Repeater imprint: 63 books
Zombie University
Thinking Under Control
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
In this full-blooded attack on the institutions of higher education, Sinéad Murphy shows the neoliberal university for what it really is: a zombie institution, churning out generations of the thinking dead.
What if we have lost the ability to think straight? And what if this is why the shocking...
The Unholy Land
An Unconventional Guide to Israel
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The essays in this ambitious volume explore the invisible walls that divide the modern state of Israel. Part hipster travelogue, part from-the-ground-up look at Israeli politics, Unholy Land is a sometimes irreverent, sometimes moving collection from a cache of Israel’s most talented young writers.
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Strange Hate
Antisemitism, Racism and the Limits of Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Keith Kahn-Harris argues that the controversy over antisemitism today is a symptom of a growing "selectivity" in anti-racism caused by a failure to engage with the challenges that diverse societies pose.
How did antisemitism get so strange? How did hate become so clouded in controversy?...
by Owen Hatherley
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Nearly thirty years after the fall of the USSR, the word "Soviet" should be as meaningless by now as "Hapsburg" or "Hohenzollern". Strangely, though, it endures, as places both inside and outside the former Soviet Union define themselves for or against what happened when...
Maurice El Médioni - A Memoir
From Oran to Marseilles (1936-1990)
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Undoubtedly great music outlives the musicians who create it. But octogenarian greats such as John Lee Hooker or Cuba's Buena Vista Social Club outlive the initial popularity of their musical genre and then decades later it is their late careers that make the music live on and catch fire to new generations,...
Decolonial Daughter
Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
A Trinidadian-American writer and activist explores motherhood, migration, identity, nationhood and how it relates to land, imprisonment, and genocide for Black and Indigenous peoples.
Having moved to Copenhagen, Denmark from Brooklyn over 18 years ago, Brown attempts to contextualise her and...
Go the Way Your Blood Beats
On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Using bisexuality as a frame, Go the Way Your Blood Beats questions the division of sexuality into straight and gay, in a timely exploration of the complex histories and psychologies of human desire.
A challenge to the idea that sexuality can either ever be fully known or neatly categorised,...
Advertising Revolution
The Story of a Song, from Beatles Hit to Nike Slogan
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
The story of "Revolution" by the Beatles, from its origin as a protest song of the 1960s, to it becoming the musical backdrop for one of the most famous, influential, and controversial adverts of all time.
In 1987, Nike released their new sixty-second commercial for Air shoes—and...
by Adrian Nathan West
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Pornography keeps getting more extreme. Manufacturers, defenders and consumers of porn rely on a mix of wilful ignorance and bad faith to avoid serious discussion. When we do talk about violence against women in the porn world, the debate all too often becomes technical, complicated by legalities...
by Charles Johns
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Taking their cue from the work of Charles Johns, who has argued that, far from being an ailment, neurosis is in fact the dominant condition of our society today, an array of thinkers have gathered in The Neurotic Turn to address the question: what can ‘neurosis’ tell us about our current social...
Specters of Revolt
On the Intellect of Insurrection and Philosophy from Below
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
In 1848, Karl Marx declared that a communist specter was haunting Europe. In 1994, Jacques Derrida considered how the spectre of Marx would haunt the post-Cold War world. In Specters of Revolt, Gilman-Opalsky argues that the world is haunted by revolt, by the possibility of events that interrupt and...
Regeneration Songs
Sounds of Investment and Loss in East London
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Twenty-seven leading artists, writers and academics come together to tackle one of the most drastic urban regeneration programmes in world history - the "Regeneration Supernova" of East London.
The impact of global capital and foreign investment on local communities is being felt...
From a Whisper to a Shout
How Social Media Activism Is Challenging Abortion Stigma
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Abortion remains legal in the US, but access has been slowly eroded since prohibition was ruled unconstitutional nearly fifty years ago. Simultaneously abortion remains culturally stigmatised – it is kept secret and presumed shameful. But feminist activists are working to increase access and challenge...
by Steve Finbow
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Notes from the Sick Room is an investigation into the connections between physical illness and creativity. Although there are a number of books investigating mental illness and creativity, there are very few that concentrate on physical illness - cancer, HIV, tuberculosis and disabilities caused by...