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This volume of Reiner Schurmann's lectures unpacks Nietzsche's ambivalence towards Kant, in particular positioning Nietzsche's claim to have brought an end to German idealism against the backdrop of the Kantian transcendental-critical tradition.

This new anthology takes stock of our empirical and historical understanding of the two-sided nature of media and tracks the recent turn in media studies to examining practice itself.

A tale of strange events and stranger consequences, this is a novel in which a back tattoo comes to life, a meteor lands, and a neighborhood dog begins to think human thoughts, all shining a light on the strangeness of contemporary suburban America.

What has been the specifically modern function of self-consciousness? Why speak of rise or origin? It would obviously be absurd to claim that before Luther, Descartes or Kant, people had no self-consciousness. Yet in pre-modern cultures self-consciousness has not fulfilled the systematic role that it has come to play since then. In this lecture Schuermann traces its rise of in its modern form and function, i.e. as the subjective reference point before which every object must appear to qualify as a phenomenon. As opposed to earlier conceptions, self-consciousness in its modern version rules over its contents, it imposes a regime on being. This transcendental turn is studied in Luther whose Copernican reversal in the way of thinking is less well known than the foundational character of both the Cartesian "cogito" and Kantian "apperception." First of 29 volumes of Reiner Schuermann's so far unpublished lecture notes. Starting with Parmenides (Vol. 1) up to Contemporary French Philosophy (Vol. 29) Schuermann offers a unique reading of the history of western thought and action as a series of eras governed by the rise and fall of certain dominating concepts that contained the seeds of their own destruction.

Examines the visual arts within the Portuguese empire between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. With a focus on the appropriation of Portuguese-Christian art within the colonies, this book looks at how these and other objects could be staged to generate layers of meaning.

Introduces the concept of "neighborhood technologies" as a model for intermediate, or meso-level, research into the links between local agents and neighborhood relations. This book have assembled a group of contributors who are either natural scientists with an interest in interdisciplinary research or tech-savvy humanists.

Bringing together a renowned international group of contributors, this book explores the problems in the study of vision and cognition: to make sense of the sensations we experience when we see something, we must configure many moments into a synchronous image.

Alberto Giacometti's 1934 Cube stands apart as a Swiss artist, the abstract sculptural work that otherwise had as its objective the exploration of reality. Drawing on Freud, Bataille, Leiris, and others whom Giacometti counted as influences, this book presents fans and collectors of Giacometti's art with an approach to transitional work.