Goldsmith's press gb (101 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: New. 14 powerful stories spanning post-apocalyptic futures to the paleolithic past, exploring female resilience across speculative and realist landscapesIn "Maybe the Birds," A.J. Ashworth weaves together narratives that are both deeply human and imaginatively bold, each story examining what it means to be alive when the world is no longer as it used to be.The collection showcases Ashworth's range, featuring a young female vampire who uses her knowledge of mirrors to save her village from her creator, and a woman grappling with the unsettling feeling that the robins she has always cherished are no longer her allies. These narratives, largely speculative in nature, are grounded in universal themes of love and loss, family bonds and betrayals, and the profound moments of disconnection and connection that define our closest relationships.Featuring "Leather" from Best British Short Stories, this is Ashworth's second short story collection. Her work has garnered critical acclaim for its unique blend of speculative elements with deeply realistic emotional landscapes, creating stories that feel both otherworldly and intimately familiar.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism, Françoise Vergès examines the racial and gendered politics of wasting lands, bodies, and resources and the organized deprivation of clean water, shelter, and access to health services-in other words, the structural denial, along racial lines, of vital needs. Through 38 short sections, she looks at the social relations that have made cleaning into drudgery and into a racialized, gendered, poorly paid job that is nevertheless necessary for any society to function. She concludes with the proposition of a feminist, decolonial, antiracist, anti-patriarchal, and anti-capitalist politics of cleaning. Or, simply put, of "decolonial cleaning."To Vergès, the structural denial of the elemental needs of women of color (sanitary pads, access to water, and privacy for basic washing), and why these needs are considered insignificant and trivial, shows how racism and class war are gendered. By examining the banal, the trivial, and the elemental, the author addresses cleaning as a necessity rather than the maintenance of a consumerist lifestyle, a condition of basic care of the body and the mind that is considered with indifference by racial capitalism, white environmentalism, and even, too often, by humanitarian organizations. She argues that by building "life-affirming institutions," as Ruth Wilson Gilmore advocates, struggles against the whitening of cleaning create sites of freedom. "Decolonial cleaning" imagines cleaning as taking care of land, humans, plants, animals, and rivers, not seeking to discipline them or transform them into commodities or objects of conservation but cleaning as a practice dedicated to sustaining the living world.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. An alternative view of the North West of England that delves into its stranger past. I Hate the Lake District offers a different vision of the rural environment from those found in much contemporary nature writing. Based on the author's trips around North West England, the book engages with nuclear power and nuclear war, slavery, imperialism, ghosts, love, God, cockroaches, and the sheer violence and contingency of "nature" itself-of which the human presence is merely a part. Each chapter starts with an account of a visit to a place in this remote part of England, the deep north, but digresses and wanders through multifarious themes and subjects. Among the sites Gere visits are the defunct nuclear power station at Sellafield, home of all British nuclear waste; Lake Coniston, where Donald Campbell died trying to break the water speed record; Hadrian's Wall, furthermost reach of the Roman Empire; the mysterious and deathly Morecambe Bay; sites of slavery in the North West; places where UFOs have been sighted, avant-garde artists created work, and Islamic terrorists trained; shantytowns where the navvies who built the railways lived with their families; and even the remains of Blobbyland in Morecambe. In I Hate the Lake District, Gere challenges the bourgeois pastoralism of popular nature writing and reveals the landscape of North West England as profoundly unnatural and strange. …

Paperback. Condizione: New. A near-future real-life society transitions to a post-capitalist, post-climate change reality.The Department Of What It (Really) Means To Be Human is a thoughtful, optimistic scifi novel set in a near-future Aotearoa New Zealand where an investigator navigates a newly post-capitalist world in their search for a missing artist.When the world changed, Emerald Hutson closed the door on their old life. Now they're a freelance investigator for the Grants and Stipends Office, augmenting basic income with cases that are both simple and easily resolved. Until they're assigned to track down Gen Ecks, a notable installation artist who's fallen off the map.When Em finds Gen, she's under the influence of Moneta, a drug designed to let users experience memories as if they were real. Em's inclined to declare their case closed and leave Gen to it. Most drug use has been decriminalized, and while Gen's art might be suffering, there's no reason to intervene if Gen wants to use Moneta. But the drug isn't working as expected. Gen's not just going down memory lane, she's completely lost, unable to tell past from present. And she may not be the only one.To help Gen and expose Moneta's dangers, Em cracks open old doors, beginning with an old colleague who's been keeping an unsettlingly close eye on them. And in the process Em learns that while they may have been happy to take advantage of the world's shift to start anew, neither they nor the world can be truly changed until they face the past head on.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. 14 powerful stories spanning post-apocalyptic futures to the paleolithic past, exploring female resilience across speculative and realist landscapesIn "Maybe the Birds," A.J. Ashworth weaves together narratives that are both deeply human and imaginatively bold, each story examining what it means to be alive when the world is no longer as it used to be.The collection showcases Ashworth's range, featuring a young female vampire who uses her knowledge of mirrors to save her village from her creator, and a woman grappling with the unsettling feeling that the robins she has always cherished are no longer her allies. These narratives, largely speculative in nature, are grounded in universal themes of love and loss, family bonds and betrayals, and the profound moments of disconnection and connection that define our closest relationships.Featuring "Leather" from Best British Short Stories, this is Ashworth's second short story collection. Her work has garnered critical acclaim for its unique blend of speculative elements with deeply realistic emotional landscapes, creating stories that feel both otherworldly and intimately familiar.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Britain, 2057. Drought has left a trail of inexplicable parch marks around the long-dry riverbed of an ancient massacre site. TV archaeologist Eva Sinclair, struggling to evade violence in a future York riven by political tension and protest, seeks to understand what links these fern-like patterns with a Bronze Age community that also once faced the ravages of climate change. Even more concerningly - why are these same patterns appearing in the form of rashes on her skin, and those of others involved in the excavation?Eva Sinclair is struggling after an extramarital affair leaves her broke and dealing with a festering media scandal. She jumps at the chance to head to York to join an excavation of a unique Bronze Age site in the seceded North of England. Of particular interest are the highly atypical and mysterious parch marks in the shape of coiling ferns that lie alongside a harrowing, ancient mass grave. Eva is fascinated, but with protests becoming ever more violent in the wake of drought and water rationing, she finds loyalty to her colleagues conflicting with personal ambition.1,300 BC. Ray is known in her village to have the Sense - the ability to feel the presence of the Serpent of the River, the Woman of the Spring, the Boar and all the other spirits that allow her and her community to survive and thrive. Plummeting temperatures and a series of failed harvests, however, have left them flailing. When a powerful tribe from the south arrives to seek hospitality and the healing powers of the Spring, Ray is left feeling she would be better off blessed with the ability to control the more emotionally incontinent members of her clan.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism, Françoise Vergès examines the racial and gendered politics of wasting lands, bodies, and resources and the organized deprivation of clean water, shelter, and access to health services-in other words, the structural denial, along racial lines, of vital needs. Through 38 short sections, she looks at the social relations that have made cleaning into drudgery and into a racialized, gendered, poorly paid job that is nevertheless necessary for any society to function. She concludes with the proposition of a feminist, decolonial, antiracist, anti-patriarchal, and anti-capitalist politics of cleaning. Or, simply put, of "decolonial cleaning."To Vergès, the structural denial of the elemental needs of women of color (sanitary pads, access to water, and privacy for basic washing), and why these needs are considered insignificant and trivial, shows how racism and class war are gendered. By examining the banal, the trivial, and the elemental, the author addresses cleaning as a necessity rather than the maintenance of a consumerist lifestyle, a condition of basic care of the body and the mind that is considered with indifference by racial capitalism, white environmentalism, and even, too often, by humanitarian organizations. She argues that by building "life-affirming institutions," as Ruth Wilson Gilmore advocates, struggles against the whitening of cleaning create sites of freedom. "Decolonial cleaning" imagines cleaning as taking care of land, humans, plants, animals, and rivers, not seeking to discipline them or transform them into commodities or objects of conservation but cleaning as a practice dedicated to sustaining the living world.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In an epic novel set on the North Pennine Moors, Elizabeth has abandoned avalanche science to restore desolate peatlands. She treks in the footsteps of Isabel who, five centuries earlier, herds her cattle to remote summering grounds.Both are reeling from the overwhelming crises of their day. In 1548, Isabel and her father, together with the priest in this poorest of parishes, grapple with the chaos of the protestant reformation. Today, a grieving Elizabeth fights to save an invaluable ecosystem, one that is threatened by wilful fire-raising and arson.The entwined stories are told through multiple voices creating a rich portrait of England's most remote landscape. At its heart, this deeply moving novel interrogates how society confronts crisis whether through science, faith or superstitIon.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In an epic novel set on the North Pennine Moors, Elizabeth has abandoned avalanche science to restore desolate peatlands. She treks in the footsteps of Isabel who, five centuries earlier, herds her cattle to remote summering grounds.Both are reeling from the overwhelming crises of their day. In 1548, Isabel and her father, together with the priest in this poorest of parishes, grapple with the chaos of the protestant reformation. Today, a grieving Elizabeth fights to save an invaluable ecosystem, one that is threatened by wilful fire-raising and arson.The entwined stories are told through multiple voices creating a rich portrait of England's most remote landscape. At its heart, this deeply moving novel interrogates how society confronts crisis whether through science, faith or superstitIon.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A genre-bending meditation on sickness, spirituality, creativity, and the redemptive powers of writing. Notes Made While Falling is both a genre-bending memoir and a cultural study of traumatized and sickened selves in fiction and film. It offers a fresh, visceral, and idiosyncratic perspective on creativity, spirituality, illness, and the limits of fiction itself. At its heart is a story of a disastrously traumatic childbirth, its long aftermath, and the out-of-time roots of both trauma and creativity in an extraordinary childhood. Moving from fairgrounds to Agatha Christie, from literary festivals to neuroscience and the Bible, from Chernobyl to King Lear, Ashworth takes us on a fantastic journey through familiar landscapes transformed through unexpected encounters and comic combinations. The everyday provides the ground for the macabre and the absurd, as the narration twists and stretches time. Hovering on the edge of madness, writing, it seems, might keep us sane-or might just allow us to keep on living. In Notes Made While Falling, Ashworth calls for a redefinition of the creative work of thinking, writing, teaching, and being, and she underlines the necessity of a fearlessly compassionate and empathic attention to vulnerability and fragility.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A group of Victorian women, shipwrecked on an island in a parallel universe, fight ffor change.Thirty "surplus" mothers from asylums, workhouses, and the streets of Victorian England are shipwrecked on an island in an alternate universe. To survive, they must create a new society amid the lethal black sands and mysterious beasts. How will they shake off the patriarchal chains that bound them and raise their children to be free? How will Betty, who longs to be back under the guidance of her master, survive, as the community evolves? And who is watching them? Told by multiple narrators, the novel imagines an alternative history: one free of patriarchy, which affords the characters a chance to redefine their gender roles and those of their children, whilst speculating on the conditions necessary for them to evolve.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A coming to terms with marriage and career, the life-long impact of a father's alcoholism, and an aunt's insistent example to live an unroofed life."I had gone to the common under the vague impression that I wished to recapture something of a life I no longer possessed."Following his aunt Abilene's death, Robert travels from Manchester to Hampshire to settle her estate. Instead of fulfilling his executor duties, he impulsively builds a hut on nearby Ludshott Common and stays for seven days. This introspective novel explores his week in nature as he grapples with loss, disillusionment, marriage, career, parenthood, white male privilege, and his father's alcoholism.Blending fiction, auto-fiction, and place writing, Common is a novel about solitude, connection, and the fragile peace we attempt to make with ourselves-a portrait ofrenewal, reckoning, and the frequently failed attempt to reconnect with both past legacies and present realities.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Women have always worked in technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine. Sometimes they made important discoveries and breakthroughs; sometimes theysimply managed to exist and persist despite endless obstacles and a criminal lack of acknowledgment. Carefully researched, thoughtful, pitch perfect and precise, these poems about historical women scientists are hilarious and heart-breaking at the same time. There are women here whose names you may know (Rachel Carson, Mae Jemison, Hedy Lamarr, Ada Lovelace, Beatrix Potter) and others you probably don't (TapputiBelatekallim, June Bacon-Bercey, Eugenie Clark, Beatrice Medicine, Gladys West). Randall has a fine-tuned knack for metaphor and plain language, and her poetry unpicks injustice alongside complex scientific ideas. If you've seen Randall's poems in Scientific American, Analog, or Asimov's Science Fiction, you may already have been drawn into these extraordinary stories. Illustrated with portraits by NASA artist Kristin DiVona, these poems will resonate with scientists, feminists, thinkers, learners, philosophers, poets, and truth-seekers young, old and everywhere in between. DiVona, Kristin (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Shortlisted for Best Collection in The British Science Fiction Association Awards The lives of people (mostly women) who help to produce science or who are affected by it. The stories in Schrödinger's Wife (and Other Possibilities) travel through laboratories, observatories, rockets, hotel rooms, hospitals, out to the Antarctic and into outer space, following the trails of women scientists, technicians, patients, doctors, and spouses in their encounters with some of the most extraordinary aspects of modern science.In these science-inspired tales the nuclear physicist Lise Meitner discovers the secrets of nuclear fission while fleeing from the Nazis. An employee in the underground laboratory CERN refuses to have her own photo taken. The biologist Margaret Bastock must figure our the impact of genes on behavior while coping with post-war expectations of women's own behavior. Scientists from East and West Germany stationed at opposite sides of Antarctica experience their own fall of the Berlin Wall. The elusive physicist Bruno Pontecorvo theorizes about an equally elusive particle. Schrödinger's wife Anny uses his theory to get her revenge on her philandering husband. A scientific theory worries about being discovered by a woman, and a resident in a special institution extrapolates the history of the universe from a piece of toast. In this, her second collection of short stories, Pippa Goldschmidt explores the lives of real and imaginary scientists, focusing on the human emotions and social connections behind the discoveries. …

Paperback. Condizione: New. A coming to terms with marriage and career, the life-long impact of a father's alcoholism, and an aunt's insistent example to live an unroofed life."I had gone to the common under the vague impression that I wished to recapture something of a life I no longer possessed."Following his aunt Abilene's death, Robert travels from Manchester to Hampshire to settle her estate. Instead of fulfilling his executor duties, he impulsively builds a hut on nearby Ludshott Common and stays for seven days. This introspective novel explores his week in nature as he grapples with loss, disillusionment, marriage, career, parenthood, white male privilege, and his father's alcoholism.Blending fiction, auto-fiction, and place writing, Common is a novel about solitude, connection, and the fragile peace we attempt to make with ourselves-a portrait ofrenewal, reckoning, and the frequently failed attempt to reconnect with both past legacies and present realities.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Four billion women on this planet. And we still have to argue for equality.Yes, there is progress. But inequality and opposition persist - in the law, in the economy, in our bodies, in our daily lives. Equality isn't complicated - it's critical. It's the fundamental human right to go where we want, be who we want, wear what we want, love who we want.The world is failing women and girls. Everywhere. We're in a deeply entrenched system of oppression that could take generations to dismantle. Millions of girls out of school. Women's bodies legislated without their consent. Less pay, more unpaid labor, a fraction of seats at every table that matters. What's it going to take to shatter this status quo?Feminist Firestarter is a call to arms - and to community. A small book with big plans for those who are fed up. For those who light things up. Stand together, fuel the resistance, and turn the oppression of women into ash-one Firestarter at a time. This fight isn't over. It's just getting started.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Marriage is a commitmentthat involves our bodies, our minds, our money, our families, and our friends.It is tied in inextricable ways to who we think we are and how we relate toothers. It has also been one of the most controversial subjects in feministdebate. Taking that history into account, A Feminist Guide to Marriage confrontssomething that many feminists still do not want to admit, which is that marriagemust be considered and analyzed for social justice to succeed. Many well-meaning people decide to marry, andthe future of all our intimate relationships-whether we marry or not-depends onappraising this thorny, contradictory institution more accurately.Written by a scholar ofpopular culture who has been teaching for 25 years and married to a man for 15,A Feminist Guide to Marriage shares stories from real people (includingthe author) about everything from dating to divorce. In it, you will learn howto live your desires ethically, what a just marriage looks like, what youshould ask of yourselves, and what you should ask of your partner(s.) Withchapters on sex, money, children, and monogamy, among others, this book willhelp you to use feminist ideals to live, think, act, and love.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A speculative spatial theory for mapping the colonial afterlives of extraction. Planetary Portals investigates the colonial afterlives of extraction, travelling from the Rhodes estate in East London to the Kimberley diamond fields of southern Africa. Guided by an ethics of environmental restitution and repair, the book examines colonialism as an ongoing planetary condition that radically transforms material states of being. The idea of the "portal" is deployed as a speculative, archival and creative method for mapping spatial and temporal patterns of colonial environments, while troubling these sightlines to glimpse at alternative planetary futures. Through "speculative nonfictions" Planetary Portals presents a new theory for apprehending the environmental harms of the colonial present while tacitly reimagining the structures of environmental life within the long shadows of continuous extraction.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Marriage is a commitmentthat involves our bodies, our minds, our money, our families, and our friends.It is tied in inextricable ways to who we think we are and how we relate toothers. It has also been one of the most controversial subjects in feministdebate. Taking that history into account, A Feminist Guide to Marriage confrontssomething that many feminists still do not want to admit, which is that marriagemust be considered and analyzed for social justice to succeed. Many well-meaning people decide to marry, andthe future of all our intimate relationships-whether we marry or not-depends onappraising this thorny, contradictory institution more accurately.Written by a scholar ofpopular culture who has been teaching for 25 years and married to a man for 15,A Feminist Guide to Marriage shares stories from real people (includingthe author) about everything from dating to divorce. In it, you will learn howto live your desires ethically, what a just marriage looks like, what youshould ask of yourselves, and what you should ask of your partner(s.) Withchapters on sex, money, children, and monogamy, among others, this book willhelp you to use feminist ideals to live, think, act, and love.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. A sophisticated critical take on contemporary game culture that reconsiders the boundaries between gamers and games.This book is not about the future of video games. It is not an attempt to predict the moods of the market, the changing profile of gamers, the benevolence or malevolence of the medium. This book is about those predictions. It is about the ways in which the past, present, and future notions of games are narrated and negotiated by a small group of producers, journalists, and gamers, and about how invested these narrators are in telling the story of tomorrow.This new title from Goldsmiths Press by Paolo Ruffino suggests the story could be told another way. Considering game culture, from the gamification of self-improvement to GamerGate's sexism and violence, Ruffino lays out an alternative, creative mode of thinking about the medium: a sophisticated critical take that blurs the distinctions among studying, playing, making, and living with video games. Offering a series of stories that provide alternative narratives of digital gaming, Ruffino aims to encourage all of us who study and play (with) games to raise ethical questions, both about our own role in shaping the objects of research, and about our involvement in the discourses we produce as gamers and scholars. For researchers and students seeking a fresh approach to game studies, and for anyone with an interest in breaking open the current locked-box discourse, Future Gaming offers a radical lens with which to view the future.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Science fiction as a vital bridge between technoscience and culture, an early warning system, a method for imagining differently. In the new millennium, science fiction has moved from the margins to the mainstream. At the same time, it has undergone massive transformations. No longer can it be derided as indigestible technobabble or escapist trash or a white man's playground-not that it ever really was. Sf is rich and diverse, serious, and fun. A vital bridge between technoscience and culture, it is an early warning system, a method for imagining differently, and a way of experiencing our increasingly science-fictional world. It is the vernacular of the 21st century. This Is Not A Science Fiction Textbook brings together leading sf scholars, including some of the most exciting new critical voices, to introduce the genre for the general reader. Its first part outlines some key ideas used to think about sf, such as Estrangement, Extrapolation, and Alterity. Its second part maps some of the genre's global history, from the Enlightenment and European colonialism to Indigenous and African Futurisms. Its third part surveys sf at the turn of the 2020s, organised by concepts, movements and new academic disciplines, from Afrofuturism and Animal Studies to Queer Theory and the Weird-and each chapter, whether it is on Climate Fiction or Neurodiversity, is accompanied by an introduction to a major contemporary novel and film.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A rich collection of essays tracing the relationship between art and sound.In the 1970s David Toop became preoccupied with the possibility that music was no longer bounded by formalities of audience: the clapping, the booing, the short attention span, the demand for instant gratification. Considering sound and listening as foundational practices in themselves leads music into a thrilling new territory: stretched time, wilderness, video monitors, singing sculptures, weather, meditations, vibration and the interior resonance of objects, interspecies communications, instructional texts, silent actions, and performance art.Toop sought to document the originality and unfamiliarity of this work from his perspective as a practitioner and writer. The challenge was to do so without being drawn back into the domain of music while still acknowledging the vitality and hybridity of twentieth-century musics as they moved toward art galleries, museums, and site-specificity. Toop focused on practitioners, whose stories are as compelling as the theoretical and abstract implications of their works.Inflamed Invisible collects more than four decades of David Toop's essays, reviews, interviews, and experimental texts, drawing us into the company of artists and their concerns, not forgetting the quieter, unsung voices. The volume is an offering, an exploration of strata of sound that are the crossing points of sensory, intellectual, and philosophical preoccupations, layers through which objects, thoughts and air itself come alive as the inflamed invisible.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A critical and evidence-based account of the COVID-19 pandemic as a political-economic rupture, exposing underlying power struggles and social injustices.The dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic represented an exceptional interruption in the routines of work, financial markets, movement across borders and education. The policies introduced in response were said to be unprecedented-but the distribution of risks and rewards was anything but. While asset-owners, outsourcers, platforms and those in spacious homes prospered, others faced new hardships and dangers.   Unprecedented? explores the events of 2020-21, as they afflicted the UK economy, as a means to grasp the underlying dynamics of contemporary capitalism, which are too often obscured from view. It traces the political and cultural contours of a "rentier nationalism," that was lurking prior to the pandemic, but was accelerated and illuminated by COVID-19. But it also pinpoints the contradictions and weaknesses of this capitalist model, and the new sources of opposition that it meets.   An empirical, accessible and critical analysis of the COVID economy, Unprecedented? is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the political and economic turbulence of the pandemic's first eighteen months. …

Paperback. Condizione: New. Scholars around the world on how climate change stands to alter our research methods.Current research norms are increasingly unsustainable for the planet and scholars alike. Dominant modes of research and research dissemination place a premium on frequent travel and ever-expanding and energy-intensive archives of digital data. This shapes the character of research and the research community, advantaging hypermobile, well-resourced scholarly subjects above others, deepening both the climate and labor crises in academia.Low Carbon Research Methods explores the epistemological and equity impacts of high-carbon research as well as the potential gains made possible through a transition towards slower, less mobile, and more collaborative forms of inquiry and exchange. Through short, multi-authored chapters the book examines the prospects and challenges of decarbonizing different academic methods, including archival, ethnographic, arts-based, textual, and digital modes of inquiry. Its authors provide self-reflexive analyses, practical advice, and provocations to researchers new to critical methodology, as well as those returning to their methods with new questions prompted by growing climate justice imperatives, the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, and long-standing critiques from feminist, Global South, and disability studies scholars. In its emphasis on method, the book offers a generative meeting point for these varied concerns and coalitions. Methods usefully tie questions of individual behaviour choices to institutional policies and social practices-specifically around labor-and as such can provide useful avenues of collective action.Finally, the book also builds its project through distinct experiments in form. Its authors explore a range of styles, some specific to their disciplinary traditions, and some drawn from diverse genres including the manifesto, epistolary correspondence, group dialog, memoir, and speculative fiction. These variations in style underscore the argumentative aims of the book as a whole: to open, but not conclusively decide, discussions on this topic within different communities of practice.This title will be available open access.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Women have always worked in technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine. Sometimes they made important discoveries and breakthroughs; sometimes theysimply managed to exist and persist despite endless obstacles and a criminal lack of acknowledgment. Carefully researched, thoughtful, pitch perfect and precise, these poems about historical women scientists are hilarious and heart-breaking at the same time. There are women here whose names you may know (Rachel Carson, Mae Jemison, Hedy Lamarr, Ada Lovelace, Beatrix Potter) and others you probably don't (TapputiBelatekallim, June Bacon-Bercey, Eugenie Clark, Beatrice Medicine, Gladys West). Randall has a fine-tuned knack for metaphor and plain language, and her poetry unpicks injustice alongside complex scientific ideas. If you've seen Randall's poems in Scientific American, Analog, or Asimov's Science Fiction, you may already have been drawn into these extraordinary stories. Illustrated with portraits by NASA artist Kristin DiVona, these poems will resonate with scientists, feminists, thinkers, learners, philosophers, poets, and truth-seekers young, old and everywhere in between. DiVona, Kristin (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A feminist analysis of young women and popular culture and a forceful critique of male domination in youth culture.Feminism, Young Women and Cultural Studies: The Birmingham Essays from 1975 onwards by Angela McRobbie re-prints the Birmingham University CCCS essays of the 1970s and '80s and includes four new chapters of updated analysis on music, magazines, vintage fashion and youth culture. The early work (some of which has been on the A Level Sociology curriculum over the decades) provides both a feminist analysis of young women and popular culture as well as a forceful critique of male domination in youth culture and the ways in which an ideology of adolescentfemininity functioned so as to subdue and restrain young women in passive and subordinate gender unequal positions. The re-printed chapters also shine a light on the kinds of methodologies being developed at Birmingham University CCCS ascultural studies was emerging as a distinct field of study. These essays when first published found their way onto the university undergraduate curriculum across the world and were translated into many languages. Adopting an intersectional perspective and engaging with questions such as the 'category of the girl', the new chapters extend the field of study in a lively and accessible sociological voice. The book will be of keen interest for students in Sociology, Media and Cultural Studies and Literary Studies.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Scholars around the world on how climate change stands to alter our research methods.Current research norms are increasingly unsustainable for the planet and scholars alike. Dominant modes of research and research dissemination place a premium on frequent travel and ever-expanding and energy-intensive archives of digital data. This shapes the character of research and the research community, advantaging hypermobile, well-resourced scholarly subjects above others, deepening both the climate and labor crises in academia.Low Carbon Research Methods explores the epistemological and equity impacts of high-carbon research as well as the potential gains made possible through a transition towards slower, less mobile, and more collaborative forms of inquiry and exchange. Through short, multi-authored chapters the book examines the prospects and challenges of decarbonizing different academic methods, including archival, ethnographic, arts-based, textual, and digital modes of inquiry. Its authors provide self-reflexive analyses, practical advice, and provocations to researchers new to critical methodology, as well as those returning to their methods with new questions prompted by growing climate justice imperatives, the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, and long-standing critiques from feminist, Global South, and disability studies scholars. In its emphasis on method, the book offers a generative meeting point for these varied concerns and coalitions. Methods usefully tie questions of individual behaviour choices to institutional policies and social practices-specifically around labor-and as such can provide useful avenues of collective action.Finally, the book also builds its project through distinct experiments in form. Its authors explore a range of styles, some specific to their disciplinary traditions, and some drawn from diverse genres including the manifesto, epistolary correspondence, group dialog, memoir, and speculative fiction. These variations in style underscore the argumentative aims of the book as a whole: to open, but not conclusively decide, discussions on this topic within different communities of practice.This title will be available open access.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In a re-wilded, near-future England, a group of activists led by a writer try to make a noise in a society that refuses to hear its people.A re-wilded, half-submerged England is home to a divided society split into "haves" and "have-nots." Susan, once a teacher and writer, leads a small group of activists as they try to spread words-any words-in a world that no longer produces books. The Ghostwriters must try to revive ideas and get their message out whilst pitted against a system that shuts down thought and learning.After the break-up of the United Kingdom, war in Europe, starvation, and pandemic, the Capital is a society under siege. People just manage to survive on rations and scraps that they thieve. Always monitored, but never protected, life is cheap among the population. The Ghostwriters must navigate dangers, but who can be trusted and what secrets lie beneath the surface of the Old Capital.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. On how Generative AI and cults such as QAnon spread digitally and culturally follow the same rules as biological viruses.This groundbreaking new book reveals the hidden connections between artificial intelligence, conspiracy theories, and global pandemics. Virus is a Language presents a revolutionary framework showing how biological viruses, digital technologies, and cultural movements all operate according to the same fundamental viral principles.Drawing on decades of expertise in human-machine systems, Chris Hables Gray demonstrates that viruses-whether biological like COVID-19, digital like generative AI, or cultural like QAnon-share basic properties that can be analyzed as a unified language. This "viral language" has its own grammar and vocabulary governing how these forces propagate, mutate, and impact society.Just as we learned to speak the language of computers to harness their power, we must now learn to "speak virus" to navigate our complex world. Through case studies of generative AI, COVID-19, and QAnon, the work develops a comprehensive theory of "Virus as a Language."This framework provides crucial insights into exponential growth, infection patterns, immunization strategies, mutation processes, and extinction. Understanding these viral dynamics gives readers tools for analyzing Facebook's algorithmic influence, misinformation spread, AI evolution, and cultural contagion.The timing is critical. As generative AI revolutionizes culture, experts warn of future pandemics, and viral cults spread through social media, understanding these interconnected phenomena becomes essential for shaping our future rather than merely observing it.Written accessibly, Virus as a Language offers readers conceptual tools to decode viral processes reshaping society. Unlike books examining pandemics, AI, or conspiracy theories in isolation, this work reveals their deep structural connections through a unified framework, promising to foster essential conversations about the viral forcesdefining our world.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. On how Generative AI and cults such as QAnon spread digitally and culturally follow the same rules as biological viruses.This groundbreaking new book reveals the hidden connections between artificial intelligence, conspiracy theories, and global pandemics. Virus is a Language presents a revolutionary framework showing how biological viruses, digital technologies, and cultural movements all operate according to the same fundamental viral principles.Drawing on decades of expertise in human-machine systems, Chris Hables Gray demonstrates that viruses-whether biological like COVID-19, digital like generative AI, or cultural like QAnon-share basic properties that can be analyzed as a unified language. This "viral language" has its own grammar and vocabulary governing how these forces propagate, mutate, and impact society.Just as we learned to speak the language of computers to harness their power, we must now learn to "speak virus" to navigate our complex world. Through case studies of generative AI, COVID-19, and QAnon, the work develops a comprehensive theory of "Virus as a Language."This framework provides crucial insights into exponential growth, infection patterns, immunization strategies, mutation processes, and extinction. Understanding these viral dynamics gives readers tools for analyzing Facebook's algorithmic influence, misinformation spread, AI evolution, and cultural contagion.The timing is critical. As generative AI revolutionizes culture, experts warn of future pandemics, and viral cults spread through social media, understanding these interconnected phenomena becomes essential for shaping our future rather than merely observing it.Written accessibly, Virus as a Language offers readers conceptual tools to decode viral processes reshaping society. Unlike books examining pandemics, AI, or conspiracy theories in isolation, this work reveals their deep structural connections through a unified framework, promising to foster essential conversations about the viral forcesdefining our world.…