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Scratching the Surface : Posties, Privatisation and Strikes in the Royal Mail | [
"Phil Chadwick"
] | The story of those in the frontline of change in the Royal Mail. | Since 2000, there has been an ideologically driven experiment carried out in the UK to change the postal service provided by Royal Mail, to one beholden to the mantra of competition, profit and privatisation. This is the story of those in the frontline of change. | Since 2000, there has been an ideologically driven experiment carried out in the UK to change the postal service provided by Royal Mail, to one beholden to the mantra of competition, profit and privatisation. This is the story of those in the frontline of change. | 0 | [] |
Seen and Not Seen | [
"Jasun Horsley"
] | If movies and popular culture shape us from an early age, how do we separate the real from the imaginary? | Popular culture mirrors the human soul and it can't lie about the state it is in—which is what makes it an essential guide on the quest for self-knowledge. Seen and Not Seen: Confessions of a Movie Autist is a series of autobiographical explorations which slowly uncover the author's secret life to himself. Revisiting h... | Popular culture mirrors the human soul and it can't lie about the state it is in—which is what makes it an essential guide on the quest for self-knowledge. Seen and Not Seen: Confessions of a Movie Autist is a series of autobiographical explorations which slowly uncover the author's secret life to himself. Revisiting h... | 1 | [
"\"Horsley's book is indeed a confession, full of the kind of frank talk one would expect in a tale touted as confessional. In fact, in places the book is jaw-dropping in its raw honesty and relentless self-critical insight. Here is a writer not the least interested in marrying his auteur self to a poseur self. . .... |
Selling Our Death Masks | [
"Yesenia Barragan"
] | Are we pawning our golden immortality for a fistful of cash? | A radical historical ethnography on the meaning of a fundamentally new physical landscape of our age of austerity: cash-for-gold shops that numerically exploded in the wake of the worst economic crisis of our times. | A radical historical ethnography on the meaning of a fundamentally new physical landscape of our age of austerity: cash-for-gold shops that numerically exploded in the wake of the worst economic crisis of our times. | 3 | [
"It is not easy to deal with a curse as old as mankind, to keep it at arms’ length and, if possible, transform its ominous power into healing. Yet this is what Yesenia Barragan achieves—to the extent possible—in her fast-paced brilliant, and exceedingly original history of gold and its roller coastering life under ... |
Send Them Victorious | [
"David Stubbs"
] | As another World Cup campaign is upon us, England expects, none more so than the Wing Commander, whose past reports on England matches magnificently capture the John Bull spirit of fevered xenophobia and deluded optimism. | Since 2006, under the guise of the Wing Commander, a somewhat xenophobic veteran of numerous campaigns including the Boer War, David Stubbs has written reports on every major England fixture. These lay stress just not on the inestimable virtues of the England team, who merely by being English hold an advantage over the... | Since 2006, under the guise of the Wing Commander, a somewhat xenophobic veteran of numerous campaigns including the Boer War, David Stubbs has written reports on every major England fixture. These lay stress just not on the inestimable virtues of the England team, who merely by being English hold an advantage over the... | 6 | [
"Football is all too often a serious business, so for extreme light relief turn to David Stubbs’ bug-eyed, handlebar-moustached match reporter of England internationals – a retired wing commander and Boer War veteran who believes firmly in England, Empire, flogging his manservant, and the virtues of John Terry’s fi... |
Serf's Journal, A | [
"Terry Tapp"
] | The Story of the United States' Longest Wildcat Strike. | Recalling the JeffBoat incident of 2001, A Serf's Journal is Terry Tapp's formidable first-hand account of American workers in Jeffersonville, Indiana, as they fought a multinational company and their corrupt union to stage the longest wildcat strike in US history. | Recalling the JeffBoat incident of 2001, A Serf's Journal is Terry Tapp's formidable first-hand account of American workers in Jeffersonville, Indiana, as they fought a multinational company and their corrupt union to stage the longest wildcat strike in US history. | 5 | [
"Subtitled “The story of the United States’ longest wildcat strike”, A serf’s journal depicts the months leading up to, as well as the undertaking of, the strike at JeffBoat in Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 2001, through the eyes of welder Terry Tapp.\n\nSetting the scene with his initial hiring at the company and go... |
Serial Agencies | [
"Frank Kelleter"
] | Serial Agencies investigates how public and academic reactions to The Wire have contributed to the narrative's serial evolution and cultural performance | Serial Agencies investigates how public and academic reactions to the TV show "The Wire" have contributed to the narrative's serial evolution and cultural performance. | Serial Agencies investigates how public and academic reactions to the TV show "The Wire" have contributed to the narrative's serial evolution and cultural performance. | 4 | [
"Frank Kelleter's Serial Agencies is sharp, savvy, and sophisticated, offering a fresh angle of vision on a much-discussed TV drama. This is a must-read book for fans of The Wire as well as anyone interested in the relations between actor-network-theory and media studies. ~ Rita Felski, University of Virginia, auth... |
Serkeftin | [
"Marcel Cartier"
] | Serkeftin: A Narrative of the Rojava Revolution takes a first-hand look at the complex process of grassroots democracy and women’s liberation that is radically altering life in northern Syria’s predominately Kurdish areas. | In the Spring of 2017, activist, journalist and hip-hop artist Marcel Cartier was given exclusive access to the structures set up in the predominately Kurdish areas in northern Syria. Over the course of more than a month, Cartier travelled across the terrain known as Rojava, experiencing the radical grassroots revoluti... | In the Spring of 2017, activist, journalist and hip-hop artist Marcel Cartier was given exclusive access to the structures set up in the predominately Kurdish areas in northern Syria. Over the course of more than a month, Cartier travelled across the terrain known as Rojava, experiencing the radical grassroots revoluti... | 1 | [
"In this extremely enthusiastic political travelogue, Cartier, a communist hip-hop artist and journalist, traveled with an international delegation to the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (popularly known as Rojava, where Kurds have established an autonomous region) to learn from the revolutionaries. In Roja... |
Shakespeare for Snowflakes | [
"Ian Burrows"
] | An examination of how dramatists including Shakespeare, Sarah Kane and Samuel Beckett manipulated actors' bodies for laughter or sympathy, discussed in relation to the social construction of ‘snowflake culture’ as a 21st century phenomenon. | Drawing on plays by Shakespeare, Sarah Kane, Sophocles, Samuel Beckett, and others, this book examines the ways in which these dramatists manipulated the actor’s body to demand laughter and/or sympathy. Ian Burrows shows how these strategies can be thought about beyond the stage-space: in the classroom, in the media, a... | Drawing on plays by Shakespeare, Sarah Kane, Sophocles, Samuel Beckett, and others, this book examines the ways in which these dramatists manipulated the actor’s body to demand laughter and/or sympathy. Ian Burrows shows how these strategies can be thought about beyond the stage-space: in the classroom, in the media, a... | 4 | [
"Shakespeare for Snowflakes is a provocative book, and a brave, thoughtful attempt to reclaim the meaning and context of those trigger warnings. It makes intriguing connections between contemporary conservative anxieties and the ontology of spectatorship. It takes real delight in physical comedy; it ranges from cus... |
Shaping for Mediocrity | [
"David Harvie"
] | An insider account of the struggle for the soul of the university. | In 2021, as part of a programme called Shaping for Excellence, bosses at the University of Leicester made redundant numerous scholars in what was simultaneously an attack on academic freedom and trade union organisation. The authors of Shaping for Mediocrity not only had front-row seats in the campaign against these ma... | In 2021, as part of a programme called Shaping for Excellence, bosses at the University of Leicester made redundant numerous scholars in what was simultaneously an attack on academic freedom and trade union organisation. The authors of Shaping for Mediocrity not only had front-row seats in the campaign against these ma... | 8 | [
"‘Do you think business schools should be helping to produce a low carbon, high inclusion, high democracy economy? Or should they be sacking academics who work towards these goals in order to produce a business-as-usual b-school that makes big profits? This urgent and beautifully written book shows why universities... |
Shooting the Moon | [
"Brian Willems"
] | The first book to examine the multiple and contradictory strategies for putting the moon on film. | Films about the moon show that even after the lunar landing of 1969 our celestial neighbor has lost none of its aptitude for being made of green cheese. In fact, as soon as you put the moon on screen it is lost. This is equally true for a wide range of moon films, including the theatricality of Méliès, the incredulity ... | Films about the moon show that even after the lunar landing of 1969 our celestial neighbor has lost none of its aptitude for being made of green cheese. In fact, as soon as you put the moon on screen it is lost. This is equally true for a wide range of moon films, including the theatricality of Méliès, the incredulity ... | 4 | [
"[Those who] engage with Willems’s scholarly theories will certainly view the moon and its representation in cinema from\n\na much more informed and opinionated perspective. Though thousands of miles away, our lunar neighbor feels within arm’s reach through Willems’s ardent, detailed analyses.\n\nKailyn Warpole ~ F... |
Slave States | [
"Yasin Kakande"
] | Enslavement, trafficking, sexual starvation. Abuse of workers in the Gulf Arab Region. | A stark expose of the enslavement, trafficking, sexual starvation and general abuse of workers in the Gulf Arab Region. | A stark expose of the enslavement, trafficking, sexual starvation and general abuse of workers in the Gulf Arab Region. | 4 | [
"..........Kakande reports on the terrible conditions and quandaries faced by Kafala proletarians from Pakistan, India, Ethiopia, Uganda, Indonesia, Bangladesh, the Philippines and the like. Many fall out of the system and continue illegally within the GCC as ‘runaways’ or escapees. Mass deportations occur. Strikes... |
Slime Dynamics | [
"Ben Woodard"
] | Through speculative philosophy and lurid cultural objects, Slime Dynamics explores the muck of life as a darkly vitalistic substance. | Despite humanity's gradual ascent from clustered pools of it, slime is more often than not relegated to a mere residue—the trail of a verminous life form, the trace of decomposition, or an entertaining synthetic material—thereby leaving its generative and mutative associations with life neatly removed from the human sp... | Despite humanity's gradual ascent from clustered pools of it, slime is more often than not relegated to a mere residue—the trail of a verminous life form, the trace of decomposition, or an entertaining synthetic material—thereby leaving its generative and mutative associations with life neatly removed from the human sp... | 0 | [] |
Small Gods | [
"Alex Quicho"
] | A lucid, unexpected look at how the drone imports its bloodied legacy into contemporary art and everyday life. | Small Gods deconstructs the mythology of the drone: as soothing sound, aerial spy, and killing machine. When we say 'drone technology,' we can mean the tanpura, a plucked-string instrument originating in 16th century India, or the Gorgon Stare, an aerial surveillance technology designed by the US military - and evoke c... | Small Gods deconstructs the mythology of the drone: as soothing sound, aerial spy, and killing machine. When we say 'drone technology,' we can mean the tanpura, a plucked-string instrument originating in 16th century India, or the Gorgon Stare, an aerial surveillance technology designed by the US military - and evoke c... | 3 | [
"Surprising, delightful, engrossing, disturbing, and ultimately inspiring, Small Gods is a thoughtful and and urgent meditation on the ways that life is being re-constituted by technology. Alex Quicho is a fiercely talented young writer who nestles unexpected insights into a well-researched study of contemporary ar... |
Small Towns, Austere Times | [
"Steve Hanson"
] | This book explores small town austere Britain. | This book explores small town austere Britain.
The text argues for a return to both dialectical thinking and politicized community research, in light of the current 'austere' landscape, in order to intellectually militate against centre-right think tanks. It also urges for a kind of epistemological anarchism, which re... | This book explores small town austere Britain.
The text argues for a return to both dialectical thinking and politicized community research, in light of the current 'austere' landscape, in order to intellectually militate against centre-right think tanks. It also urges for a kind of epistemological anarchism, which re... | 1 | [
"In his 'Little poems in prose' Baudelaire talks about feeling drunk on the promiscuity of the crowds on the Paris boulevards. There would soon be a mini-genre in painting: the rag-picker, who lived in a no-man's land at the edge of the city which doesn't immediately become countryside. Sociology had to be invented... |
Society Elsewhere | [
"Francis Sanzaro, Ph.D."
] | The gravest threat to humanity in this century will not come from war, disease, overpopulation or the environment, but from boredom and uselessness. | The biggest political and economic issue of the 21st and 22nd centuries will not be food, war, overpopulation, or the environment, but boredom and uselessness. The biggest problem will be figuring out how to manage people’s emotional lives in a time when their intelligence, brains and consciousness will become irreleva... | The biggest political and economic issue of the 21st and 22nd centuries will not be food, war, overpopulation, or the environment, but boredom and uselessness. The biggest problem will be figuring out how to manage people’s emotional lives in a time when their intelligence, brains and consciousness will become irreleva... | 1 | [
"\"Francis Sanzaro's book is a welcome counter-narrative to all the 'just so' stories out there about how computers, especially with the acceleration of artificial intelligence, not only explain the nature of human cognition but will inevitably surpass it. The book is a masterful threading of actual research and da... |
Speculative Annihilationism | [
"Matt Rosen"
] | A presentation of new archaeological ontology in light of our age of extinctions. | If Levinas and Negarestani raised a child enchanted by the dark, then this is his debut. In this book, Rosen argues that current archaeological theoretic approaches are not up to the task of adequately theorizing exhumation in our present age of extinctions. Speculative Annihilationism attempts to “think thought’s exti... | If Levinas and Negarestani raised a child enchanted by the dark, then this is his debut. In this book, Rosen argues that current archaeological theoretic approaches are not up to the task of adequately theorizing exhumation in our present age of extinctions. Speculative Annihilationism attempts to “think thought’s exti... | 4 | [
"Too often speculative philosophies forget that the thought of extinction invariably opens onto the extinction of thought, and that this may very well be what thinking is. Rosen's book takes up this insight and extends it, levelling up Levinas beyond the staid traditions of phenomenology and ethics into which his w... |
Starry Speculative Corpse | [
"Eugene Thacker"
] | Philosophy meets horror against the backdrop of an indifferent, unhuman cosmos. | Could it be that the more we know about the world, the less we understand it? Could it be that, while everything has been explained, nothing has meaning?
Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Eugene Thacker explores these and other issues in Starry Speculative Corpse. But instead of usi... | Could it be that the more we know about the world, the less we understand it? Could it be that, while everything has been explained, nothing has meaning?
Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Eugene Thacker explores these and other issues in Starry Speculative Corpse. But instead of usi... | 1 | [
"In showing that it can sustain a lucid conversation with philosophy, Thacker's writing also treats horror literature as literature. Students of both philosophy and horror will find surprising inter-illuminations in these three books.\n\n~ Michael Cisco, author of The Divinity Student"
] |
Stay Alive | [
"Michael Harris"
] | Stay Alive reveals the hidden revolution at the heart of The Hunger Games and what it means for our age of defiant youth-led revolt. | When The Hunger Games series began in 2008, many commentators lumped it in with other young adult genre fiction. But The Hunger Games was always more political. It’s since become the defining story for a generation that’s grown up with economic crisis and never ending war. An uber-rich ruling class gorge themselves in ... | When The Hunger Games series began in 2008, many commentators lumped it in with other young adult genre fiction. But The Hunger Games was always more political. It’s since become the defining story for a generation that’s grown up with economic crisis and never ending war. An uber-rich ruling class gorge themselves in ... | 4 | [
"\"In Stay Alive, Michael Harris demonstrates how neoliberal capitalism is conspiring to create a real-life dystopia where the odds only ever favor the elite. Using The Hunger Games to illuminate a series of social forces that are behind problems such as class inequality and climate change, Harris shows how a growi... |
Stepp'd in Blood | [
"Andrew Wallis"
] | Twenty-five years on from the heinous events, Andrew Wallis uncovers the life and crimes of the perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsi. | The 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi was the signature moral horror of the late 20th century. Andrew Wallis reveals, for the first time, the personal lives and crimes of the family group (‘Akazu’) that destroyed their country and left one million dead. Wallis’ meticulous research uncovers a broad landscape of te... | The 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi was the signature moral horror of the late 20th century. Andrew Wallis reveals, for the first time, the personal lives and crimes of the family group (‘Akazu’) that destroyed their country and left one million dead. Wallis’ meticulous research uncovers a broad landscape of te... | 7 | [
"An essential read for anyone trying to understand how the genocide against the Tutsi came about. Andrew Wallis provides a compelling analysis of the critical role played by a core group of individuals who decided the extermination of a million people was preferable to losing their power, wealth and position. He ca... |
Strangled | [
"Phil Knight"
] | If the Sex Pistols and The Clash represented punk's sacred, then The Stranglers were its profane. Strangled sets out to explain why discussion of this most taboo of bands has for so long been silenced-a collective cultural Omerta. | The Stranglers occupy a paradoxical position within the history of popular music. Although major artists within the punk and new-wave movements, their contribution to those genres has been effectively quarantined by subsequent critical and historical analyses. They are somehow "outside" the realm of what responsible ac... | The Stranglers occupy a paradoxical position within the history of popular music. Although major artists within the punk and new-wave movements, their contribution to those genres has been effectively quarantined by subsequent critical and historical analyses. They are somehow "outside" the realm of what responsible ac... | 3 | [
"The precarious existence in a band is vividly described in this book from independent British publisher Zero Books.\n\n~ Gesellschaft + Kultur, May 2015",
"I finished STRANGLED at three o'clock this morning. Best book, in any genre, I've read in years. A brilliantly unique dissection of postwar Western decline a... |
Student as Producer | [
"Mike Neary"
] | Student as Producer brings critical theory to life in a contribution to the dynamic, emerging genre of critical higher education studies. It is for students and teachers who want to change the world through critical pedagogy and popular education. | Mike Neary's account finds itself set in a particular moment of time: between the student protests and urban riots that erupted in England in 2010-2011 and the 2017 General Election, during which students and young people played a significant role by protesting the politics of austerity and by supporting the politics o... | Mike Neary's account finds itself set in a particular moment of time: between the student protests and urban riots that erupted in England in 2010-2011 and the 2017 General Election, during which students and young people played a significant role by protesting the politics of austerity and by supporting the politics o... | 2 | [
"Thoughtful and thought-provoking, \"Student as Producer: How do Revolutionary Teachers Teach?\" is an inherently interesting and occasionally iconoclastic read that will have particular appeal for readers with an interest in higher and continuing education, the philosophy and social aspects of education, Communism... |
Superactually | [
"Chuk Moran"
] | A bunch of tiny essays on life after irony, this is a book to help smart people feel hip and hip people feel smart. | To speak ironically is to speak just for the effect. To speak superactually is to do something with words and take responsibility for that action. This is a book of short, provocative essays. Some are on fun topics in pop culture (hackers, dubstep, cat memes, thinking green, parkour, and the girl next door). Others are... | To speak ironically is to speak just for the effect. To speak superactually is to do something with words and take responsibility for that action. This is a book of short, provocative essays. Some are on fun topics in pop culture (hackers, dubstep, cat memes, thinking green, parkour, and the girl next door). Others are... | 2 | [
"Theory today is not dead, but perhaps it should be euthanized. We can no longer hear signal over the noise of its predictable wheeze, its message long since shrouded by an illness borne long ago from youthful indulgences. Chucking aside this death mask, Moran asks, what if theory arose not from the obsessive study... |
Surrealpolitik | [
"John Schoneboom"
] | Dream, myth, delusion, and reality collide in this surrealist navigation of the national security state. | Our times are not just weird, but literally surreal: we live in a paranoid, increasingly authoritarian culture in which the real, the presumed and the purported are indistinguishable strands of a dense hallucinatory web of mediated spectacles. Surrealpolitik takes up cultural theorist Mark Fisher’s challenge to expose ... | Our times are not just weird, but literally surreal: we live in a paranoid, increasingly authoritarian culture in which the real, the presumed and the purported are indistinguishable strands of a dense hallucinatory web of mediated spectacles. Surrealpolitik takes up cultural theorist Mark Fisher’s challenge to expose ... | 2 | [
"\"Amazing...A fierce, lucid intervention against the regime of an exclusionary 'realism' which, in its marginalization of the dreamlife, not only starves us with a deadly-dull aesthetics but forms a lid clamped on the imaginative urgencies required to fight our way into a post-capitalist, post-surveillance future.... |
Sweetening the Pill | [
"Holly Grigg-Spall"
] | Is it really true? Has contraception liberated or oppressed women? | Millions of healthy women take a powerful medication every day from their mid-teens to menopause - the Pill - but few know how this drug works or the potential side effects. Contrary to cultural myth, the birth-control pill impacts on every organ and function of the body, and yet most women do not even think of it as a... | Millions of healthy women take a powerful medication every day from their mid-teens to menopause - the Pill - but few know how this drug works or the potential side effects. Contrary to cultural myth, the birth-control pill impacts on every organ and function of the body, and yet most women do not even think of it as a... | 7 | [
"Thank you! Grigg-Spall hit the the mark with this book. The pill always struck me as wrong for a multitude of reasons. I am so glad so many younger women are coming around to see it as the toxin it is. Yes, this is one great book and well worth reading- and giving as a gift to our daughters, nieces, other female f... |
Take Hold of Our History | [
"Harvey J. Kaye"
] | A call to remember, redeem, and embrace the American radical tradition in favor of cultivating American historical memory and imagination, and making America radical once again. | The eighteen essays and speeches in Take Hold of Our History render a manifesto – a call to remember, redeem, and embrace the American radical story and tradition in favor of cultivating American historical memory and imagination and making America radical once again.
For too long we have allowed the right to hijack t... | The eighteen essays and speeches in Take Hold of Our History render a manifesto – a call to remember, redeem, and embrace the American radical story and tradition in favor of cultivating American historical memory and imagination and making America radical once again.
For too long we have allowed the right to hijack t... | 11 | [
"5 out of 5 stars: I've read all of Harvey Kaye's books and this one is just as energizing, just as thoughtful, and just as full of history and the vital things citizens of democracy need to know. In these dark times, if you're searching for a light run toward Prof. Kaye's books. ~ Sarah Sime, Amazon",
"5 out of ... |
Tentacles Longer Than Night | [
"Eugene Thacker"
] | Systematic, comprehensive exploration of the links between philosophy, religion, and the horror genre. | Our contemporary horror stories are written in a world where there seems little faith, lost hope, and no salvation. All that remains is the fragmentary and occasionally lyrical testimony of the human being struggling to confront its lack of reason for being in the vast cosmos. This is the terrain of the horror genre.
... | Our contemporary horror stories are written in a world where there seems little faith, lost hope, and no salvation. All that remains is the fragmentary and occasionally lyrical testimony of the human being struggling to confront its lack of reason for being in the vast cosmos. This is the terrain of the horror genre.
... | 1 | [
"\"In showing that it can sustain a lucid conversation with philosophy, Thacker's writing also treats horror literature as literature. Students of both philosophy and horror will find surprising inter-illuminations in these three books.\"\n\nMichael Cisco, author of The Divinity Student ~ Michael Cisco"
] |
That Existential Leap: a crime story | [
"Dolan Cummings"
] | A riveting novel that toys with the conventions of detective and gangster novels, giving them a sharp, philosophical twist. | Part bildungsroman and part psychological thriller, That Existential Leap is a novel of ideas about the struggle for self-realisation and belonging in the postmodern West.
Claudette Dasgupta is a thoughtful but unremarkable American teenager unenthusiastic about the prospect of college and a conventional life. When sh... | Part bildungsroman and part psychological thriller, That Existential Leap is a novel of ideas about the struggle for self-realisation and belonging in the postmodern West.
Claudette Dasgupta is a thoughtful but unremarkable American teenager unenthusiastic about the prospect of college and a conventional life. When sh... | 3 | [
"Dolan Cummings built his novel around a set of ideas. The prime virtue is individualism, the prime vice conformity. There are two stories — not stories, really, but idea vehicles — loosely connected. One is set in New York and features a narrator who named herself Claudette, and her boyfriend, Seigfried. The latte... |
That Option No Longer Exists | [
"John Medhurst"
] | The 1970s in Britain were years of immense social, cultural and political liberation aborted by a right-wing counter revolution. | It is time to look afresh at the 1970s. It was not a grey decade of decline, defeat and power blackouts. Bursting with cultural experimentation, sexual liberation and industrial militancy, the 1970s saw the ruling elites of Britain challenged at every level, most especially by a Labour left led by Tony Benn which aimed... | It is time to look afresh at the 1970s. It was not a grey decade of decline, defeat and power blackouts. Bursting with cultural experimentation, sexual liberation and industrial militancy, the 1970s saw the ruling elites of Britain challenged at every level, most especially by a Labour left led by Tony Benn which aimed... | 5 | [
"An excellent outline of the political landscape of the 1970s is a welcome antidote to cliched analyses of the decade, http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-618d-Myth-buster#.VIdWAtKDmSp ~ Steve Andrews, Morning Star",
"The 1970's were a turning point in a fiercely contested transition between the exhaustion of th... |
The Ultraviolet Catastrophe | [
"Susan Finlay"
] | A head-trip through capitalism’s final frontier. | Legal-high addict, gaming enthusiast, and principal shareholder of AstroLabs™, Lex Rameses, has recently discovered—and purchased—Proserpina: a planet with a near-identical ecosystem to Earth’s. Yet, although his humanistic, hipster pretensions mean that many people admire him, there is still one thing standing in the ... | Legal-high addict, gaming enthusiast, and principal shareholder of AstroLabs™, Lex Rameses, has recently discovered—and purchased—Proserpina: a planet with a near-identical ecosystem to Earth’s. Yet, although his humanistic, hipster pretensions mean that many people admire him, there is still one thing standing in the ... | 6 | [
"\"Nothing and no-one is spared by the acid tongue of this novel – not even the kitchen implements, not even you. A techno-utopia-takedown-turned-techno-curious-trip, The Ultraviolet Catastrophe is a jolt to the brain, a nightmare, a riot and, like everything Finlay does, impossible not to love.\" ~ Amber Husain, a... |
Thing, The | [
"Dylan Trigg"
] | Phenomenology redefined through body horror. | What is the human body? Both the most familiar and unfamiliar of things, the body is the centre of experience but also the site of a prehistory anterior to any experience. Alien and uncanny, this other side of the body has all too often been overlooked by phenomenology. In confronting this oversight, Dylan Trigg’s The ... | What is the human body? Both the most familiar and unfamiliar of things, the body is the centre of experience but also the site of a prehistory anterior to any experience. Alien and uncanny, this other side of the body has all too often been overlooked by phenomenology. In confronting this oversight, Dylan Trigg’s The ... | 2 | [
"Dylan Trigg's The Thing: A Phenomenology of Horror takes up the central challenge of contemporary philosophy - grappling with the world as indifferent to human constructs and concepts. Trigg's analysis suggests to us that phenomenology - too often regarded as a philosophy of the human par excellence - is uncannily... |
This Space of Writing | [
"Stephen Mitchelmore"
] | A renewed appreciation of the mystery and promise of writing. | What does 'literature' mean in our time? While names like Proust, Kafka and Woolf still stand for something, what that something actually is has become obscured by the claims of commerce and journalism. Perhaps a new form of attention is required. Stephen Mitchelmore began writing online in 1996 and became Britain's fi... | What does 'literature' mean in our time? While names like Proust, Kafka and Woolf still stand for something, what that something actually is has become obscured by the claims of commerce and journalism. Perhaps a new form of attention is required. Stephen Mitchelmore began writing online in 1996 and became Britain's fi... | 7 | [
"Stephen Mitchelmore has, over the years, in his blog, This Space, shown himself to be one of the acutest critics of contemporary writing anywhere. I do not always agree with him, but his work always makes me think and often helps me to understand.\n\n~ Gabriel Josipovici, author and critic",
"Stephen Mitchelmore... |
Thoughts on an Index Not Freely Given | [
"John Roberts"
] | In this unprecedented ‘fictive’ construction of the work of five imaginary artists from the 1980s, John Roberts produces an exhilarating theoretical encounter between futures past and futures present. | In this ambitious theoretical encounter with five imaginary artists from the 1980s, John Roberts produces a set of richly constructed artistic thought experiments. But in creating the work on the page these thought experiments are not thereby novelistic fictions. On the contrary, the fictiveness of each artist’s work a... | In this ambitious theoretical encounter with five imaginary artists from the 1980s, John Roberts produces a set of richly constructed artistic thought experiments. But in creating the work on the page these thought experiments are not thereby novelistic fictions. On the contrary, the fictiveness of each artist’s work a... | 0 | [] |
Time's Lie | [
"Leo Cookman"
] | Time's Lie helps decode how news and media have changed drastically since 2016 and examines the polarisation of the Left, the Right and the fight to control the Narrative. | Why are facts and statistics disparaged and dismissed, now more than ever? Why do people trust 'fake news'? If we have 'had enough of experts' who should we listen to? Rather than the possible collapse of modern society, could this be an opportunity to look at not just society but our own lives in a different way? Whoe... | Why are facts and statistics disparaged and dismissed, now more than ever? Why do people trust 'fake news'? If we have 'had enough of experts' who should we listen to? Rather than the possible collapse of modern society, could this be an opportunity to look at not just society but our own lives in a different way? Whoe... | 3 | [
"Key among the multiple functions of narrative in our lives, Cookman says — literary narrative is not his prime concern, it should be pointed out — are the organisation of reality so as to make it comprehensible, the construction of identity, contextualisation of ourselves in society, a way of relating to others, a... |
Too Fat to go to the Moon | [
"Rob McCleary"
] | 2030; America is broke. When NASA is forced to raffle off a trip to outer space the ticket is won by a guy who is so fat he can’t make it out of his own house... | In 2030 America is broke. When NASA is forced to raffle off a trip to outer space and the orbiting Houston Astrodome, Empire State Building and Statue of Liberty, the ticket is won by a guy from Cleveland who is so fat he can’t make it out of his own house, let alone get crammed in a rocket ship. Instead he auctions th... | In 2030 America is broke. When NASA is forced to raffle off a trip to outer space and the orbiting Houston Astrodome, Empire State Building and Statue of Liberty, the ticket is won by a guy from Cleveland who is so fat he can’t make it out of his own house, let alone get crammed in a rocket ship. Instead he auctions th... | 9 | [
"One of the most creative, fun, and disturbing narratives you'll ever read--a challenge to readers as the prose is knowingly avant-garde but yet still accessible for those willing to let it all wash over them. ~ Daniel Casey (Reviewer), NetGalley",
"Critique: \"Too Fat to Go to the Moon: Gay Sasquatch Saved My Li... |
Toward Forever: Radical Reflections on History and Art | [
"Tony McKenna"
] | From the genesis of Islam as a social movement, to an account of Goya's art in the context of feudal absolutism and the Napoleonic wars, to The Da Vinci Code, and much more besides. | Toward Forever: Radical Reflections on History and Art is a diverse, colourful and eclectic set of essays of historical and cultural analyses. From the genesis of Islam as a social movement, to an account of Goya's art in the context of feudal absolutism and the Napoleonic wars, to The Da Vinci Code, and much more besi... | Toward Forever: Radical Reflections on History and Art is a diverse, colourful and eclectic set of essays of historical and cultural analyses. From the genesis of Islam as a social movement, to an account of Goya's art in the context of feudal absolutism and the Napoleonic wars, to The Da Vinci Code, and much more besi... | 1 | [
"Praise for Tony McKenna: '...informative, intelligent, thought-provoking, and always highly readable.' ~ Sean Sayers, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Kent"
] |
Towards Speculative Realism: Essays and Lectures | [
"Graham Harman"
] | These writings chart Harman's rise from Chicago sportswriter to co founder of one of Europe's most promising philosophical movements: Speculative Realism. | These writings chart Harman's rise from Chicago sportswriter to co founder of one of Europe's most promising philosophical movements: Speculative Realism. In 1997 Graham Harman was an obscure graduate student covering Chicago sporting events for a California website. Unpublished in philosophy at the time he was already... | These writings chart Harman's rise from Chicago sportswriter to co founder of one of Europe's most promising philosophical movements: Speculative Realism. In 1997 Graham Harman was an obscure graduate student covering Chicago sporting events for a California website. Unpublished in philosophy at the time he was already... | 3 | [
"The style of Harman often evokes that of a William James joined to the spirit of H.P. Lovecraft. ~ Olivier Surel,in Actu Philosophia",
"In his letter to the young Beatrice [Chapter 9], Graham Harman offers the clearest exposition of object-oriented philosophy to date. With grace, wit, and a remarkable inventiven... |
Traces of Modernity | [
"Dan Smith"
] | A collection of critical encounters with the material remains of the past as living and dynamic influences upon the present. | This book offers critical engagements with four objects from the nineteenth century: The ruins of the Crystal Palace in Sydenham and the dinosaurs that remain, the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens, Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum and the short novel by H.G. Wells – The Time Machine. These provide very different forms ... | This book offers critical engagements with four objects from the nineteenth century: The ruins of the Crystal Palace in Sydenham and the dinosaurs that remain, the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens, Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum and the short novel by H.G. Wells – The Time Machine. These provide very different forms ... | 0 | [] |
Transcending Racial Divisions | [
"Christine Louis-Dit-Sully"
] | Christine Louis-Dit-Sully examines the origins of racial thinking and the relationship between race and culture, asking us to recognise that racial thinking is not the only way of understanding ourselves and the world around us. | Martin Luther King, Jr once said, ‘I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character’. This is one of the aspirations many had when they fought against racism. They understood that for this aspiration... | Martin Luther King, Jr once said, ‘I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character’. This is one of the aspirations many had when they fought against racism. They understood that for this aspiration... | 4 | [
"Transcending Racial Divisions may get some readers’ blood boiling, but Louis-Dit-Sully would be nonplussed. To her, justice for all will only be achieved through energetic engagement and vigorous debate of our cherished ideals.\n\n~ Genevieve A. Chornenski, C.Med, C.Arb, ADR Update Newsletter, Issue 108, Fall-Wint... |
Translating Anarchy | [
"Mark Bray"
] | An insider's account of the anarchists who ignited Occupy Wall Street. | Translating Anarchy tells the story of the anti-capitalist anti-authoritarians of Occupy Wall Street who strategically communicated their revolutionary politics to the public in a way that was both accessible and revolutionary. By “translating” their ideas into everyday concepts like community empowerment and collectiv... | Translating Anarchy tells the story of the anti-capitalist anti-authoritarians of Occupy Wall Street who strategically communicated their revolutionary politics to the public in a way that was both accessible and revolutionary. By “translating” their ideas into everyday concepts like community empowerment and collectiv... | 4 | [
"This is a remarkable book and, of all the \"insider\" stories of Occupy Wall Street (OWS), the most compelling. ~ Paul Buhle, author of Marxism in the United States, truthout",
"Translating Anarchy is an impressive example of movement analysis, one of the most important books about anarchism of its time, and a m... |
Trav | [
"Taylor Burns"
] | There is the day it happens, and then there is everything after. | Trav, thirteen, is trying to come to terms with the death of his father.
Jay, Trav’s best friend, is tasked with going through a decade’s worth of writing that Trav wrote after finding his father dead.
Stella, Trav’s mother, is trying to keep it together for her son while dealing with irreparable fallout in her adopt... | Trav, thirteen, is trying to come to terms with the death of his father.
Jay, Trav’s best friend, is tasked with going through a decade’s worth of writing that Trav wrote after finding his father dead.
Stella, Trav’s mother, is trying to keep it together for her son while dealing with irreparable fallout in her adopt... | 5 | [
"Trav is told with appropriate bravado. The prose blazes across the page, alive with pinpoint imagery. It had me from the start, with its close attention to detail, its touches of comedy, and the way it follows how relationships between family members alter over the years. I could feel the generosity behind the las... |
Trump's Counter-Revolution | [
"Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen"
] | A radical Marxist analysis of Trump which finds Trump to be a preventive counter-revolutionary derailment of the coming-into-being of a new world. | In Trump's Counter-Revolution, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen looks behind the craziness of Donald Trump to decipher the formation of a new kind of fascism, late-capitalist fascism, that is intent on preventing any kind of real social change. Trump projects an image of America as threatened, but capable of re-creating itself as... | In Trump's Counter-Revolution, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen looks behind the craziness of Donald Trump to decipher the formation of a new kind of fascism, late-capitalist fascism, that is intent on preventing any kind of real social change. Trump projects an image of America as threatened, but capable of re-creating itself as... | 3 | [
"A lucid, clear-eyed analysis of the morbid spectacle of Trump's racist counterrevolution. Mikkel Bolt proposes to add to the rubble of the neoliberal order by demolishing the political form of capitalism - democracy itself - as it slides into fascism. Welcome to life in the postcolony. ~ Iain Boal, co-author of Af... |
Truth about Art, The | [
"Patrick Doorly"
] | The book traces the multiple meanings of art to their various sources, and equips the reader to choose between them. | ‘Both knowledge and truth are beautiful things, but the Good is other and more beautiful than they.’ — Plato, Republic, 508e. This book traces the multiple meanings of art back to their historical roots, and equips the reader to choose between them. Art with a capital A turns out to be an invention of German Romantic p... | ‘Both knowledge and truth are beautiful things, but the Good is other and more beautiful than they.’ — Plato, Republic, 508e. This book traces the multiple meanings of art back to their historical roots, and equips the reader to choose between them. Art with a capital A turns out to be an invention of German Romantic p... | 3 | [
"E H Gombrich and Robert Pirsig might seem as unlikely bedfellows as the hobby-horse and the motorcycle of which they wrote, yet in Patrick Doorly’s meticulous and lucid quest for the Truth about Art they stand side by side as the two lone providers of insight. Over the course of a journey of exploration ranging fr... |
Twerking to Turking | [
"EDA Collective"
] | Analysing the signs of everyday life in an ABC of modern phenomena from Advertising to Language, Sport to Education, Film and TV to Work and Play, and Politics to Comic Universes. | In this follow-up to the first volume of Everyday Analysis articles, Why are Animals Funny?, the EDA Collective tracks through an ABC of modern phenomena ordered by analytic theme, widely ranging from Advertising to Language, Sport to Education, Film and TV to Work and Play, and Politics to Comic Universes. Punctuating... | In this follow-up to the first volume of Everyday Analysis articles, Why are Animals Funny?, the EDA Collective tracks through an ABC of modern phenomena ordered by analytic theme, widely ranging from Advertising to Language, Sport to Education, Film and TV to Work and Play, and Politics to Comic Universes. Punctuating... | 4 | [
"What we want to avoid at all costs is something that is common inside both academic and journalistic discourse; that is, criticising the popular from an imaginary privileged position of knowledge, and even setting up this imaginary position in the process, making it seem as though we can speak from somewhere outsi... |
TWICE: A Novel | [
"Susanna Kleeman"
] | It's not true. It never was. | TWICE is a speculative thriller about false fronts and coercive control on a global and personal scale. It tells the story of Nim, who discovers that her childhood games taught her dangerous secrets she must now keep from her first love - and his doubles.
Nim's ex-love returns from Silicon Valley, wanting a book from ... | TWICE is a speculative thriller about false fronts and coercive control on a global and personal scale. It tells the story of Nim, who discovers that her childhood games taught her dangerous secrets she must now keep from her first love - and his doubles.
Nim's ex-love returns from Silicon Valley, wanting a book from ... | 4 | [
"A Novel keeps the reader guessing with its twists and turns. A woman named Nim finds herself at the center of an intrigue between Chris, a man she used to love, and his doubles. The man who claims to be the real Chris forces her to come with him on a trip where illusion and reality overlap. Nim must figure out who... |
Ugly Beauty: Jazz in the 21st Century | [
"Philip Freeman"
] | Far from dead, jazz is more vital than it's been in decades. These are some of the artists keeping it alive in the twenty-first century. | What does jazz “mean” 20 years into the 21st century? Has streaming culture rendered music literally meaningless, thanks to the removal of all context beyond the playlist? Are there any traditions left to explore? Has the destruction of the apprenticeship model (young musicians learning from their elders) changed the m... | What does jazz “mean” 20 years into the 21st century? Has streaming culture rendered music literally meaningless, thanks to the removal of all context beyond the playlist? Are there any traditions left to explore? Has the destruction of the apprenticeship model (young musicians learning from their elders) changed the m... | 10 | [
"\"Ugly Beauty... provides a number of well-constructed signposts to understanding the complexities of jazz in the twenty-first century, sheds light on several dozen of its chief protagonists and provides listening guides that will serve as reference points for anyone coming to any of the music for the first time.\... |
Ultrablack of Music | [
"Claire Elise Herzberg",
"Achim Szepanski"
] | Anonymous, hidden, encrypted, incomprehensible - these are the forces and sounds that tell us the unheard in music. | Iconic Frankfurt techno and experimental label -Mille Plateaux- returns with a new anthology of texts written by a collective of voices who assembled around the resurrection of the label, taking Ultrablack as its organising principle.
This volume features various forms of writing with and through - as opposed to about... | Iconic Frankfurt techno and experimental label -Mille Plateaux- returns with a new anthology of texts written by a collective of voices who assembled around the resurrection of the label, taking Ultrablack as its organising principle.
This volume features various forms of writing with and through - as opposed to about... | 0 | [] |
Uncertain Futures | [
"Edmund Berger"
] | A detailed look into the economic and political conditions of our present moment from a Marxist perspective. | Uncertain Futures: An Assessment of the Conditions of the Present provides a detailed look into the economic and political conditions of our present moment from a Marxist perspective. Key aspects of Marxist economic theory are illustrated in clear ways in order to provide an easy introduction to Marxist thought and the... | Uncertain Futures: An Assessment of the Conditions of the Present provides a detailed look into the economic and political conditions of our present moment from a Marxist perspective. Key aspects of Marxist economic theory are illustrated in clear ways in order to provide an easy introduction to Marxist thought and the... | 3 | [
"As I finished Edmund’s new book Uncertain Futures: An Assessment of the Conditions of the Present (Get it: here) I realized why I’ve followed his blog Deterritorial Investigations Unit for the past few years: keen intelligence, an encyclopedic breadth of vision encompassing an ethical commitment to the real moveme... |
Uncommon | [
"Owen Hatherley"
] | The history of the Jarvis Cocker’s 1990s Britpop band, Pulp,through sex, pop, class war and Sheffield. | If we remember them at all, the Sheffield pop group Pulp are remembered for jolly class warfare ditty 'Common People', for the celebrity of their interestingly-named frontman, for the latter waving his arse at Michael Jackson at the Brit awards, for being part of a non-movement called 'Britpop', and for disappearing al... | If we remember them at all, the Sheffield pop group Pulp are remembered for jolly class warfare ditty 'Common People', for the celebrity of their interestingly-named frontman, for the latter waving his arse at Michael Jackson at the Brit awards, for being part of a non-movement called 'Britpop', and for disappearing al... | 5 | [
"The Battle of Orgreave may have been lost, but Cocker never forgave nor forgot the violence wreaked on his native Sheffield. In the pointillist details of his songs – “The smell of gas and potato peelings” in Street Lites (1994); “Net curtains blowing slightly in the breeze/ Lemonade light filtering through the tr... |
Under Foreign Eyes | [
"James King"
] | This book is about an important sub-genre: the sixty Western films set in post World War II. | This book is about the perception of Japan in the sixty films set there by gaijin (foreigners) —outsiders who almost always do not speak or read Japanese. This book discusses films depicting post World War II Japan and the Japanese, and, in many cases, films showing how foreigners in the same time frame respond to Japa... | This book is about the perception of Japan in the sixty films set there by gaijin (foreigners) —outsiders who almost always do not speak or read Japanese. This book discusses films depicting post World War II Japan and the Japanese, and, in many cases, films showing how foreigners in the same time frame respond to Japa... | 0 | [] |
Unf*cking Work | [
"Neil Usher"
] | A bold, fearless, uncompromising and yet practical advocacy for a more humane, honest and open world of work. | Every journey starts with the realization that we don’t have to take any more of this crap.
The world of work – and all that’s wrong with it – is dominated by 12 statements. We hear them every day. We utter them at will. But they’re all garbage.
What if we said – no more?
This is the business book for everyone who c... | Every journey starts with the realization that we don’t have to take any more of this crap.
The world of work – and all that’s wrong with it – is dominated by 12 statements. We hear them every day. We utter them at will. But they’re all garbage.
What if we said – no more?
This is the business book for everyone who c... | 3 | [
"The reality is it’s far easier to convince yourself you’re good at HR or management through platitudes than it is to actually hold a mirror up to yourself and really understand what needs to change. That’s what I got from this book - a call to forget everything you learned and re-frame what work is for, and where ... |
Uninhabited | [
"Ben Woodard"
] | A fresh view on sci-fi and colonialism. | Is it inhabited? This question makes the shared stakes of science fiction and colonialism obvious, wherein the wide imaginaries of empire and what counts as life - scientifically, ethically, politically - and the moral and technological possibilities of terraforming and the impulse for exploration are all fused. Scienc... | Is it inhabited? This question makes the shared stakes of science fiction and colonialism obvious, wherein the wide imaginaries of empire and what counts as life - scientifically, ethically, politically - and the moral and technological possibilities of terraforming and the impulse for exploration are all fused. Scienc... | 0 | [] |
Universal Subject of Our Time, The | [
"Darius Nikbin"
] | The Subject itself is the Subject of the Machine. | The Subject itself is the Subject of the Machine.
What does it mean to be human? We live in a technological age, where rapid advances in personal tech and the science of Artificial Intelligence are challenging us in ways never before imagined.
A book in two parts, The Universal Subject of Our Time begins with an expl... | The Subject itself is the Subject of the Machine.
What does it mean to be human? We live in a technological age, where rapid advances in personal tech and the science of Artificial Intelligence are challenging us in ways never before imagined.
A book in two parts, The Universal Subject of Our Time begins with an expl... | 3 | [
"Nikbin's The Universal Subject of Our Time challenges the current discourse on human subjectivity and its difficult encounter with virtual technologies. Lucidly written and well argued, it is a concise philosophical-scientific primer for anybody who is concerned with the predicament of the human subject facing mac... |
Unlearning Marx | [
"Steve Paxton"
] | An authentically Marxist understanding of the USSR's place in Russian history. Unlearning Marx will surprise Marx’s admirers and his detractors alike. | The theories of Karl Marx and the practical existence of the Soviet Union are inseparable in the public imagination, but for all the wrong reasons. This book provides detailed analyses of both Marx’s theory of history and the course of Russian and Soviet development and delivers a new and insightful approach to the rel... | The theories of Karl Marx and the practical existence of the Soviet Union are inseparable in the public imagination, but for all the wrong reasons. This book provides detailed analyses of both Marx’s theory of history and the course of Russian and Soviet development and delivers a new and insightful approach to the rel... | 2 | [
"With its robust argument that the collapse of the Soviet Union vindicated rather than disproved Marxian theory, Steve Paxton’s timely book reclaims a vital part of humanity’s conceptual toolbox, just as we witness the persisting dry cough of capitalism approach its distressing conclusion. Highly recommended. ~ Ala... |
Unmaking Merlin | [
"Elliot Murphy"
] | A unique exploration of how anarchist philosophy and practice has inspired some of the English language's most revered, and reviled, authors. | A unique exploration of how anarchist philosophy and practice has inspired some of the English language's most revered, and reviled, authors. | A unique exploration of how anarchist philosophy and practice has inspired some of the English language's most revered, and reviled, authors. | 2 | [
"'Murphy is remarkably erudite for such a young scholar. Though not even 25 years old, he zooms with apparent ease and familiarity from George Orwell to Friedrich Nietzsche to James Joyce to Christopher Hitchens ... The book is wide-ranging, touching on a number of themes – including education, representative democ... |
Unpatriotic History of the Second World War | [
"James Heartfield"
] | The Second World War was not the Good War of legend. James Heartfield explains that both Allies and Axis powers fought for the same goals - territory, markets and natural resources. | Sixty million people died in the Second World War, and still they tell us it was the Peoples War.
The official history of the Second World War is Victors History. This is the history of the Second World War without the patriotic whitewash.
The Second World War was not fought to stop fascism, or to liberate Europe. It... | Sixty million people died in the Second World War, and still they tell us it was the Peoples War.
The official history of the Second World War is Victors History. This is the history of the Second World War without the patriotic whitewash.
The Second World War was not fought to stop fascism, or to liberate Europe. It... | 6 | [
"James Heartfields’s book, ..is an impressive piece of research: 472 pages of text contain a wealth of information, and the 76 pages of notes reveal the huge range of sources that have been consulted ...\n\nThe book covers the whole course of the war and its impact on the shape of the post-war world. Everything is ... |
Vade Mecum | [
"Richard Skinner"
] | A collection of highly-informed essays offering fresh perspectives on cutting-edge writers, musicians and filmmakers. | Vade Mecum brings together Richard Skinner’s best essays, reviews and interviews from 1992-2014. There are close critical engagements with writers (Kazuo Ishiguro, Italo Calvino, Shakespeare’s The Tempest) and composers (Erik Satie, Iannis Xenakis, Luc Ferrari), meditations on films and filmmakers (Antonioni, Krzysztof... | Vade Mecum brings together Richard Skinner’s best essays, reviews and interviews from 1992-2014. There are close critical engagements with writers (Kazuo Ishiguro, Italo Calvino, Shakespeare’s The Tempest) and composers (Erik Satie, Iannis Xenakis, Luc Ferrari), meditations on films and filmmakers (Antonioni, Krzysztof... | 5 | [
"'The British writer Richard Skinner has found new inputs in Erik Satie's creation in his dual/double narrative ‘The Mirror’. From the mundane to the imaginary, without adding anything, you just follow the stream of impressions, the silences that occur and the freedom in the small and simple ... through the feat of... |
Vagabond Witness: | [
"Paul Gordon"
] | A unique witness to the revolutionary upheavals of the last century, endlessly creative, deeply humanist, Serge is a resource of hope for today. | Victor Serge was the first and the greatest witness of the twentieth century. An anarchist in France, a syndicalist in Spain, a critical Bolshevik in Russia, an agent of the Comintern in Germany and Austria, an exile, Serge once said that people judged history, but they did so without knowing what really happened and w... | Victor Serge was the first and the greatest witness of the twentieth century. An anarchist in France, a syndicalist in Spain, a critical Bolshevik in Russia, an agent of the Comintern in Germany and Austria, an exile, Serge once said that people judged history, but they did so without knowing what really happened and w... | 0 | [] |
Voodoo Science Park | [
"Steve Beard"
] | A filmic essay which cross-cuts between Thomas Hobbes, William Blake, the science of accident investigation and the psychogeography of the Peak District. | Voodoo Science Park started life as a poetic film about the science of accident investigation practised by the Health and Safety Laboratory in the Peak District of England. In the book of the film, Victoria Halford and Steve Beard reveal the thinking that went into the preparation of the script. The Health and Safety L... | Voodoo Science Park started life as a poetic film about the science of accident investigation practised by the Health and Safety Laboratory in the Peak District of England. In the book of the film, Victoria Halford and Steve Beard reveal the thinking that went into the preparation of the script. The Health and Safety L... | 3 | [
"Voodoo Science Park convincingly demonstrates that history is only ever rewritten and that there can consequently be little room for ‘accidents’ in any of our accepted historical accounts. If this text overturns all orthodox readings of the documented past, it does so simply in the name of prophecy, the authors be... |
We Have Never Been Neoliberal | [
"Kean Birch"
] | How to understand the crisis and stop the top 1% all at the same time. | A number of people have claimed that the ongoing financial crisis has revealed the problems with neoliberal thought and neoliberal policies in the 'Atlantic Heartland'. However, if we look at the history of the 'Heartland' economies then it becomes evident that they were never neoliberal in the first place - that is, t... | A number of people have claimed that the ongoing financial crisis has revealed the problems with neoliberal thought and neoliberal policies in the 'Atlantic Heartland'. However, if we look at the history of the 'Heartland' economies then it becomes evident that they were never neoliberal in the first place - that is, t... | 9 | [
"Neoliberalism is an unjust system, but the system in which we actually findourselves is much worse. This is the premise of Kean Birch’s important book,WeHave Never Been Neoliberal: A Manifesto for a doomed Youth. The rhetoric ofneoliberalism, Birch argues, has been enthusiastically peddled by politicians,economist... |
We Hear Only Ourselves | [
"Bill Cashmore"
] | A bold response to a question everyone asks but few answer: What is utopia? | We Hear Only Ourselves is a study of utopia and its contradictions. If a future beyond capitalism cannot be imagined, what is the place of utopia today? The answer, Cashmore argues, lies beyond either idle speculation or merely hopeful optimism. We Hear Only Ourselves seeks a concept of utopia which is strengthened, no... | We Hear Only Ourselves is a study of utopia and its contradictions. If a future beyond capitalism cannot be imagined, what is the place of utopia today? The answer, Cashmore argues, lies beyond either idle speculation or merely hopeful optimism. We Hear Only Ourselves seeks a concept of utopia which is strengthened, no... | 1 | [
"First, this book is the beautiful breakthrough of an enormously gifted young philosopher. Then, an original elaboration of the aporias affecting the concept of utopia, after Marx, Bloch, and Jameson. Above all, it demonstrates how decisive the \"narration of blackness\", as cast by Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman, ... |
We Must Begin with the Land | [
"Stephen E. Hunt"
] | A polyculture of ideas, decolonising, reframing, and transforming how we think about the things we grow through a social-ecology lens. | We live at a time of intractable armed conflicts starved of resolution. We inhabit a planet where damaged ecosystems are hungry for restoration. We endure chronic inequalities of wealth and power which crave redistribution. During the past decade, such intertwined factors have precipitated a food crisis, in which incre... | We live at a time of intractable armed conflicts starved of resolution. We inhabit a planet where damaged ecosystems are hungry for restoration. We endure chronic inequalities of wealth and power which crave redistribution. During the past decade, such intertwined factors have precipitated a food crisis, in which incre... | 4 | [
"We Must Begin with the Land is a rich and nourishing work written by someone passionate about good food - good for the people, for the planet, for society - and extremely well acquainted to ecological thought and theory. Looking at food and agricultural production through the lens of social ecology, it takes us on... |
Weird Realism | [
"Graham Harman"
] | As Hölderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarmé to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers. | As Hölderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarmé to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers. Lovecraft was one of the brightest stars of the horror and science fiction magazines, but died in poverty and relative obscurity in the 1930s. In 2005 he was finally elevated from pulp sta... | As Hölderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarmé to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers. Lovecraft was one of the brightest stars of the horror and science fiction magazines, but died in poverty and relative obscurity in the 1930s. In 2005 he was finally elevated from pulp sta... | 1 | [
"http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&id=1556&fulltext=1\n\nBrian Kim Stefans on Weird Realism\n\nLet’s Get Weird: On Graham Harman’s H.P. Lovecraft\n\nApril 6th, 2013 reset - +\n\nH.P. LOVECRAFT'S WORK has not received a great deal of attention from literary critics. Until relatively recently, the majority... |
Welcome to the Rebellion | [
"Michael Harris"
] | In the first book to present Star Wars as a mirror for contemporary politics, Michael Harris reveals Star Wars' new Left roots. | What does it mean that our most popular modern myth is a radical left story about fighting corporate authoritarianism? From its roots in the 1960s new left, Star Wars still speaks to millions of people today. By design, the saga mirrors our own time and politics. A real empire of corporate domination has arisen within ... | What does it mean that our most popular modern myth is a radical left story about fighting corporate authoritarianism? From its roots in the 1960s new left, Star Wars still speaks to millions of people today. By design, the saga mirrors our own time and politics. A real empire of corporate domination has arisen within ... | 0 | [] |
What Is Post-Modern Conservatism | [
"Matthew McManus"
] | What Is Post-Modern Conservatism develops a way to understand the emergence of right wing populism in the era of postmodern capitalism. | What is post-modern conservatism? How it has come to dominate the political landscape in many developed countries? Edited by Matt McManus, Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Tec de Monterrey, What Is Post-Modern Conservatism touches on how technological, economic, and social transfor... | What is post-modern conservatism? How it has come to dominate the political landscape in many developed countries? Edited by Matt McManus, Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Tec de Monterrey, What Is Post-Modern Conservatism touches on how technological, economic, and social transfor... | 2 | [
"Featuring contributory essays from Dylan De Jong, Erik Tate, Borna Radnik, David Hollands and Conrad Hamilton, \"What Is Post-Modern Conservatism: Essays On Our Hugely Tremendous Times\" is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand why so many traditional Republicans have left the Republic Party, which it... |
What's Left of the World | [
"David J. Blacker"
] | For long-term viability the left must move beyond identity emotivism and articulate a larger worldview. | In 1960, Paul Goodman argued that the Fordist system that treated people as mere cogs in a machine had created a profound unhappiness in young people and in American society as a whole.
More than half a century later, professor David Blacker recognizes that decades of neoliberalism have pushed young people beyond unha... | In 1960, Paul Goodman argued that the Fordist system that treated people as mere cogs in a machine had created a profound unhappiness in young people and in American society as a whole.
More than half a century later, professor David Blacker recognizes that decades of neoliberalism have pushed young people beyond unha... | 3 | [
"This is an impressive overview of the enduring effects of neoliberalism on the interdependent areas of identity politics, progressivism. education and climate change. Its sweep is impressive, but at times, it does not allow its argument to breathe. The discussion of education is a case in point, focused predominan... |
When Journalism was a Thing | [
"Alexandra Kitty"
] | Journalism used to be everything until the day it became nothing. What happened and why? | Journalism used to be a thing. It used to be a powerful and wonderful thing, yet now it has become a curiosity, and not even the Internet can resurrect it. When Journalism was a Thing considers the downfall and the reasons why, but also offers a model for a new approach to the once-noble profession. | Journalism used to be a thing. It used to be a powerful and wonderful thing, yet now it has become a curiosity, and not even the Internet can resurrect it. When Journalism was a Thing considers the downfall and the reasons why, but also offers a model for a new approach to the once-noble profession. | 4 | [
"Timely and needed analysis of the media relation to our common world. Perhaps since medium really became a message the trouble started. Propaganda-based broadcasting and writing was an exception (or a rule reserved only for tabloid-media) until the news and opinion became a product. Until that time one could expec... |
Where God Comes From | [
"Ira Livingston"
] | What happens when language and thought come face-to-face with their maker: the self-organizing processes out of which they emerge? | Where God Comes From explores how the sublime and miraculous can be found in a whole range of processes-- from chemistry and biology to language and literature and social interactions -- and how they loop back on themselves to form complex systems, stitching themselves and their environments together. The book traces a... | Where God Comes From explores how the sublime and miraculous can be found in a whole range of processes-- from chemistry and biology to language and literature and social interactions -- and how they loop back on themselves to form complex systems, stitching themselves and their environments together. The book traces a... | 1 | [
"Livingston’s unique and beautiful book is a soulful mixture of memoir and theoretical meditation. Ideas move in fractal trajectories across boundaries, coupling up multiple systems of thought. This is high-level discursive performance art full of conceptual kicks.\n\n~ Bruce Clarke, Paul Whitfield Horn Professor o... |
Where the Beast is Buried | [
"Joanna Rajkowska"
] | The first English-language book about Joanna Rajkowska and her unique practice of work in public space, in extremely diverse cultures and geographies. | Rajkowska’s unique artistic vision and methodology combines subjective narratives and critical discourses with a deeply felt concern for the spaces in which her works appear and the people they touch. Instead of simply invading or occupying public spaces, she blurs the identities and hidden tensions associated with the... | Rajkowska’s unique artistic vision and methodology combines subjective narratives and critical discourses with a deeply felt concern for the spaces in which her works appear and the people they touch. Instead of simply invading or occupying public spaces, she blurs the identities and hidden tensions associated with the... | 1 | [
"Joanna Rajkowska explores urban spaces and experiential stories. Her concern is with the regeneration of ‘atrophied’ public spaces and their political and social histories. Rajkowska’s art offers new ways of experiencing space and sociality, whether in Berlin, Warsaw, the West Bank, Turkey, Peterborough, London or... |
Who Makes the Fash | [
"Luca Carboni"
] | A compelling analysis of the relationships between fascism, neoliberalism, art and popular culture over the last century, and their contemporary manifestations. | Who makes the Fash is a compelling analysis of the relationships between art and fascism. Originating from the desire of conceptualising an antifascist artistic practice, this book investigates fascism in Italy and its relationships with futurism and neoliberalism.
When seen in a historical context, the aesthetic appe... | Who makes the Fash is a compelling analysis of the relationships between art and fascism. Originating from the desire of conceptualising an antifascist artistic practice, this book investigates fascism in Italy and its relationships with futurism and neoliberalism.
When seen in a historical context, the aesthetic appe... | 2 | [
"From Breitbart to the New York Times to Jacobin, the consensus on the international resurgence of the far-right is that it is a cultural movement first, and a political movement second. Here is the first close-up English-language case study of another 'Italian laboratory' than the one we have been shown by the pos... |
Who's Afraid of the Easter Rising? 1916-2016 | [
"James Heartfield",
"Kevin Rooney"
] | One hundred years on from the Rising that set Ireland free, Ireland's leaders in politics and letters are running scared from their history. | One hundred years ago, Easter 1916, Irish revolutionaries rose against the British Empire proclaiming a Republic from the steps of the General Post Office in Dublin. The men and women of the Easter Rising were defeated by the overwhelming force of the British Army, in five days of intense fighting. Their leaders were e... | One hundred years ago, Easter 1916, Irish revolutionaries rose against the British Empire proclaiming a Republic from the steps of the General Post Office in Dublin. The men and women of the Easter Rising were defeated by the overwhelming force of the British Army, in five days of intense fighting. Their leaders were e... | 3 | [
"'I recommend this book'\n\n~ Professor Paul Bew",
"'a penetrating reflection on the controversies surrounding the Dublin revolt of 1916 as its centenary year approaches.'\n\nhttp://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/recalling-the-spirit-of-the-easter-rising/17675#.Vv2EEZwguM9 ~ Michael Fitzpatrick, Spiked Onl... |
Why are Animals Funny? | [
"EDA Collective"
] | Analysing the signs of everyday life. | Why are Animals Funny? comprises 46 articles in which nigh on everything is analysed, from the smartphone to the 2010 general election, from toasties to Margaret Thatcher, from anxiety in children's literature to David Cameron's music tastes...
Everyday Analysis (for which we use the author name EDA Collective) is a g... | Why are Animals Funny? comprises 46 articles in which nigh on everything is analysed, from the smartphone to the 2010 general election, from toasties to Margaret Thatcher, from anxiety in children's literature to David Cameron's music tastes...
Everyday Analysis (for which we use the author name EDA Collective) is a g... | 9 | [
"I’ll be one of the first to admit, I love “Grumpy Cat” (fun aside though, the 2-year old American shorthair cat is actually named Tardar Sauce, and looks the way she does thanks to feline dwarfism and an under bite . . . and is apparently quite the loving little animal). I love pop-cultural tropes and memes like i... |
Why Are We The Good Guys? | [
"David Cromwell"
] | A provocative challenge to the standard ideology that Western power is a benevolent force in the world. | One of the unspoken assumptions of the Western world is that we are great defenders of human rights, a free press and the benefits of market economics. Mistakes might be made along the way, perhaps even tragic errors of judgement such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq. But the prevailing view is that the West is essentially... | One of the unspoken assumptions of the Western world is that we are great defenders of human rights, a free press and the benefits of market economics. Mistakes might be made along the way, perhaps even tragic errors of judgement such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq. But the prevailing view is that the West is essentially... | 11 | [
"Media Lens's editors David Cromwell and David Edwards have over the years become important analysts of the corporate media's failure to meaningfully engage with the real world of greed, mendacity, destructive economic and financial practices, relentless environmental destruction and constant mounting of illegal wa... |
Why We Love Sociopaths | [
"Adam Kotsko"
] | Argues that our fascination with cold and ruthless television characters reflects a broken social contract. | Sociopaths are pervasive in contemporary television, from high-brow drama all the way down to cartoons -- and of course the news as well. From the scheming Eric Cartman of South Park to the seductive imposter Don Draper of Mad Men, cold and ruthless characters captivate us, making us wish that we could be so effective ... | Sociopaths are pervasive in contemporary television, from high-brow drama all the way down to cartoons -- and of course the news as well. From the scheming Eric Cartman of South Park to the seductive imposter Don Draper of Mad Men, cold and ruthless characters captivate us, making us wish that we could be so effective ... | 2 | [
"amusing thoughts on the true meaning of Homer Simpson ~ Lucy Steigerwald, Reason Magazine US",
"What is it about our society, which makes sociopaths, i.e., the kind of ruthless individuals who make their own rules, so appealing? With his usual acuity, Adam Kotsko gives an analysis of contemporary TV shows (South... |
Why Young People Don’t Vote | [
"Mitchell Agg"
] | Why don't young people vote? Through four main reasons, Mitchell helps us answer this question as well as giving some solutions. | Why don't young people vote? It's a question that has been asked by pollsters for years. The 18- to 24-year-old demographic records the lowest voter turnout at elections and it doesn't look to be showing signs of stopping. Being one of this demographic, Mitchell Agg looks into this question and tries to shed light on w... | Why don't young people vote? It's a question that has been asked by pollsters for years. The 18- to 24-year-old demographic records the lowest voter turnout at elections and it doesn't look to be showing signs of stopping. Being one of this demographic, Mitchell Agg looks into this question and tries to shed light on w... | 0 | [] |
Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption | [
"Robert Appelbaum"
] | All the world is not a stage, anymore - the world is a supermarket. This book relates one man's struggle to go 'working the aisles'. | Working the Aisles takes the reader on tumultuous driving trips across the United States and France, on phone sex escapades in San Francisco, on banking battles in Sweden, and many other adventures – including, of course, on trips to supermarkets, where the author has had to ‘work the aisles’. Moving back and forth thr... | Working the Aisles takes the reader on tumultuous driving trips across the United States and France, on phone sex escapades in San Francisco, on banking battles in Sweden, and many other adventures – including, of course, on trips to supermarkets, where the author has had to ‘work the aisles’. Moving back and forth thr... | 8 | [
"Robert Appelbaum, Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption. Winchester:\n\nZero Books, 2013. 244 pp. £12.99 pb. ISBN 978-1-78279-357-1.\n\nIn this autobiographical history of consumption from the 1960s onwards,\n\nRobert Appelbaum teeters on the balancing wire between depression and\n\ndesire. ‘The first thing yo... |
World of Failing Machines, The | [
"Grant Hamilton"
] | How speculative realism impacts the art of literary criticism. | The World of Failing Machines offers the first full-length discussion of the relationship between speculative realism and literary criticism. In identifying some of the most significant coordinates of speculative-realist thought, this book asks what the implications might be for the study of literature. It is argued th... | The World of Failing Machines offers the first full-length discussion of the relationship between speculative realism and literary criticism. In identifying some of the most significant coordinates of speculative-realist thought, this book asks what the implications might be for the study of literature. It is argued th... | 3 | [
"It is rare that one can claim a truly groundbreaking approach to critical theory but this book has all the ingredients. What you hold in your hands is a lively and accessible discourse on reading and (literary) writing that cuts through the obfuscation to reveal a really new approach. ~ Bill Ashcroft, Professor of... |
Writing on the Wall, The | [
"Anselm Jappe",
"Alastair Hemmens"
] | A new approach to the meaning of social emancipation | The 2008 global financial crisis has led to the re-emergence in public discourse of the idea that capitalism could end. For many, it was proof of the notion that capitalist civilisation has an endemic tendency towards crisis that will ultimately bring about its demise. Must we assume, however, that such an eventuality ... | The 2008 global financial crisis has led to the re-emergence in public discourse of the idea that capitalism could end. For many, it was proof of the notion that capitalist civilisation has an endemic tendency towards crisis that will ultimately bring about its demise. Must we assume, however, that such an eventuality ... | 3 | [
"The Writing on the Wall: On the Decomposition of Capitalism and Its Critics by Anselm Jappe and translated by Alastair Hemmens is a study of capitalism and its future failure. Jappe grew up in Cologne and in the Périgord. He studied in Paris and Rome where he obtained, respectively, a master’s and then a doctorate... |
Writing Urban Space | [
"Liam Murray Bell",
"Gavin Goodwin"
] | A collection of essays that explore the relationship between imaginative writing and the built environment. | From William Blake through to Iain Sinclair, literature has sought to engage with and transform urban space. Architects now seek the input of poets, and storytelling is employed in urban regeneration. Writing Urban Space investigates this relationship between imaginative writing and the built environment. | From William Blake through to Iain Sinclair, literature has sought to engage with and transform urban space. Architects now seek the input of poets, and storytelling is employed in urban regeneration. Writing Urban Space investigates this relationship between imaginative writing and the built environment. | 0 | [] |
Youth Group | [
"Lance Aksamit"
] | Following the life of a missionary kid as he traverses the bizarre world of Evangelicalism, Youth Group explores how and why the Evangelical church didn’t simply jump into bed with but became Christian Nationalists. | The aughts was a strange era for everyone. America finally filled that hammer-and-sickle-size hole in its heart with turbans and beards. High schoolers went from wearing JNCO denim tents to hermetically sealed Jeggings. And someone declared war on Christmas.
Youth Group: Coming of age in the church of Christian nation... | The aughts was a strange era for everyone. America finally filled that hammer-and-sickle-size hole in its heart with turbans and beards. High schoolers went from wearing JNCO denim tents to hermetically sealed Jeggings. And someone declared war on Christmas.
Youth Group: Coming of age in the church of Christian nation... | 1 | [
"Youth Group: Coming of Age in the Church of Christian Nationalism is a book that effortlessly blends hilarious personal experiences with serious examination of both the author's motives and the movement in which he was born. People who weren't born and raised in extremist religious movements often find it difficul... |
Zeitgeist Nostalgia | [
"Alessandro Gandini"
] | The society constructed upon work has collapsed. The answer? Nostalgia. | We live an age of nostalgia, incarnated by populist fantasies of “taking back control” and making nations “great again". In the long aftermath of the 2007-08 economic crisis, nostalgia has been established as the cultural zeitgeist of Western society. Populist fantasies of nostalgia represent a cry for help against the... | We live an age of nostalgia, incarnated by populist fantasies of “taking back control” and making nations “great again". In the long aftermath of the 2007-08 economic crisis, nostalgia has been established as the cultural zeitgeist of Western society. Populist fantasies of nostalgia represent a cry for help against the... | 5 | [
"I highly recommend Zeitgeist Nostalgia to those with an interest in culture, history, politics, and economics. Gandini has filled the pages with thoughtful social critique backed by plenty of research and anecdotal examples of what he is discussing. Particularly in light of the radical divide between the values of... |
Zen City | [
"Eliot Fintushel"
] | From the author of Breakfast with the Ones You Love comes Zen City. This thought-experiment novella brilliantly critiques spirituality in America | The world of ZEN CITY is a world of passionate desires: the desire for power, the desire for order, and the desire for self-transcendence. ZEN CITY is a story about the struggle and violence of people who see themselves as striving for the ultimate. Along the way, ZEN CITY presents a sly critique of the practice and pe... | The world of ZEN CITY is a world of passionate desires: the desire for power, the desire for order, and the desire for self-transcendence. ZEN CITY is a story about the struggle and violence of people who see themselves as striving for the ultimate. Along the way, ZEN CITY presents a sly critique of the practice and pe... | 12 | [
"Zen City is like nothing I've ever read before, an eccentric book indeed. But the brillant author knows Zen philosophy and scifi, and the art of weaving them together to create a unique urban tale. ~ Maha Erwin, GoodReads",
"Zen City\n\nby\n\nEliot Fintushel\n\n(Zero Books, June 2016, pb, 125 pp.)\n\nReviewed by... |
Zinnophobia | [
"David Detmer"
] | A detailed defense of the work of radical historian Howard Zinn against his many critics. | Zinnophobia offers an extended defense of the work of radical historian Howard Zinn, author of the bestselling A People's History of the United States, against his many critics. It includes a discussion of the attempt to ban Zinn's book from Indiana classrooms; a brief summary of Zinn's life and work; an analysis of Zi... | Zinnophobia offers an extended defense of the work of radical historian Howard Zinn, author of the bestselling A People's History of the United States, against his many critics. It includes a discussion of the attempt to ban Zinn's book from Indiana classrooms; a brief summary of Zinn's life and work; an analysis of Zi... | 5 | [
"The Battle Over History and Howard Zinn\n\nby KIM SCIPES\n\nIt is rare to get an intelligent, well-sourced and coherent discussion of issues today such as the role of history in education, politics and scholarship, but David Detmer of Purdue University Northwest has provided such with his new book, Zinnophobia: Th... |
— — | [
"Wade Parrish"
] | A City where the light has never been. | - - is a blank city.
There’s a sick glow to the clouds, and it always seems to be raining here even when it isn’t. Only sad and wounded people live here anymore. They are homeless in their apartments. They are unemployed at their jobs. They are widows in their marriage beds and celibates in amours and loners with many... | - - is a blank city.
There’s a sick glow to the clouds, and it always seems to be raining here even when it isn’t. Only sad and wounded people live here anymore. They are homeless in their apartments. They are unemployed at their jobs. They are widows in their marriage beds and celibates in amours and loners with many... | 1 | [
"Sprinkled with endless amounts of surrealism and peculiarly curious observations, at times ― ―: A Novel comes across as it we are ourselves wafting gently through a dreamlike state, guiding by the aforementioned voice of the narrator; who, at all times, tells the story their way (one assumes, no matter what they s... |
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