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Radical Technologies
The Design of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A field manual to the technologies that are transforming our lives
Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider...
Our History Is the Future
Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life”
In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous...
The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2
The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, Martin Luther King outlined a dream of an America where people would not be judged by the color of their skin. That dream has yet to be realized, but some three centuries ago it was a reality. Back then, neither social practice nor law recognized any special...
October
The Story of the Russian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Award-winning author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside down
On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, China Miéville tells the extraordinary story of this pivotal moment in history.
In February of 1917 Russia was a backwards, autocratic monarchy,...
The Invention of Paris
A History in Footsteps
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
The Invention of Paris is a tour through the streets and history of the French capital under the guidance of radical Parisian author and publisher Eric Hazan.
Hazan reveals a city whose squares echo with the riots, rebellions and revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Combining...
A Walk Through Paris
A Radical Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
A walker’s guide to Paris, taking us through its past, present and possible futures
Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed Invention of Paris, takes the reader on a walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, roughly following the meridian that divides Paris into east and west, and passing such familiar...
The Perpetual Guest
Art in the Unfinished Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Leading art critic explores the connections between art’s past and present
Contemporary art sometimes pretends to have made a clean break with history. In The Perpetual Guest, poet and critic Barry Schwabsky demonstrates that any robust understanding of art’s present must also account for...
Bad New Days
Art, Criticism, Emergency
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
One of the world’s leading art theorists dissects a quarter century of artistic practice
Bad New Days examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years, exploring their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency instilled...
by Nicolas Bourriaud
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Author of the influential Relational Aesthetics examines the dynamics of ideology
Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art—the exform.
He argues that the great theoretical battles...
How Will Capitalism End?
Essays on a Failing System
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The provocative political thinker asks if it will be with a bang or a whimper
After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the money economy has all but evaporated.
In...
Ruling The Void
The Hollowing Of Western Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
In the long-established democracies of Western Europe, electoral turnouts are in decline, membership is shrinking in the major parties, and those who remain loyal partisans are sapped of enthusiasm. Peter Mair’s new book weighs the impact of these changes, which together show that, after a century...
Corbyn
The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
How Jeremy Corbyn, the radical left candidate for the Labour leadership, won twice—and won big
In the 2017 general election, Jeremy Corbyn pulled off an historic upset, attracting the biggest increase in the Labour vote since 1945. It was another reversal of expectations for the mainstream...
Bloody Nasty People
The Rise of Britain's Far Right
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
The past decade in the UK saw the rise of the British National Party, the country’s most successful ever far-right political movement, and the emergence of the anti-Islamic English Defence League. Taking aim at asylum seekers, Muslims, ‘enforced multiculturalism’ and benefit ‘scroungers’,...
Scattered Sand
The Story of China's Rural Migrants
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce—”scattered sand,” in Chinese...