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4. Subject Classification

Custom Categories

  • Anthropocene: the "end(s)" of humanity, climate emergency, human impact on the planet
  • Art+Aesthetics: books by/about artists
  • Autotheory: biographical approaches to the theoretical and theoretical approaches to biography
  • Biosphere: nature/ecology studies
  • Built Environments: architecture
  • Capital+Lucre: capitalism, economic theory, expenditure, surplus
  • Cultural Studies+Critical Theory: cultural studies and critical theory
  • Fabulations: fiction, poetry
  • History: history
  • Humanities+University: university studies, humanities
  • Languages+Translations: linguistics, translations, language philosophy
  • Literary Studies: literary studies
  • Manifesto!: manifestos, pamphlets, calls to action
  • Media+Technology: media studies, STS
  • Moving Image: film studies
  • Neurodiverse+Crip: neurodiverse and crip studies/authors
  • New Left Thought: political theory
  • Para-Academia: authors on academic margins, adjunctification, changing the university
  • Pedagogies: pedagogy
  • Philosophy: philosophy
  • Posthumanism: ??the post-, other-, and more-than-human. Books about the impact of humankind on the planet should go under Anthropocene.
  • Premodern: classical, medieval studies
  • Sex: sexuality, pornography
  • Sound+Noise: sound studies, music, noise
  • Thought Experiments: experimental writing, cross-genre publications
  • TransQueer: LGBTQIA+ studiesstudies, authors

Thema

BISAC

BISAC is a very rough ad outdated subject classification scheme that inexplicably is still widely used in the book industry. KDP and Asterism Books have this as their standard classification system.

Keywords

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