action
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Florian Klinger gives readers a basic action-theoretical account of the

aesthetic. While normal action fulfills a determinate concept, Klinger
argues, aesthetic action performs an indeterminacy by suspending the
action's conceptual resolution. The book examines indeterminacy in
such instances as a walk that is at once leisurely and purposeful, a
sound piece that is at once joyous and mournful and mechanical, or, a
sculpture that at once draws one in and shuts one out. Aesthetic action
presents itself as an unsettling of ourselves, our ways, our very sense
of who we are. As performers of such action, we don't recognize one
another as bearers of a shared human form as we normally would, but
find ourselves tasked anew with figuring out what sharing a form
would mean.

In conversation with philosophers such as Kant, Hegel, Wittgenstein,

and Anscombe; political thinkers such as Marx and Lorde; and
contemporary interlocutors such as Michael Thompson, Sebastian
Rödl, and Thomas Khurana, Klinger's book makes a case for a
conception of the human form that systematically includes the
aesthetic: an actualization of the form that is indeterminate and
nevertheless rational. The book gives the project of Western
philosophical aesthetics a long-overdue formulation for our present
that aims to do justice to contemporary aesthetic production as it
actually exists.

Florian Klinger is Associate Professor in Germanic Studies and the JANUARY 386 pages,
College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Theory of Form: 6x9
Gerhard Richter and Art in the Pragmatist Age (2022). Cloth 9781503636972
eBook 9781503637627
PHILOSOPHY Aesthetics
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Strategy in the Digital Age
Mastering Digital Transformation
MICHAEL LENOX

Digital transformation is an ongoing process of the marketplace and

one that requires continual strategic planning, reflection, and action.
Organizations must constantly reconsider their digital transformation
strategies in order to leverage new technologies and access to new data
sets, as new competitors continue to emerge. In this environment,
successful managers will constantly ask: how are you going to
competitively position your organization in a digitally transforming
marketplace? How will you create value for your business in new
ways, including changing your value proposition by leveraging data
and adopting new business models available in a digital world? How
will you capture value in a world where the basis for competitive
advantage is shifting, especially when marked by platforms and
network externalities? And what capabilities do you need to secure
this, and how will you develop them?

Timely in its analysis, the book covers major topics such as big tech,
data analytics, artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrency,
autonomy, cybersecurity, data privacy, and antitrust. Michael Lenox
delivers an insightful volume that offers a foundational understanding
of this dynamic environment, and an action plan for those seeking a
path to digital strategy implementation for their organization.

Michael Lenox is the Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business JUNE 184 pages, 25 figures
Administration at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.
He is the coauthor of The Decarbonization Imperative: Transforming the Cloth 9781503635197
Global Economy by 2050 (Stanford, 2021) and Can Business Save the eBook 9781503635760
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Strategic
Earth: Innovating Our Way to Sustainability (Stanford, 2018).
Planning

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Moments of Capital
World Theory, World Literature
ELI JELLY-SCHAPIRO

Undertaken at the interface of critical theory and world literature,

Moments of Capital sets out to grasp the unity and heterogeneity of
global capital in the postcolonial present. Eli Jelly-Schapiro argues that
global capital is composed of three synchronous moments: primitive
accumulation, expanded reproduction, and the "synthetic
dispossession" facilitated by financialization and privatization. These
moments correspond to distinct economic and political forms, and
distinct strands of theory and fiction.

Moments of Capital integrates various intellectual traditions to reveal

the concurrent interrelation of the three moments of capital. The book's
literary readings, meanwhile, make vivid the uneven texture and
experience of capitalist modernity at large. Analyzing formally and
thematically diverse novels—works by Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Marlon
James, Jennifer Egan, Eugene Lim, Raphael Chirbes, Neel Mukherjee,
Rachel Kushner, and others—Jelly-Schapiro evinces the different
patterns of feeling and consciousness that register, and hypothesize a
way beyond, the contradictions of capital.

This book develops a new conceptual key for the mapping of

contemporary theory, world literature, and global capital itself.

Eli Jelly-Schapiro is Associate Professor of English at the University of MARCH 264 pages
South Carolina. He is the author of Security and Terror: American
Culture and the Long History of Colonial Modernity (2018). Paper 9781503635432
Cloth 9781503634718
eBook 9781503635449
LITERARY CRITICISM General

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Writing Our Extinction
Anthropocene Fiction and Vertical Science
PATRICK WHITMARSH

Mid-twentieth-century developments in science and technology

produced new understandings and images of the planet that circulated
the globe, giving rise to a modern ecological consciousness; but they
also contributed to accelerating crises in the global environment,
including climate change, pollution, and waste. In this new work,
Patrick Whitmarsh analyzes postwar narrative fictions that describe,
depict, or express the earth from above (the aerial) and below (the
subterranean), revealing the ways that literature has engaged this
history of vertical science and linked it to increasing environmental
precarity, up to and including the extinction of humankind.

Whitmarsh examines works by writers such as Don DeLillo, Karen Tei

Yamashita, Reza Negarestani, and Colson Whitehead alongside
postwar scientific programs including the Space Race, atmospheric and
underground nuclear testing, and geological expeditions such as
Project Mohole (which attempted to drill to the earth's mantle).
Anthropocene fiction highlights the interconnections between human
behavior and planetary change. These fictions situate industrial history
within the much longer narrative of geological time and reframe
scientific progress as a story through which humankind writes itself
out of existence.

Patrick Whitmarsh is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental APRIL 224 pages,

Humanities at Wofford College. He has published essays
in MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, JML: The Journal of Modern Literature, Paper 9781503635548
and SFS: Science Fiction Studies. Cloth 9781503633001
eBook 9781503635555
LITERARY CRITICISM Semiotics &
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Involuntary Consent
The Illusion of Choice in Japan’s Adult Video Industry
AKIKO TAKEYAMA

The popularity of pornography is predicated on the idea those

participating have given their consent. That is what allows the porn
industry to dominate the media economy today, generating staggering
sums of money. Looking at behind-the-scenes negotiations and abuses
in Japan's massive adult video industry, Akiko Takeyama challenges
this pervasive notion with the idea of "involuntary consent." This
phenomenon, she argues, is ubiquitous, not only in the porn industry,
but in our everyday lives, and yet modern society, built on beliefs of
autonomy, free choice, and equality, renders it all but invisible.

In this ethnography of Japan's porn industry, Akiko Takeyama

investigates the paradox of involuntary consent in modern liberal
democratic societies. Taking consent as her starting point, Takeyama
illustrates the nuances of Japan's pornographic and sex work industries
and the legal structures, or lack thereof, that govern them.

Akiko Takeyama is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies JUNE 240 pages,
and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of
Kansas. She is the author of Staged Seduction (SUP, 2016), which was Paper 9781503633780
shortlisted for the 2017 Michelle Rosaldo Book Prize. Cloth 9781503628762
eBook 9781503633797
SOCIAL SCIENCE Gender Studies

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City of Sediments
A History of Seoul in the Age of Colonialism
SE-MI OH

Once the capital of the five-hundred-year Chosŏn dynasty (1392–

1897) and the Taehan Empire (1897–1910), the city of Seoul posed
unique challenges to urban reform and modernization under Japanese
colonial rule in the early twentieth century, constrained by the
labyrinthian built environment of the old Korean capital. Colonial
authorities attempted to employ a strategy of "erasure"—monumental
Japanese architecture was, for instance, superimposed upon existing
palace structures—to articulate to colonized Korean subjects the
transition from the pre-modern to the modern, and the naturalization of
colonial rule as inevitable historical change.

Drawing from and analyzing a wide range of materials, from

architecture and photography to print media and sound recordings,
City of Sediments shows how Seoul became a site to articulate a new
mode of time—modernity—that defined the place of the colonized in
accordance with the progression of history, and how the underbelly of
the city, latent places of darkness filled with chatters of the alleyway,
challenged this visual language of power. To do so, Se-Mi Oh builds
an inventive new model of history where discrete events do not unfold
one after the other, but rather one in which histories layer atop each
other like sediment, allowing a new map of colonial Seoul to emerge, a
map where the material traces of the city are overlapping, with vibrant
residues of earlier times defiantly visible among the superimposed
signs of modernity and colonial domination.

Se-Mi Oh is Assistant Professor of Modern Korean History at the APRIL 272 pages, 55 illustrations
University of Michigan.
Paper 9781503635524
Cloth 9781503634800
eBook 9781503635531
HISTORY Asia / Korea

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