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A century of complex relations between Communists and workers in ChinaIn 2021, the Chinese Communist Party celebrated a century of existence. Since...

Proletarian Nights, previously published in English as Nights of Labor and one of Rancière’s most important works, dramatically reinterprets the Re...

Promise of a Dream is a moving, witty and poignant recollection of a time when young women were breaking all the rules about sex, politics and thei...

Promise of a Dream is a moving, witty and poignant recollection of a time when young women were breaking all the rules about sex, politics and thei...

How authoritarian and racist discourse functionsA classic book that analyzes and defines media appeals specific to American pro-fascist and anti-Se...

The “public sphere” is a key concept in political discourse, designating a space for political action. But is this a single authoritative and unive...

Amid the eulogies and celebrations commemorating the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth, the darker side of evolutionary theory should not be fo...

There were virtually no women film directors in germany until the 1970s. today there are proportionally more than in any other film-making country6...

Frigga Haug, one of Germany’s best-known feminist and Marxist critics, develops here a profound challenge both to women’s oppression and to what sh...

A riveting inquiry into black history and American racism published here for the first time, Race and Revolution is a work of radiant insight and b...

Continuing Patrick Wolfe’s work on settler colonialism This edited collection celebrates Patrick Wolfe’s contribution to the study and critique of ...

A new edition of a celebrated contemporary work on race and racismPraised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecra...

What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city? In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the ...

ALEXANDER HAMILTON AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE: This bold, revisionist biography of the polarizing Founding Father reframes the founding of the...

A passionate call to rediscover the political and emotional joy that emerges when we share our livesIn an era of increasing individualism, we have ...

A passionate call to rediscover the political and emotional joy that emerges when we share our livesIn an era of increasing individualism, we have ...

A “tremendously intelligent and stylish” guide to the new technologies that are transforming our everyday lives, in ways both good and bad (Guardia...

In The Concept of Nature in Marx, Alfred Schmidt examines humanity’s relation to the natural world as understood by the great philosopher-economist...

In these diatribes on the marketing of culture and the branding of identity, the development of spectacle—architecture and the rise of global citie...

A trenchant critique of new techniques of waging war, and its reduction to images on a screen Written with his characteristic flair, Virilio’s late...

During the phony war that preceded the invasion of France, between late 1939 and the summer of 1940, the young Jean-Paul Sartre was stationed in hi...