Written by one of the founders of modern political philosophy, Thomas Hobbes, during the English civil war, Leviathan is an influential work of nonfiction. Regarded as one of the earliest examples of the social contract theory, Leviathan has both historical and philosophical importance. Social contract theory prioritizes the state over the individual, claiming that individuals have consented to the surrender of some of their freedoms by participating...

"24 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Europe is as divided as ever. The passengers of the low-budget airlines go east for stag parties, and they go West for work; but the East stays East, and West stays West. Caricatures abound - the Polish plumber in the tabloids, the New Cold War in the broadsheets and the endless search for 'the new Berlin' for hipsters. Against the stereotypes, Agata Pyzik peers behind the curtain to take a look at the...

It is remarkably appropriate that this work on aesthetics should have been written by George Santayana, who is probably the most brilliant philosophic writer and the philosopher with the strongest sense of beauty since Plato. It is not a dry metaphysical treatise, as works on aesthetics so often are, but is itself a fascinating document: as much a revelation of the beauty of language as of the concept of beauty. This unabridged reproduction of the...

Timothy Morton acuñó el término "hiperobjeto" para referirse a las cosas que se distribuyen masivamente en tiempo y espacio en relación con los humanos. Un agujero negro, un campo petrolero, la biosfera o el sistema solar, todos los materiales nucleares de la Tierra, son hiperobjetos. Un hiperobjeto podría ser un producto de manufactura humana de larga duración, como el poliestireno, o también la suma de toda la maquinaria chirriante del capitalismo....

The death of Pedro Calderon de la Barca near the end of the 17th century marked the end of Spain's Golden Age of literary and artistic excellence. Pedro Calderon de la Barca immense popularity and mastery of Spanish drama has earned him notoriety as the national dramatist of Spain. Although he came from a family of lower nobility, his theater is often associated with the royal court, as he presented many plays in the palace of Philip IV. His best...

¿Puede el arte ser utilizado para desplegar la crítica social? Esta es la pregunta que guía las reflexiones del presente libro, dirigido a personas interesadas en la estética, la filosofía o las ciencias sociales. En la primera parte de esta obra se explican sus hitos más destacados, entre los que se encuentran K. Marx, S. Kracauer, W. Benjamin, M. Horkheimer, T. W. Adorno y J. Habermas. En la segunda parte, centrada en la formulación de la...

We are, told our lives are too fast, subject to the accelerating demand that we innovate more, work more, enjoy more, produce more, and consume more. That's one familiar story. Another, stranger, story is told here: of those who think we haven't gone fast enough. Instead of rejecting the increasing tempo of capitalist production, they argue that we should embrace and accelerate it. Rejecting this conclusion, /Malign Velocities/ tracks this 'accelerationism'...

Este libro ofrece una teoría de la estética poshumana en los paisajes de información mediados por procesos computacionales. A partir de innovaciones científicas, tecnológicas y conceptuales, se investiga la transformación que ha tenido la estética hacia una visión poshumana en la que se vincula lo humano y lo no humano a través de la relación con otros animales, plantas y sistemas maquinicos. En estética poshumana, se reconocen otros sistemas...

Tras un primer capítulo en el que plantea los problemas fundamentales del arte contemporáneo teniendo en cuenta las reflexiones de Benjamin, Adorno y Greenberg, así como los cambios habidos en la industria de la cultura y la comunicación, en la tecnología y el mercado, Di Giacomo traza las líneas fundamentales del arte contemporáneo a partir del desarrollo de la vanguardia, el cubismo, las obras de Braque y Picasso, la ruptura radical que supone...

"The Neoliberal Undead describes the frightening world of class restoration, neoliberal austerity, ecological meltdown, and neo-imperialism a disaster capitalism that breeds mutant ideological justifications for itself and the inevitability of disorder, poverty and suffering. What role does culture play in this world of markets and how do new contestatory forms enable a leftist solidarity that can move cultural radicalism beyond the postmodern obsession...