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Free Download Writings of Larisa Reisner (Historical Materialism Book)
by Cathy Porter, Richard Chappell
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9004687009 | 353 Pages | True PDF | 2.83 MB

Free Download Reading Marx: On Transcendental Materialism
by Reiner Schürmann
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3035802017 | 161 Pages | True PDF | 0.83 MB

Free Download Sam Mickey, "New Materialism and Theology "
English | ISBN: 9004520295 | 2022 | 88 pages | PDF | 1010 KB
Juxtaposing theological inquiry with the philosophical movement of new materialism, Sam Mickey reflects on questions of human embodiment, nonhuman agency, technological innovation, and possible futures for humankind. New Materialism and Theology opens several pathways for thinking about what really matters.

Free Download Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume 2: A Weak Nature Alone By Adrian Johnston
2019 | 408 Pages | ISBN: 0810140624 | PDF | 2 MB
Adrian Johnston’s trilogy Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism aims to forge a thoroughly materialist yet antireductive theory of subjectivity. In this second volume, A Weak Nature Alone, Johnston focuses on the philosophy of nature required for such a theory. This volume is guided by a fundamental question: How must nature be rethought so that human minds and freedom do not appear to be either impossible or inexplicable within it? Asked differently: How must the natural world itself be structured such that sapient subjects in all their distinctive peculiarities emerged from and continue to exist within this world? In A Weak Nature Alone, Johnston develops his transcendental materialist account of nature through engaging with and weaving together five main sources of inspiration: Hegelian philosophy, Marxist materialism, Freudian-Lacanian metapsychology, Anglo-American analytic neo-Hegelianism, and evolutionary theory and neurobiology. Johnston argues that these seemingly (but not really) strange bedfellows should be brought together so as to construct a contemporary ontology of nature. Through this ontology, nonnatural human subjects can be seen to arise in an immanent, bottom-up fashionfrom nature itself.

Free Download Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction by Mark Fisher
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0692066055 | 212 Pages | PDF | 8.1 MB
Donna Haraway’s celebrated observation that "our machines are disturbingly lively, while we ourselves are frighteningly inert" has given this issue a certain currency in contemporary cyber-theory.

Free Download Vladimir Ilich Lenin, N Lenin, "Materialism And Empirio Criticism: Collected Works Of V. I. Lenin V13"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 125803333X, 1258140187 | EPUB | pages: 392 | 0.5 mb
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism is a book written by Vladimir Lenin, a prominent Marxist theorist and revolutionary leader of the Soviet Union. This book is the thirteenth volume in the Collected Works of V. I. Lenin and was first published in 1909. In this book, Lenin critiques the philosophical theories of empirio-criticism and positivism, which were popular in Europe at the time. He argues that these theories are a form of idealism and do not accurately reflect the material world. Lenin advocates for a materialist approach to understanding the world, which emphasizes the role of objective reality and the laws of nature.Lenin also discusses the relationship between materialism and dialectics, arguing that they are complementary and necessary for understanding the world. He explores the role of consciousness in the material world, arguing that it is a product of material reality rather than the other way around.Overall, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism is a significant work in Marxist philosophy and provides valuable insights into Lenin’s views on materialism, dialectics, and the relationship between consciousness and the material world.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Free Download Mary Bittner Wiseman, "A Grand Materialism in the New Art from China "
English | ISBN: 1498596908 | 2020 | 198 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1525 KB + 2 MB
In A Grand Materialism in the New Art from China, Mary Bittner Wiseman shows that material matters in the work of Chinese artists, where the goal is to call attention to its subjects through the directness and immediacy of its material (like dust from 9/11, 1001 Chinese citizens, paintings made with gunpowder, written words) or the specificity of its sites (such as the Three Gorges Dam). Artists are working below the level of language where matter and gesture, texture and touch, instinct and intuition live. Not reduced to the words applied to them, art’s subjects appear in their concrete particularity, embedded in the stories of their materials or their sites. Wiseman argues that it is global in being able to be understood by all thanks to its materials and the stories that accompany it, and the art is contemporary in having to make the case for itself that it is art. Finally, it satisfies Arthur Danto’s characterization of art as any representation that puts its subject in a new light by way of a rhetorical figure that the viewer interprets. The material art from China is the paradigm for an art that is global and contemporary.

Free Download Kai Merten University of Erfurt Ger, "Diffractive Reading: New Materialism, Theory, Critique "
English | ISBN: 1786613964 | 2021 | 352 pages | EPUB | 26 MB
Putting the New Materialist figure of diffraction to use in a set of readings – in which cultural texts are materially read against their contents and their themes, against their readers or against other texts – this volume proposes a criticalintervention into the practice of reading itself. In this book, reading and reading methodology are probed for their materiality and re-considered as being inevitably suspended between, or diffracted with, both matter and discourse. The history of literary and cultural reading, including poststructuralism and critical theory, is revisited in a new light and opened-up for a future in which the world and reading are no longer regarded as conveniently separate spheres, but recognized as deeply entangled and intertwined.

Free Download Toni Ingram, "Feminist New Materialism, Girlhood, and the School Ball "
English | ISBN: 1350165727 | 2023 | 186 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 8 MB
Engaging with feminist new materialism, Toni Ingram reveals the ways in which the school ball (or prom) can be understood as an assemblage of material objects, spaces, practices, ideas and imaginings which contribute to the process of becoming school ball-girl. The ball-girl is not a fixed identity or subject but is an intra-active becoming – a dynamic, shifting process where bodies, sexuality and femininities are relationally produced. (Re)conceptualising the school ball-girl as emergent phenomena provides openings for thinking about girls and this schooling practice beyond popular cultural narratives. Building on the social theory of Barad, Bennett, Best, Deleuze and Guattari, this book offers a new perspective on girls, sexuality, gender and schooling, while also exploring the potential of feminist new materialisms for rethinking educational practices and the human subject.

Free Download Materialism From Hobbes to Locke
by Stewart Duncan
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0197613004 | 248 Pages | True ePUB | 0.59 MB