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We Want Everything
It was the Autumn of 1969, and Italy exploded. Across the north of the country, factory workers stormed out on strike, demanding better pay and...
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Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer...
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Precarious Life
In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of post-9/11 America to the current US policies...
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Aesthetics and Politics
No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from...
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The Politics of Friendship
Jacques Derrida was one of most influential philosophers of the 20th century. In The Politics of Friendship he explores the idea of friendship and...
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The Force of Nonviolence The Ethical in the Political
Judith Butler’s new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it...
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Futurability
A comprehensive philosophy of contemporary life and politics, by one of the sharpest critics of the presentWe live in an age of impotence. Stuck...
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Staging the People
These essays from the 1970s mark the inception of the distinctive project that Jacques Ranci re has pursued across forty years, with four interwoven...
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How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century
Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values-equality and...
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Empire of Borders
The United States is outsourcing its border patrol abroad—and essentially expanding its borders in the process.
The twenty-first century has...
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For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign
A material analysis of the sign which deepens Marx’s critique of political economy for spectacular times.
This classic work from the defining...
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Future Histories
A highly engaging tour through history in the service of emancipating our digital tomorrow.
When we talk about technology we always talk about the...
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Savage Messiah
The acclaimed art fanzine’s psychogeographic drifts through a ruined city.
Savage Messiah collects the entire set of Laura...
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New Dark Age
How the Information Age makes the world more incomprehensible.
As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of...
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Fully Automated Luxury Communism
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society—beyond work, scarcity and capitalism
In the twenty-first century, new technologies should...
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Poets of the Chinese Revolution
How poetry and revolution meshed in Red China.
The Chinese Revolution was a complex and protracted event staged by competing groups and...
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Afterlives of Chinese Communism
Seventy years after the Chinese Revolution of 1949, what remains of Mao’s communist legacy?
Afterlives of Chinese Communism comprises essays...
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The New Populism
A crisp, trenchant dissection of populism today.
Syriza, Trump, Podemos, and Brexit—these and other electoral earthquakes of recent years have...
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In the Mind But Not From There
Artists and critics explore the concept of Real Abstraction to help understand contemporary cultural production.
In the Mind But Not From There:...
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Promise of a Dream
A sparkling portrait of a time when women were breaking all the rules about sex, politics and their place in the world.
At the beginning of the...
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Flora Tristan
Flora Tristan was one of the first women radicals to draw clear connections between the plight of disaffected workers and powerless women. Active in...
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Landscapes: John Berger on Art
In this brilliant collection of diverse works essays, short stories, poems, translations which spans a lifetime's engagement with art, John Berger...
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Ten Myths About Israel
In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines...
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