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When Technocultures CollideGary Genosko

“Gary Genosko has written a book that is conceptually dense and exceptionally timely. When Technocultures Collide deals with the most up-to-date subjects concerning technology, communication, and politics. Whoever wants to talk about these subjects must read it.”— Franco Bifo Berardi, author of After the Future (2011) and The Uprising(2012)

Cultural Studies

Laurier Digital

Representing Sound elucidates the base technical ontology, the machine essence, of every recorded musical communication. In so doing, it suggests the broad contours of an unprecedented theoretical basis for considering recording practice that posits no fundamental relationship between it and live performance. Representing Sound thus complicates common conceptions of sound to include different ontological states.

Representing SoundNotes on the Ontology of Recorded Musical CommunicationsJay Hodgson with Steve MacLeod

November 2013

Environmental HumanitiesAvatar and Nature SpiritualityBron Taylor, editor“Taylor’s new exciting volume gets at the heart of where most Westerners are engaging religious and spiritual life today: the realm of popular culture. The book’s contributors lead us on a compelling journey through a complex cultural ecology of religion, politics, fan forums, ethics, ecotopian promise, corporate violence, and troubling notions of the ‘native.’ At the end, we emerge with an altered eye, appreciating the power of narrative brought alive through the transformative semiotics of visual culture. ” – Sarah Macfarland Taylor, Northwestern University

Environmental HumanitiesEcologies of the Moving ImageCinema, Affect, NatureAdrian J. Ivakhiv“Ivakhiv, a leading light in the emerging eco-critical film studies, wraps two themes around each other, the cinema of and as ecology. His concern is with how cinema produces worlds, lives, and human subjects intricately implicated in the processes of Earth. Marrying Whitehead, Peirce, and Deleuze with eco-philosophy, Ivakhiv gives us a rich, eloquent, wide-ranging, and moving account of movement: as world, as cinema, and as hope.”— Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London

Canadian CommentariesTax Is Not a Four-Letter WordA Different Take on Taxes in CanadaAlex Himelfarb and Joseph Himelfarb, editors“How much are we willing to pay to live in a good and prosperous country? Do we have a tax system that is fair and efficient? What public goods and services do we want our governments to provide? If democracies exist only by the virtue of the engagement of citizens, then we need to have the courage to have a new conversation about taxation..”— Kevin Page, Canada’s first parliamentary budget officer; Jean-Luc Pepin Research Chair, University of Ottawa

Life WritingThe Memory of WaterAllen Smutylo

Nominated for the 2013 Governor General’s Award (non-fiction)“This poetic and gently sublime book takes us on a journey of discovery of ‘our home wrapped in water.’ — Tom Smart, author, curator, columnist and special advisor to art galleries and publishers across Canada. Author of Jack Chambers’ Red and Green

Life WritingBoom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular MarketJulie Rak“Here is the first backstory of the memoir boom in America: who reads it, writes it, publishes it, and sells it, and why it is such a necessary part of the way we live now.”— Gillian Whitlock, author of Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit(2007)

Life WritingThe Unwritten Diary of Israel UngerCarolyn Gammon and Israel Unger“…a powerful story of courage, survival, humility, and love—love of family, love of community, and love of peace, justice, and truth..... Like so many works motivated by passion and discovery and framed within the borders of historical and family narratives, this book became a journey of self-discovery and narrative renewal.... This book of memory is as finely written an account of a life as I have read.”— Richard Blaquiere, Bugle-Observer (Woodstock, NB)

The Memory EffectThe Remediation of Memory in Literature and FilmRussell J.A. Kilbourn and Eleanor Ty, editors

The Memory Effect is a collection of essays on the status of memory—individual and collective, cultural and transcultural—in contemporary literature, film, and other visual media. Contributors look at memory’s representation, adaptation, translation, and appropriation, as well as its mediation and remediation. Memory’s irreducibly constructed nature is explored, even as its status is reaffirmed as the basis of both individual and collective identity.

No AccidentEliminating Injury and Death on Canadian Roads

Neil ArasonNo Accident examines problems related to road safety and makes recommendations for the way forward. Topics include types of drivers; human-related driving errors related to fatigue, speed, alcohol, and distraction and roads; pedestrians, cyclists, and public transit; road engineering; motor vehicle regulation; auto safety design; and collision-avoidance technologies such as radar and camera-based sensors on vehicles that prevent crashes. This multi-disciplinary study demystifies the world of road safety and provides

a road map for the next twenty years.

February 2014

Laurier Poetry

Cultural Studies

November 2013

Parallel EncountersCulture at the Canada–US BorderGillian Roberts and David Stirrup, editors

“Parallel Encounters is an exciting addition to recent critical work that will not stop at the border! The sustained attention to the Canada-US border in this great collection contributes to crucial disciplinary shifts that now revise national fields in North American, hemispheric, and other transnational contexts.”  – Winfried Siemerling, author of The New North American Studies, co-editor of Canada and Its Americas.

Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies

1812: A Guide to the War and its Legacy

Terry Copp, Matt Symes, Caitlin McWilliams, Nick Lachance, Geoff Keelan, and Jeffrey W. Mott

The authors of 1812: A Guide to the War and its Legacy believe that the War of 1812 was an important event in North American history with lasting consequences for Canadians, Americans, and First Nations. This guidebook, published by the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, uses modern satellite images, archival records, paintings, and contemporary photographs to help readers understand what happened during the war and why it happened that way.

Map WorldsA History of Women in CartographyWill C. van den Hoonaard

Map Worlds plots a journey of discovery through the world of women map-makers from the golden age of cartography in the sixteenth-century Low Countries to tactile maps in contemporary Brazil. Author Will C. van den Hoonaard examines the history of women in the profession, sets out the situation of women in technical fields and cartography-related organizations, and outlines the challenges they face in their careers

Indigenous StudiesThe Nature of Empires and the Empire of NaturesIndigenous Peoples and the Great Lakes EnvironmentKarl S. Hele, editor

Drawing on themes from John MacKenzie’s Empires of Nature and the Nature of Empires (1997), this book explores, from Indigenous or Indigenous-influenced perspectives, the power of nature and the attempts by empires (United States, Canada, and Britain) to control it.

Indigenous StudiesIndigenous Poetics in CanadaNeal McLeod, editorIndigenous Poetics in Canada broadens the way in which Indigenous poetry is examined, studied, and discussed in Canada. Breaking from the parameters of traditional English literature studies, this volume embraces a wider sense of poetics, including Indigenous oralities, languages, and understandings of place.

March 2014

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