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"Key questions in food ethics-food aid, local diets, food labelling, sustainability and agricultural pollution-have been understood through a lens that takes production, processing and distribution to be general features of the industrial economy. Challenging these fundamental assumptions calls for an approach that goes beyond dietary advice. A deep inquiry into the nature of food and farming, and into the institutions that structure food purchases and environmental regulation shows how a place-based agrarian outlook reveals unappreciated philosophical complexity, opening to a more satisfactory ethos for contemporary food practices. At the same time, the promise of an alternative food ethic requires uncovering the way that traditional agrarian norms continue to be implicated in structural racism and oppression. Thompson's "agrarian pragmatism" counters mainstream applied ethics with a line of argument contrasting ethical inquiry with discourses of persuasion and social control. The book concludes with a study of how food ethics provides an entry into dialog between themes in environmental philosophy and the philosophy of race"--

"This book explains how the knowledge economy, a seeming wonder for the world, has caused unintended harms that threaten peace and prosperity and undo international cooperation and the international rule of law. It also points to ways out of these crises"--

Klappentext: "Dysphoria mundi" es un diario de la transición planetaria que toma la forma de un texto mutante, hecho de ensayo, filosofía, poesía y autoficción, que busca capturar las convulsiones del fin del capitalismo patriarco-colonial. Preciado describe en esta obra las modalidades de un presente revolucionario: no algo que sucedió en un pasado mítico o que sucederá en un futuro mesiánico, sino algo que nos está sucediendo. Nos encontramos frente a uno de los libros más ambiciosos que se han escrito durante la crisis del covid; un libro-mundo donde el autor recoge los cambios que se están produciendo en todos los ámbitos sociales, políticos, sexuales... La fascinante hipótesis que nos propone Preciado aquí consiste en generalizar la noción de disforia para entenderla no como una enfermedad mental, sino como un abismo epistémico y político: el que separa el antiguo régimen capitalista, patriarcal y colonial, que conduce inexorablemente a la extinción, de una nueva forma de vida que hasta ahora había sido descalificada como improductiva y anormal, y que ha acabado revelándose como la única salida posible. Explotando todos los límites disciplinarios y sus binarismos, Preciado se afirma aquí como uno de los filósofos internacionales más importantes del momento, y consigue entregar, como ha afirmado Judith Butler, una obra 'monumental': un libro imprescindible para entender el presente y más aún para adentrarse en el futuro

"Veganism as an ethics and a practice has a recorded history dating back to Antiquity. Yet, it is only recently that researchers have begun the process of formalizing the study of veganism. Whereas occasional publications have recently emerged from sociology, history, philosophy, cultural studies, or critical animal studies, a comprehensive geographical analysis is missing. Until now. In fourteen chapters from a diverse group of scholars and living practitioners, Vegan Geographies looks across space and scale, exploring the appropriateness of vegan ethics among diverse social and cultural groups, and within the midst of broader neoliberal economic and political frameworks that seek to commodify and marketize the movement. Vegan Geographies fundamentally challenges outdated but still dominant human-nature dualisms that underpin widespread suffering and ecological degradation, providing practical and accessible pathways for people interested in challenging contemporary systems and working collectively toward less destructive worlds"--

This book, first published in 1985, analyses the factors that have shaped the militarization of space. By examining in great detail the determinants of U.S. policy, it explains why for over 25 years space did not become the scene of an arms race, and why this began to change in the late 1970s. Both superpowers did, however, develop a limited anti-satellite capability in the 1960s, and these programmes are also discussed.

Detestable and Wicked Arts -- Contents -- List of Maps, Figures, and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: The Devil in New England -- 1. "Hanged for a Witch": Witch-Hunting in New England before 1670 -- 2. "Being Instigated by the Devil": The Crime of Witchcraft -- 3. "A Forward, Discontented Frame of Spirit": The New England Witch -- 4. "The More Women, the More Witches": Gender and Witchcraft -- 5. "There Was Some Mischief in It": The Social Context of Witchcraft -- 6. "Very Awful and Amazing": Witch Panics and the Bewitched -- 7. "According to God's Law": Witch- Hunting as a Judicial Process -- Conclusion: The Case of Ann Burt and Witch-Hunting in the English Atlantic -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Intro -- Acquiring Modernity -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- 1 No Rest Until Modernity is Acquired -- 2 Speculation Ends, Science Begins -- 3 Divesting Philosophy's Ultimate Word -- 4 The Concept of Society -- 5 History and Human Development -- 6 A History of Struggles -- 7 Mystical Consciousness -- 8 Illusions to this Day -- 9 An Inverted World -- 10 Educating the Educator -- 11 Windy Idealists and Frothy Youth -- 12 Middle Class Snobbism -- 13 Pauperism and Artificial Impoverishment -- 14 Social Scum -- 15 Of Souls, Sighs, and Opium -- 16 The Cult of Nature -- 17 World Literature -- 18 Modern Society's All-dominating Power -- 19 An Impulse never Before Known -- 20 Head of the Movement -- 21 Absurd Epidemics -- 22 Swindling Joint-stock Companies -- 23 Machines -- 24 Rule of the Towns -- 25 Feverish Anxiety and Astonishment -- 26 Solids Melting into Air -- 27 Civilization and Barbarism -- 28 Celebrating Orgies, Blood, and Fire -- 29 Bureaucracy and the Bureaucrats -- 30 The Economic Existence of the State -- 31 Democracy for their Truth -- 32 Parliamentary Disease and the Holy Ghost -- 33 The Executive Committee -- 34 Modern Mythology and its Goddesses -- 35 Rolling Back the Wheel -- 36 The Goal of Popular Desire -- 37 National Egoism -- 38 Every Sect is Religious -- 39 Disgusting Despotism -- 40 The Sycophantic Babblers -- 41 Applying Chemistry to Industry and Agriculture -- 42 The Measure of Social Progress -- 43 Defiling Republics -- 44 A Fetish Dark and Mysterious -- 45 The World Market -- 46 The Political Chessboard -- 47 Throwing Dust in People's Eyes -- 48 Gravedigging Megalomaniacs -- 49 The Sorcerer -- 50 Prevailing Tendencies -- 51 Common Ruin -- 52 Chains, Riddles, Worlds -- 53 Socialist Sentimentalizing -- 54 Whether We Want it or Not -- 55 Afterword -- 56 Postmodernism?.