Böcker av Michael Peters

The translation of Lyotard's work into English in 1984 marked an important stage in the globalization of the modernity/postmodernity debate involving the central thinkers of the late 20th century, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Richard Rorty, and others.

and its construction of market subjects such as education and the politics of space, ethics after Auschwitz, science and technology, the critical role of mass media, cybernetics and cyberspace, democracy and the politics of difference.

The concept of 'postmodern counternarratives' are developed as a frame for exploring the politics of media, technology and education within everyday struggles for human identities and loyalties.

Poststructuralism, considered in terms of contemporary cultural history, can be understood as belonging to the broad movement of European formalism, with explicit historical links to both Formalist and Futurist linguistics and poetics, and with aspects of the European avant-garde, especially Andre Breton's surrealism.

Examining, in the widest sense, the changes in political philosophy that have occurred in Western capitalist states since the early 1980s, this book focuses on the introduction of neo-liberal principles in the combined area of social and education

This rigorous text will present various methods for sampling, calculating, and performing simulation in real-time, providing biomedical engineers and researchers with more applicable information.

This book revises the existing account of the first Rudd Government's engagement with China, placing Australian foreign direct investment screening policy at the centre of the story.

Sports and competition have been film subjects since the dawn of the medium. This volume surveys the history of the sports documentary subgenre, covering more than 100 award-winning films of more than 40 different forms of competition - from traditional team sports to dogsled racing to ballroom dancing.

A companion to Daron Acemoglu's textbook, "Introduction to Modern Economic Growth", this manual contains solutions to selected exercises located throughout Acemoglu's text, helping students to maximize and reinforce their understanding of the material.

The late 1960s have witnessed the growth of subject areas outside the traditional liberal arts curriculum and disciplinary structure of the university curriculum. This text examines the emergence of "cultural studies" within the university and implications for a new disciplinary economy.