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Masks of Anarchy tells the extraordinary story of Percy Shelley’s poem “The Masque of Anarchy,” from its conception in Italy and suppression in Eng...

Despite the passing of some forty years since the original publication of Jurgen Habermas’s The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, the...

NATO’s war on Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999 was unleashed in the name of democracy and human rights. This view was challenged by the world’s thr...

Receptive to influences of such diverse theorists as Derrida, Jameson, Foucault, Irigaray, Kristeva, Lacan and Althusser, materialist Shakespeare c...

Anniversary edition of the classic political manifestoUrgently relevant to current arguments about the crisis of austerity, the 1968 manifesto set ...

Mechanic Accents is a widely acclaimed study of American popular fiction and working-class culture. Combining Marxist literary theory with American...

In this volume Régis Debray sums up over a decade of his research and writing on the evolution of subjects of communication and the technologically...

How to Design the World: Working Without SolutionsIn Medium Design everyone is a designer. But design, in this case, inverts the typical focus on o...

WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF THE IMAGE IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?Hito Steyerl is one of the most celebrated artists of our ...

WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF THE IMAGE IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?Hito Steyerl is one of the most celebrated artists of our ...

Meltdown is the gripping account of the financial collapse that destroyed the West’s investment banks, brought the global economy to its knees, and...

Samba and carnival, radio soaps and telenovelas, oral poetry, popular drama, Amerindian art. This illustrated overview of Latin America’s popular c...

Merchants and Revolution examines the activities of London’s merchant community during the early Stuart period. Proposing a new understanding of lo...

Despite the saturation of global media coverage, Osama bin Laden’s own writings have been curiously absent from analysis of the “war on terror.” Ov...

Leading French thinker with his key work on philosophical thoughtIn Metaphilosophy, Henri Lefebvre works through the implications of Marx’s revolut...

Leading French thinker with his key work on philosophical thoughtIn Metaphilosophy, Henri Lefebvre works through the implications of Marx’s revolut...

Badiou indicts this approach, which reduces politics to a matter of opinion, thus eliminating any of its truly radical and emancipatory possibiliti...

Carlos Monsiváis is one of Latin America’s most prescient and prolific social commentators. In this, the first English translation of his work, he ...

One of the most influential intellectuals in the English-speaking world, Michael Ignatieff’s story is generally understood to be that of an ambitio...

The reception of Michel Foucault’s work has often been divided between two unsatisfactory alternatives. On the one had there are those who admire t...

Short essays of social theory for damaged times, encompassing intellectual history, philosophy and cultureMicroverses comprises over a hundred shor...

A powerful debunking of the myths of globalization. What are the implications for culture and politics of the current fashion for talking about glo...

Remarkable reinterpretation of Milton and his poetry by one of the most famous historians of the 17th CenturyIn this remarkable book Christopher Hi...

The politics of literature in the construction of worldsThe Russian Revolution was a literary as well as political upheaval. With a focus on the re...