{"product_id":"transitions-sita-balani-jay-bernard","title":"Transitions: On Culture, Crisis, and the Human","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailable to pre-order - this title is due to ship in July\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart dialogue, part diagnosis, \u003cem\u003eTransitions \u003c\/em\u003eturns to the humanities to understand how we arrived at our present moment and what might carry us forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe legacies of Britain’s colonial past continue to shape the cultural landscape. The advent of AI has unsettled what it means to be human in the face of ruthless profiteering. In the aftermath of Thatcherism, ordinary people are surrounded by images of vast material wealth while having access to less and less – whether that be housing, public services, or cultural institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eTransitions: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOn Culture, Crisis, and the Human, \u003c\/em\u003ewriters and friends Jay Bernard and Sita Balani consider these questions, taking the UK as a microcosm of the world. Guided by Stuart Hall’s notion of ‘conjuncture’, they draw on literature, social theory, and lived experience to offer an urgent account of our fractured present. From the personal and local through to the global, their dialogue is inflected by a commitment to the humanities, narrative, and universal horizons, in a political culture determined to devalue them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDISCOURSE is a series of small books in which a theorist, artist, or writer engages in a dialogue with a theme, an artwork, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ean idea, or another individual across an extended text. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExplore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e the full series \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mackpublishing.au\/collections\/discourse\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MACK","offers":[{"title":"PRE-ORDER","offer_id":52178155241764,"sku":"9781915743992","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0897\/7865\/1428\/files\/Transitions_web_cover.jpg?v=1780259538","url":"https:\/\/www.mackpublishing.au\/products\/transitions-sita-balani-jay-bernard","provider":"MACK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}