{"title":"Series: Critical Life Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eCritical Life Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e series invites readers to explore a diverse range of subjects that challenge conventional perspectives across philosophy, psychology, business, and history. From thoughtful examinations of altruism and value investing to insightful journeys through culture and technology, these titles offer depth and critical analysis for curious minds seeking to understand the complexities of modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhether delving into the nuances of health and wellness, uncovering the stories behind global trades like sugar, or navigating practical guides for computing and travel, this collection balances intellectual rigour with accessible storytelling. Each work encourages reflection and a fresh approach to familiar topics, making it a valuable resource for thoughtful readers across multiple disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"plants-in-place-by-edward-s-casey-9780231213455","title":"Plants in Place","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlants are commonly considered immobile, in contrast to humans and other animals. But vegetal existence involves many place-based forms of change: stems growing upward, roots spreading outward, fronds unfurling in response to sunlight, seeds traveling across wide distances, and other intricate relationships with the surrounding world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow do plants as sessile, growing, decaying, and metamorphosing beings shape the places they inhabit, and how are they shaped by them? How do human places interact with those of plants—in lived experience; in landscape painting; in cultivation and contemplation; in forests, fields, gardens, and cities?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExamining these questions and many more, \u003cem\u003ePlants in Place\u003c\/em\u003e is a collaborative study of vegetal phenomenology at the intersection of Edward S. Casey's phenomenology of place and Michael Marder's plant-thinking. It focuses on both the microlevel of the dynamic constitution of plant edges or a child's engagement with moss and the macrolevel of habitats that include the sociality of trees. 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Seeking to overthrow all constraints on what can be done with and to the body, Paul B. Preciado offers a provocative challenge to even the most radical claims about gender, sexuality, and desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePreciado lays out mock constitutional principles for a countersexual revolution that will recognize genitalia as technological objects and offers step-by-step illustrated instructions for dismantling the heterocentric social contract. He calls theorists such as Derrida, Foucault, Butler, and Haraway to task for not going nearly far enough in their attempts to deconstruct the naturalisation of normative identities and behaviours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePreciado's claim that the dildo precedes the penis—that artifice, not nature, comes first in the history of sexuality—forms the basis of his demand for new practices of sexual emancipation. He calls for a world of sexual plasticity and fabrication, of bio-printers and \"dildonics,\" and he invokes countersexuality's roots in the history of sex toys, pornography, and drag in order to rupture the supposedly biological foundations of the heterocentric regime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis claims are extreme, but supported through meticulous readings of philosophy and theory, as well as popular culture. 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