Austin Sarat

Andrew Poe

Jonathan Obert

Guns are ever-present figures in the American public conversation. Rather than rehash the same debates over the right to bear arms or who is at fault in mass shootings, The Lives of Guns shifts the focus from the people wield or defend them to the guns themselves. Taking the agency and power of guns as a radical jumping-off point, this book explores guns as political actors in American culture, ultimately offering something new and different to a complex and emotion-laden debate.

The ^ALives of Guns

Christopher Dole

Robert Hayashi

If catastrophes are, by definition, exceptional events of such magnitude that worlds and lives are dramatically overturned, the question of timing would pose a seemingly straightforward, if not redundant question. The Time of Catastrophe demonstrates the analytic productiveness of this question, arguing that there is much to be gained by interrogating the temporal conceits of conventional understandings of catastrophe and the catastrophic. Bringing together a distinguished, interdisciplinary group of scholars, the book develops a critical language for examining 'catastrophic time', recognizing the central importance of, and offering a set of frameworks for, examining the alluring and elusive qualities of catastrophe. Framed around the ideas of Agamben, Kant and Benjamin, and drawing on philosophy, history, law, political science, anthropology and the arts, this volume seeks to demonstrate how the question of 'catastrophic time' is in fact a question about something much more than the frequency of disasters in our so-called 'Age of Catastrophe'.

Andrew Poe

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