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The financial crisis keeps us on edge and creates a diffuse sense of helplessness. Well-nigh unfathomable problems lead to measures that seem like ...

The aftershocks of the economic crisis that began in 2008 still rock the world, and have been followed by a crisis in democratic governance. The gr...

C.L.R. James is one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable individuals. As the author of the influential book The Black Jacobins, he is widely ...

A new edition of C.L.R. James’s authorized biographyC.L.R. James was a man of prodigious and varied accomplishments. He was a protean twentieth-cen...

A new edition of C.L.R. James’s authorized biographyC.L.R. James was a man of prodigious and varied accomplishments. He was a protean twentieth-cen...

A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our worldShor...

A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our worldShor...

Acclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith’s thousand-page homage to New York CityHere is a kaleidoscopic assemblage and poetic history of New York: an unp...

“This superbly succinct and incisive book” on urban planning and real estate argues gentrification isn’t driven by latte-sipping hipsters—but is en...

It's not capitalism, it's not neoliberalism - what if it's something worse?In this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that inform...

It’s not capitalism, it’s not neoliberalism—what if it’s something worse?In this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that informat...

The fact that communism did not prevail does not mean we are still in capitalism. Capitalist relations are undergoing systemic transformation and b...

A scintillating conversation on capitalism and crisis from two of our most incisive political philosophersCapitalism, by the twenty-first century, ...

A provocative exploration of photography's relationship to capitalism, from leading theorists of visual culture.Photography was invented between th...

What keeps capitalism afloat?The global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for th...

Integrating both social and historical factors, this radical analysis of the development of capitalism reveals the ever-deepening relationship betw...

Integrating both social and historical factors, this radical analysis of the development of capitalism reveals the ever-deepening relationship betw...

Integrating both social and historical factors, this radical analysis of the development of capitalism reveals the ever-deepening relationship betw...

In this major new book, Andre Gorz expands on the political implications of his prescient and influential Paths to Paradise and Critique of Economi...

The classic social history of the Great English Agricultural Uprising of 1839 by two of the greatest historians of our age.In our increasingly mech...

The definitive history of America’s most notorious jail and the violent rise of New York City’s law-and-order movement Captives combines a thrillin...

“A brilliant, revisionist argument that places oil companies at the heart of 20th-century history—and of the political and environmental crises we ...

Oil is a curse, it is often said, that condemns the countries producing it to an existence defined by war, corruption and enormous inequality. Carb...