Repeater imprint: 63 books
The Ballerina and the Bull
Anarchist Utopias in the Age of Finance
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Our moment has seen the resurgence of an anarchist sensibility, from the uprisings in Seattle in 1999 to the Occupy movement of 2011. Against the vacuity and drift of financialized capitalism, proclaiming there is no alternative, these insurgent movements have insisted that an alternative is possible....
Filling the Void
Social Media and The Continuation of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Filling The Void is a book about how the cultures and psychology of social media use fit within a broader landscape of life under capitalism. It argues that social media use is often a psychological response to the need for pleasure and comfort that results from the stresses of life under postmodern...
by Toby Austin Locke
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
The Living and the Dead examines the boundaries between the worlds of life and death.
The text draws upon philosophy, ethnography, literature and natural science to suggest that life and death are best understood not in opposition, but as continuous tendencies acting upon one another. Austin...
by Mark Perryman
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
A unique 50th anniversary collection of superlative writing and new football thinking. A first-ever oral history of ’66 combined with match reports provided by writers from each of the countries England played, create a highly original view of the tournament - how the fans watched the games, the...
by Joe Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Is soccer inherently political? What does soccer actually mean today? Games Without Frontiers seeks force us to think about what we mean when we say 'soccer'. Along the way, it skewers media cliches about footballers and fans, considers the sport's implications for radical politics and aesthetics,...
The Worst Is Yet to Come
A Post-Capitalist Survival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Capitalism is about to commit suicide and is threatening to take us down with it. But will it give way to a grand social utopia or the beginning of a new dark age... albeit WiFi enabled?
The Worst is Yet to Come explores the disturbing possibility that the current crisis of neoliberal capitalism...
Nincompoopolis
The Follies of Boris Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
In a world where the built environment seems ever more shaped by invisible market forces, where modern architecture can seem to dissolve into a generic void, sometimes it takes a very special person to make a difference.
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson was Mayor of London from 2008 until...
Mad Skills
MIDI and Music Technology in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
A cultural history of MIDI (the Musical Instrument Digital Interface), one of the most revolutionary and transformative technologies in the history of music.
A history of electronic music that goes way beyond the Moog.
Part rigorous history, part insightful commentary, and part memoir,...
K-punk
The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
A comprehensive collection of the writings of Mark Fisher (1968-2017), whose work defined critical writing for a generation.
This comprehensive collection brings together the work of acclaimed blogger, writer, political activist and lecturer Mark Fisher (aka k-punk). Covering the period 2004...
by Graham Harman
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
In this book the founder of object-oriented philosophy transforms one of the classic poets of the Western canon, Dante Alighieri, into an edgy stimulus for contemporary continental thought. It is well known that Dante's poetic works interpret love as the moving force of the universe: as embodied in...
by Evan Calder Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Shard Cinema tells an expansive story of how moving images have changed in the last three decades and how they changed us along with them, rewiring the ways we watch, fight, and navigate an unsteady world. With a range that spans film, games, software, architecture, and military technologies, the...
The Psychopath Factory
How Capitalism Organizes Empathy
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
The Psychopath Factory: How Capitalism Organizes Empathy examines how the requirements, stimuli, affects and environments of work condition our empathy. In some cases, work calls for no empathy – characters who don’t blink or flinch in the face of danger nor crack under pressure. In other cases,...
Shooting Hipsters
Rethinking Dissent in the Age of PR
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
In an age of PR, public protest and other forms of dissent have lost their meaning and impact. The intense media interest in rioting and political violence, as well as an existing obsession with youth culture, have led to an over-saturation and misrepresentation of what these movements are about....
Infinite Resignation
On Pessimism
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
A collection of aphorisms, fragments, and observations on philosophy and pessimism.
Composed of aphorisms, fragments, and observations both philosophical and personal, Eugene Thacker’s Infinite Resignation traces the contours of pessimism, caught as it is between a philosophical position...