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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...
by Rosa Luxemburg
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
The most comprehensive collection of letters by Rosa Luxemburg ever published in English, this book includes 190 letters written to leading figures in the European and international labor and socialist movements––Leo Jogiches, Karl Kautsky, Clara Zetkin and Karl Liebknecht––who were among...
Revolutionary Yiddishland
A History of Jewish Radicalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Recovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish tradition
Jewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto; they were in the vanguard of those resisting Franco and the Nazis. They originated in Yiddishland, a vast expanse of Eastern Europe...
by Jose Saramago
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
The Lives of Things collects José Saramago’s early experiments with the short story form, attesting to the young novelist’s imaginative power and incomparable skill in elaborating the most extravagant fantasies. Combining bitter satire, outrageous parody and Kafkaesque hallucinations, these stories...
by Valerie Solanas
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Classic radical feminist statement from the woman who shot Andy Warhol
“Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate...
by Slavoj Zizek
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
Billions of dollars have been hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis?
In this take-no-prisoners analysis, Slavoj iek...
An American Utopia
Dual Power and the Universal Army
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Controversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writers
Fredric Jameson’s pathbreaking essay “An American Utopia” radically questions standard leftist notions of what constitutes an emancipated society. Advocated here are—among other things—universal conscription,...