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        PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics

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        Does the Sun Have a Translucent Shell?

        Does the Sun Have a Translucent Shell?

        Does the Sun Have a Translucent Shell?

        Edited by Jeanne Gerrity and Diego Villalobos

        ISBN: 9781915609731

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: August 5, 2025

        On the timely themes in the work of Anicka Yi, including AI, umwelt, scent and taste, the anthropocene, decay and rot, the animal world, and feminism.
        Contemporaneity in Embodied Data Practices

        Contemporaneity in Embodied Data Practices

        Contemporaneity in Embodied Data Practices

        by Cornelia Sollfrank and Felix Stalder

        ISBN: 9781915609632

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: June 24, 2025

        On the relationship between quantifiable and experiential knowledge as entanglement of multiple temporalities.
        Play It Again, Sam

        Play It Again, Sam

        Play It Again, Sam

        Repetition in the Arts

        by Samuel Jay Keyser

        ISBN: 9780262552325

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 27, 2025

        Why we enjoy works of art, and how repetition plays a central part in the pleasure we receive.
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        Aesthetic Politics

        by Sean Cubitt

        ISBN: 9781915983305

        Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

        Pub Date: May 27, 2025

        What is the good life—for me, for us, for the cosmos?
        Cloud: Between Paris and Tehran

        Cloud: Between Paris and Tehran

        Cloud: Between Paris and Tehran

        Kiarostami/Corbin/Lacan

        by Joan Copjec

        ISBN: 9780262552394

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 6, 2025

        A theoretical examination of veiling, shame, and modesty in the films of the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami through the lenses of Islamic philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis.
        The Beauty of Games

        The Beauty of Games

        The Beauty of Games

        by Frank Lantz

        ISBN: 9780262552950

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 11, 2025

        How games create beauty and meaning, and how we can use them to explore the aesthetics of thought.
        The Autonomy of Art Is Ordinary

        The Autonomy of Art Is Ordinary

        The Autonomy of Art Is Ordinary

        Notes in Defense of an Idea of Emancipation

        by Kim West

        ISBN: 9781915609618

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: February 4, 2025

        An essay-length argument for the autonomy of art in the present.
        The Feeling of Space

        The Feeling of Space

        The Feeling of Space

        by Christopher Bardt

        ISBN: 9780262049368

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 31, 2024

        A richly illustrated exploration of humanity's drive to shape life as a spatial project, from Plato's time to the digital era.
        Finance Aesthetics

        Finance Aesthetics

        Finance Aesthetics

        A Critical Glossary

        Edited by Torsten Andreasen, Emma Sofie Brogaard, Mikkel Krause Frantzen, Nicholas Alan Huber and Frederik Tygstrup

        ISBN: 9781915983190

        Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

        Pub Date: December 24, 2024

        A unique, critical, and creative encyclopedia from scholars, artists, and writers on the world and words of finance capital.
        How to Research Like a Dog

        How to Research Like a Dog

        How to Research Like a Dog

        Kafka’s New Science

        by Aaron Schuster

        ISBN: 9780262543545

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 10, 2024

        A provocative book that proposes a new and surprising inspiration for philosophy today—the canine thinker from Kafka's story “Investigations of a Dog.”
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