Tom Cohen

Why have local authorities responded relatively poorly to climate change to date? Why do most of them remain nervous of giving more power to citizens? This book asks whether a fresh approach to climate change that explicitly involves citizens in making policy decisions could help local authorities establish a more positive relationship with members of their community. Participatory budgeting is one way in which this positive relationship could be established, as in addition to letting citizens determine how money is spent in their neighbourhoods, they will also be asked to meet some greenhouse gas emission targets at the same time. This book describes the process of developing "participatory emissions budgeting" (PEB), identifying the challenges inherent in attempting to estimate the greenhouse gas emissions attributable to a local authority project. It then describes trials of this decision-making method that were conducted with citizens and the subsequent discussions that took place with local authority officers and members to test the appetite for using this method. Given the significant barriers to implementation encountered, the author goes on to discuss why this might be and asks what lessons PEB can teach us about the relationship between local authorities and their citizens within the context of climate change. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate governance and citizen participation.

A Role for Participatory Budgeting

Local Government, Citizens and Climate Change

This is a trans-disciplinary collection dedicated to the work of Jacques Derrida and his work in the humanities.

A Critical Reader

Jacques Derrida and the Humanities

Claire Colebrook

J. Hillis Miller

with a manuscript by Paul de Man

Paul de Man is often associated with an era of ‘high theory’, an era it is argued may now be coming to a close. This book, written by three leading contemporary scholars, includes both a transcript and facsimile print of a previously unpublished text by de Man of his handwritten notes for a lecture on Walter Benjamin. Challenging and relevant, this volume presents de Man’s work as a critical resource for dealing with the most important questions of the twenty-first century and argues for the place of theory within it. The humanities are flooded with crises of globalism, capitalism and terrorism, contemporary narratives of financial collapse, viral annihilation, species extinction, environmental disaster and terrorist destruction. Cohen, Colebrook and Miller draw out the implications of these crises and their narratives and, reflecting on this work by de Man, explore the limits of political thinking, of historical retrieval and the ethics of archives and cultural memory.

On de Man, On Benjamin

Theory and the Disappearing Future

This second volume presents the director's work as a radical collage of images and absences, letters and numbers, citations and sounds that together mark Hitchcock as a knowing figure who was entirely aware of this - and cinema's place at the dawn of a global media culture, as well as the cinema's revolutionary impact on perception and memory.

Hitchcock's Cryptonymies

Collects Amazing Spider-Man: The Movie #1-2 & Amazing Spider-Man #75-77. As Peter Parker swings into action as Spider-Man, hes about to face his first challenge as a super hero! Go between the scenes with this story-inspired and based upon the new The Amazing Spider-Man movie! Plus, a bonus Spidey tale featuring the Lizard.

The Movie Prelude

Amazing Spider-Man

prelude

The amazing Spider-Man 2

Este volumen es una colección transdisciplinaria dedicada a la obra de Jacques Derrida, las contribuciones reunidas son una investigación del papel de su obra en el campo de las humanidades. Además de su interés pedagógico, esta obra intenta responder a la pregunta: cuál sería la relación de Derrida, o “deconstrucción”, para el futuro de las humanidades. El volumen presenta ya los ejemplos más sustentables de reconstrucción en su fase actual, como su posible futuro

un lector crítico

Jacques Derrida y las humanidades

Following on from Theory and the Disappearing Future, Cohen, Colebrook and Miller turn their attention to the eco-critical and environmental humanities' newest and most fashionable of concepts, the Anthropocene. The question that has escaped focus, as "tipping points" are acknowledged as passed, is how language, mnemo-technologies, and the epistemology of tropes appear to guide the accelerating ecocide, and how that implies a mutation within reading itself-from the era of extinction events. Only in this moment of seeming finality, the authors argue, does there arise an opportunity to be done with mourning and begin reading. Drawing freely on Paul de Man's theory of reading, anthropomorphism and the sublime, Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols argues for a mode of critical activism liberated from all-too-human joys and anxieties regarding the future. It was quite a few decades ago (1983) that Jurgen Habermas declared that 'master thinkers had fallen on hard times.' His pronouncement of hard times was premature. For master thinkers it is the best of times. Not only is the world, supposedly, falling into a complete absence of care, thought and frugality, a few hyper-masters have emerged to tell us that these hard times should be the best of times. It is precisely because we face the end that we should embrace our power to geo-engineer, stage the revolution, return to profound thinking, reinvent the subject, and recognize ourselves fully as one global humanity. Enter anthropos. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

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