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To Be a Machine
WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2018 Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017 A stunning new non-fiction voice tackles an urgent question... what next for mankind? 'Troubling and humorous, this is one of my current give-it-to-everyone books - I buy six copies at a time' Jeanette Winterson
Postracial Fantasies and Zombies
This book understands the postracial as a genre—like the zombie apocalypse—that signals a disturbance in society that is felt as terrifying and exciting. The postracial is repetitive and reproduces blackened biothreat bodies, rituals of securitization, and fantasies of the reclamation of white masculine sovereignty. Eric King Watts examines key moments when Blackness became an object of knowledge in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, preparing the "scientific" and philosophical ground for interpreting zombie lore. The book treats the "Greater Caribbean" as a transformative space in which an antiblack infrastructure arose and interrogates the US's militarized domination of Haiti that was the context in which the zombie emerged. Watts traces variations of the form and function of the zombie to contemplate how it matters to our contemporary struggles with racism and pandemic policies.
Year of the Wolf
Jonathan Wilkes, a computer genius and program inventor who has worked for the Pentagon for ten years, is returning to upstate New York for reconciliation with his parents. But on the way, he is attacked by a dangerous predator. After recovering from his injuries, he meets Susan Morehouse, assistant supervisor of the Department of Indigenous Animal Control (DIAC). Both of them are searching for answers to the same question: Who is behind the release of wolves into the Adirondack Park, and why? Jonathan and Susan, along with three othersone the mother of a wolf-attack victimjoin together to find the answers. Their investigation leads them all the way to the New York governors mansion and a se...
The Irish Monthly
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