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An Impatient Life
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
A philosopher and activist, eager to live according to ideals forged in study and discussion, Daniel Bensaïd was a man deeply entrenched in both the French and the international left. Raised in a staunchly red neighbourhood of Toulouse, where his family owned a bistro, he grew to be France’s leading...
by Rebecca Solnit
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism and tourism. Enriched by...
Hollow City
The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Reporting from the front lines of gentrification in San Francisco, Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg sound a warning bell to all urban residents. Wealth is just as capable of ravaging cities as poverty.
Desire Unlimited
The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
In the last decade, Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar has grown from critical darling of the
film circuit scene to mainstream success. Frequently comic, often deadly serious, always
visually glorious, his recent films range from the Academy Award–winning drama Talk to
Her to the 2011 horror film The...
Atlas of Emotion
Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
An award-winning cultural history of how we experience the world through art, film and architecture
Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavor to map the cultural terrain of spatio-visual arts. In an evocative blend of words and pictures, Giuliana Bruno emphasizes the connections between...
Imagined Communities
Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2006
The world-famous work on the origins and development of nationalism
The full magnitude of Benedict Anderson’s intellectual achievement is still being appreciated and debated. Imagined Communities remains the most influential book on the origins of nationalism, filling the vacuum that previously...
The Intellectual and His People
Staging the People Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Following the previous volume of essays by Jacques Rancière from the 1970s, Staging the People: The Proletarian and His Double, this second collection focuses on the ways in which radical philosophers understand the people they profess to speak for. The Intellectual and His People engages in an incisive...
Staging the People
The Proletarian and His Double
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
These essays from the 1970s mark the inception of the distinctive project that Jacques Rancière has pursued across forty years, with four interwoven themes: the study of working-class identity, of its philosophical interpretation, of “heretical” knowledge and of the relationship between work...
The Spectacle of Disintegration
Situationist Passages out of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Following his acclaimed history of the Situationist International, The Beach Beneath the Street, McKenzie Wark continues the SI’s story, charting its post-sixties legacy and putting the late work of the Situationists in a broader, deeper context. He uncovers a contemporary relevance and searching...
Noise Uprising
The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
A radically new reading of the origins of recorded music
Noise Uprising brings to life the moment and sounds of a cultural revolution. Between the development of electrical recording in 1925 and the outset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, the soundscape of modern times unfolded in...
Development Arrested
The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Development Arrested is a major reinterpretation of the two-centuries-old conflict between the African Americans and planters in the Mississippi Delta. In a definitive study of the history and social structures of the plantation system, Clyde Woods examines both planter domination of politics and...
The Leveller Revolution
Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640-1650
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The gripping story of the Levellers, the radical movement at the heart of the English Revolution
The Levellers, formed out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of democracy. In this thrilling narrative, John Rees brings...
Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism
Radical Politics After Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
This volume offers a profound analysis of post-socialist economic and political transformation in the Balkans, involving deeply unequal societies and oligarchical “democracies.” The contributions deconstruct the persistent imaginary of the Balkans, pervasive among outsiders to the region, who...
Weimar in Exile
The Antifascist Emigration in Europe and America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
A magisterial history of the artists and writers who left Weimar when the Nazis came to power
In 1933 thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, militants and other opponents of the Nazi regime fled Germany. They were, in the words of Heinrich Mann, “the best of Germany,” refusing to...