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John Berger
Permanent Red

In Permanent Red , John Berger argues that the contemporary artist should strive for a realism that aims for hope, to transform the world. Surveying the work of historical artists as well as that of near …

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Jasper Bernes
The Future of Revolution

Communism comes from the future, but its hopes haunt our past. Reading revolutionary history from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising by the light of communist theory, from Marx to C. L. R. Jam…

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Claire Bishop
Disordered Attention

The reception of art and performance is changing. Smartphones and social media have troubled the old model of individual appreciation and close looking, giving rise to new forms of mediated perception, su…

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Andrée Blouin
My Country, Africa

Andrée Blouin---once called the most dangerous woman in Africa---played a leading role in the struggles for decolonization that shook the continent in the 1950s and '60s, advising the postcolonial leaders…

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Alex Bollen
Motherdom

When Alex Bollen had her first baby, the fear of being a bad mother made her guilty and anxious. A researcher with twenty years' experience, she went looking for answers. To her surprise the studies she l…

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Judith Butler
Frames of War

Radical Thinkers

Analyzing the different frames through which we experience war, Butler calls for a reorientation of the Left.

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Wim Carton, Andreas Malm
Overshoot

The world is on the cusp of one and a half degrees of warming -- just the rise it has committed itself to avoiding. Heat at such levels would be intolerable. Even before one and a half, seasons of climate…

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Noam Chomsky, José Mujica, Saúl Alvídrez
Surviving the 21st Century

Two world-renowned figures of contemporary politics come together to debate alternatives for the future: José "Pepe" Mujica, former President of Uruguay and an ex-guerrilla who acquired an inter…

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Brett Christophers
Our Lives in Their Portfolios

Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago. Today, our new financial masters are asset managers, like Blackstone and BlackRock. And they don't just own financial asset…

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Brett Christophers
The Price is Wrong

What if our understanding of capitalism and climate is back to front? What if the problem is not that transitioning to renewables is too expensive, but that saving the planet is not sufficiently profitabl…

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Brett Christophers
The Price is Wrong

RECENT TECHNICAL ADVANCES mean it is typically cheaper to produce electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels. Yet, around the world, the transition to green energy is happening too slowly i…

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Andrea Long Chu
Females

"Everyone is female, and everyone hates it."So begins Andrea Long Chu's genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender a…

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Yves Citton,
Mythocracy

Mythocracyexamines the narrative mechanisms that script our lives through the stories we tell one another. Digging beneath common anxieties about fake news, Yves Citton looks at the attention economy, whi…

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Patrick Cockburn
Believe Nothing until It Is Officially Denied

Radical journalist Claud Cockburn fought successfully against the political and media establishment, writing for publications as varied as The Times and Private Eye. To Graham Greene, he was the greatest …

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Jonathan Crary
24/7

The bestselling and internationally translated book 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capita…

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Mike Davis,
City of Quartz

No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it…

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Mike Davis
Old Gods, New Enigmas

Old Gods, New Enigmas is the highly-anticipated book by the best-selling author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums . Mike Davis spent years working blue collar jobs and sitting behind the wheel of an e…

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Jodi Dean
Capital's Grave

Bringing together analyses from different fields---law, technology, Marxism, and psychoanalysis---Jodi Dean shows the direction the contemporary world is heading: neofeudalism. Feudalism isn't just a meta…

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Marijam Did
Everything to Play For

Everything To Play For asks if videogames can achieve egalitarian goals instead of fuelling hyper-materialist, reactionary agendas. Combining cultural theory and materialist critiques with accessible lang…

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Cory Doctorow
Enshittification

*** Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025 ***"Enshittification" is Doctorow's word to describe the decay of online platforms, from exciting novelty to e…

lieferbar ab 14.10.2025.

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