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Extending the definition of ecology to encompass social relations and human subjectivity as well as environmental concerns, The Three Ecologies argues that the ecological crises that threaten our planet are the direct result of the expansion of a new form of capitalism and that a new ecosophical approach must be found which respects the differences between all living systems.

This edition includes a chronology of Guattari's life and work, introductions to both his general philosophy and to the work itself, and extended notes to the original text..
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Carefully selected from the voluminous output of the past 40 years, this collection reprints the key critical writings on Canadian communications thinker Marshall McLuhan. McLuhan's famous aphorisms and uncanny ability to sense megatrends are once again in circulation across and beyond the disciplines. Since his untimely death in 1980, McLuhan's ideas have been rediscovered and redeployed with urgency in the age of information and cybernation.

Featuring critical introductions to each section by the editor, materials include:

- Interpretations by globally significant writers and theorists such as Tom Wolfe, Raymond Williams, Jean Baudrillard and Umberto Eco, and reveals the contours of McLuhan's reception in France, as well as skirmishes with his leading ideas by journalists and postmodernists throughout the world.
- Essays by noted communications theorists such as James Carey, Donald Theall and Derrick de Kerckhove, linking McLuhan's influence across the arts and in relation tocritical theory, literary theory and recent literature on postmodernism.
- The McLuhan renaissance of the 1990s in the rise of cyberculture, touching upon his elevation to patron saint of Wired magazine, providing a foundation for Paul Virilio's theses on speed, and interpretative framework for theorizing new technologies from geographic information systems to the Internet and cyborg life..
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In McLuhan and Baudrillard, Gary Genosko traces McLuhan's influence on the influential French postmodernist thinker, Jean Baudrillard

Gary Genosko argues that McLuhan's ideas have been far more influential than hitherto imagined in the development of postmodern theory. Tracing parallels between the so-called "McLuhan Cult" of the 1960's and the "Baudrillard Scene" of the 1980's, he explores how McLuhan's ideas persist and are distorted through Baudrillard's work, via concepts such as semiurgy, participation, reversibility, the primitive/tribal, and implosion. He argues that it is through the filter of Baudrillard's writings that McLuhan has had the greatest impact on contemporary cultural thought and practice..
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These three volumes reprint key essays by leading theorists and practitioners on Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's life and work, both individually and in their collaborations

Contents:
Volume 1 provides an overview of Deleuze's importance for cultural theory and practice across the arts, including essays on theatre, cinema, video, painting, literature, music and dance. This volume also includes assessments of Deleuze's original and fecund engagements with the philosophies of Hume, Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant and Nietzsche and his effort to loosen them from the grip of the canon of the history of philosophy.
The critical essays in Volume 2 constitute the first published collection devoted exclusively to Guattari's life and work. His writing is placed in the context of the anti-psychiatry movement, and his critique of capitalism, and participation in and reflections on new social movements are brought into focus. A major section is devoted to his contributions to the theory and practice of schizoanalysis and to radical therapeutic interventions in general, but with special attention to the implications of his seminal concept of transversality.
Volume 3 includes both indispensable classic essays on the collaborations of Deleuze and Guattari by those who were their contemporaries, and takes their work in new directions by displaying its importance for urban studies and architecture, with an emphasis on its Japanese reception. A section is devoted exclusively to feminist responses to their work. The problems and promises of machinic and nomad thought are also investigated in depth.

Includes:
* key essays by French, American, Australian, British, German, Italian, Japanese, Filipino and Canadian theorists and practitioners
* the development of implications for the built environment
* first ever collection of critical material on Guattari
* long out-of-print and hard to find materials..
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