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Philosophy at the Movies

Edited by Richard Kearney, Boston College, USA & Murray Littlejohn, University of New Brunswick, Canada According to Stanley Cavell, film was a place where 1930s and 1940s America did its thinking, a tradition that was taken up and enriched throughout world cinema. Can film indeed think? That is, can film do the work of philosophy? Thinking Film: Philosophy at the Movies argues that it can� Bringing together an array of thinkers from across the analytic and continental traditions, this volume features work by established philosophers of film, such as Cavell and Deleuze, and contemporary thinkers, including Stephen Mulhall, Vivian Sobchack, Sandra Laugier, and Stephanie Rumpza�

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 480 pages PB 9781350113466 • £28�99 / $34�95 • HB 9781350113459 • £90�00 / $100�00 ePub 9781350113473 • £26�09 / $37�08 ePdf 9781350113442 • £26�09 / $37�08 Bloomsbury Academic World English

Architecture After Deleuze and Guattari

Chris L. Smith, University of Sydney, Australia This study illuminates the complex interplay between philosophy and architecture through Deleuze and Guattari’s core philosophical concepts in architecture� Their wide-ranging impact on 20th- and 21st-century architecture is presented in 16 chapters which each focus on a core Deleuzo-Guattarian philosophical concept and one key work of architecture which evokes it. Challenging the idea that a concept or theory defines, then produces the physical work and not vice versa, Chris Smith positions the relationship between Deleuze and Guattari’s practical philosophy and the field of architecture as one that is mutually substantiating and constitutive�

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 256 pages HB 9781350168497 • £85�00 / $115�00 ePub 9781350168510 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9781350168503 • £76�50 / $105�78 Series: Deleuze and Guattari Encounters • Bloomsbury Academic

Gaga Aesthetics

Art, Fashion, Popular Culture, and the Up-Ending of Tradition

Adam Geczy, University of Sydney, Australia & Vicki Karaminas, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand Taking Adorno and Horkheimer’s ‘The Culture Industry’ as a crucial departure point, this book explores the dialectic of high and low that forms the foundation of Adornian aesthetics as well as those in his wake� In the tradition of philosophical aesthetics that Adorno began with Lukács, it considers the ever-urgent notion that high culture has become deeply enmeshed with popular culture� This is “Gaga Aesthetics”, aesthetics that are no longer confined to fine art, but can be found in phenomena such as fashion and music video�

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 224 pages PB 9781350272385 • £28�99 / $39�95 Previously published in HB 9781350102699 ePub 9781350102712 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9781350102705 • £76�50 / $105�78 Series: Aesthetics and Contemporary Art • Bloomsbury Academic Appreciating Architecture As An Art

Edward Winters, University of Westminster, UK Identifying the problems with the rival values architecture enjoys, Winters reconciles intrinsic value, as a fine art, with extrinsic value, as shelter, security and comfort, to argue why architecture is a fine art. Without collapsing into the modernist conception of Functionalism, he draws on the Apollonian and the Dionysian to resolve the apparent conflict: the former identified as requiring contemplative, detached reflection, the latter an engaged, embodied entanglement with the festive mood inspired by the immediate situation� Architecture, Winters claims, is to be regarded as functional; but this functionality is subsumed under the intrinsic aesthetic value of living well�

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 240 pages • 25 bw illus PB 9781350211001 • £19�99 / $26�95 • HB 9781350210998 • £65�00 / $90�00 ePub 9781350211025 • £17�99 / $24�72 ePdf 9781350211018 • £17�99 / $24�72 Series: Bloomsbury Aesthetics • Bloomsbury Academic

Andean Aesthetics and Anticolonial Resistance

A Cosmology of Unsociable Bodies

Omar Rivera, Texas A&M University, USA From pre-Columbian Inca stone architecture to 21st-century Andean photography and painting, Omar Rivera uncovers a lineage of conceptions of cosmologies as they have been expressed aesthetically in Andean philosophical traditions� In doing so, he manifests a conception of the cosmos that is organized according to elemental orders and that underlies social forms� Connecting pre-Columbian cosmologies with contemporary thinkers such as María Lugones, Linda Martín Alcoff and Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Rivera's original approach introduces us to the living, evolving and aesthetic alternatives to coloniality of power and of knowledge, overhauling our understanding of decolonial theory�

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 248 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350273221 • £28�99 / $39�95 Previously published in HB 9781350173750 ePub 9781350173774 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9781350173767 • £76�50 / $105�78 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies • Bloomsbury Academic