The Parallax View is Slavoj Zizek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Zizek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Zizek is interested in the "parallax gap" sep[...]

This lively and entertaining history of the long struggle to measure the distance to the stars will appeal to general readers as well as to amateur and professional astronomers. Readers will encounter fascinating historical characters, from ancient Greeks to 19th-century scientists. Well illustrated[...]

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in PoetryOnly for you do the two mute girls on stage
"who falter at first, erratic as static""in the synaptic gap between each image, "
"imperceptibly jolt to life-"
"grinning, tap-dancing, morphing into footage, ""their arms like immacula[...]

In Parallax Sinead Morrissey documents what is caught, and what is lost, when houses and cityscapes, servants and saboteurs ('the different people who lived in sepia') are arrested in time by photography (or poetry), subjected to the authority of a particular perspective. Assured and disquieting, Mo[...]