Verso Books: 696 books
The City
London and the Global Power of Finance
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Radical insider’s account of how the city of London really works
The City, as London’s financial centre is known, is the world’s biggest international banking and foreign exchange market, shaping the development of global capital. It is also, as this groundbreaking book reveals, a crucial...
The Happiness Industry
How the Government and Big Business Sold us Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
In winter 2014, a Tibetan monk lectured the world leaders gathered at Davos on the importance of Happiness. The recent DSM-5, the manual of all diagnosable mental illnesses, for the first time included shyness and grief as treatable diseases. Happiness has become the biggest idea of our age, a new...
Operation Ajax
The Story of the CIA Coup that Remade the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2020
Graphic true-life spy thriller about the CIA mission that overthrew Iran’s democracy
The year is 1953. As the value of oil skyrockets, global power brokers begin to take interest in the political regimes of the Middle East. British agents have controlled Iranian oil exports for a generation,...
Masks Of Anarchy
The History Of A Radical Poem, From Percy Shelley To The Triangle Factory Fire
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Masks of Anarchy tells the extraordinary story of Percy Shelley’s poem “The Masque
of Anarchy,” from its conception in Italy and suppression in England to the moment it became a
catalyst for protest among New York City workers a century later.
Shelley penned the poem in 1819, after hearing...
Che
A Graphic Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
The classic graphic biography of Che Guevara—the most iconic revolutionary of the twentieth century
This dramatic and extensively researched book breathes new life into the story of Ernesto “Che” Guevara. It portrays his revolutionary struggle through the appropriate medium of the underground...
Heroes
Mass Murder and Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? In his most unsettling book to date, Franco “Bifo” Berardi embarks on an exhilarating journey through philosophy, psychoanalysis and current events, searching for the social roots of the mental malaise of our age.
Spanning an...
Cities Under Siege
The New Military Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political violence through the sites, spaces, infrastructure and symbols of the world’s rapidly expanding metropolitan...
Artificial Hells
Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Around the world, the champions of this form of expression are numerous,...
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy
The Many Faces of Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Here is the ultimate book on the worldwide movement of hackers, pranksters, and activists that operates under the non-name Anonymous, by the writer the Huffington Post says “knows all of Anonymous’ deepest, darkest secrets.”
Half a dozen years ago, anthropologist Gabriella Coleman set...
by Moshe Lewin
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a classic history of the Soviet era, from 1917 to its fall
One hundred years after the Russian Revolution the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary, yet tragic, attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for...
by Slavoj Zizek
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, London, and Athens took to the streets in pursuit of emancipation, obscure destructive fantasies inspired the world’s racist populists in places as far...
In Defense of Housing
The Politics of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it?
Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Pro fit has become more important...
Less Than Nothing
Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As a consequence, Hegel’s absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact that he is the defining philosopher of the historical transition...
Utopia or Bust
A Guide to the Present Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
After the financial crash and the great recession, the media rediscovered Karl Marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that capitalism can be questioned.
But in spite of the publicity, the main paths of contemporary critical thought have gone unexplored
outside of the academy. Benjamin Kunkel’s...