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Mass culture: pro or con? From the time of Adorno and Horkheimer’s seminal essay on “the culture industry,” cultural studies has stood in the shado...

Régis Debray is one of France’s leading intellectuals, whose life has intersected with key moments of the twentieth century.In this explosive memoi...

Responding to the US’s perpetual war, Butler explores how mourning could inspire solidarity.In this profound appraisal of post-September 11, 2001 A...

A brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United StatesPrisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a p...

“The essential public good that Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and now Cameron sell is not power stations, or trains, or hospitals. It’s the public ...

“The essential public good that Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and now Cameron sell is not power stations, or trains, or hospitals. It’s the public ...

Corporate sponsorship and business involvement in the visual arts have become increasingly common features of our cultural lives. From Absolut Vodk...

“It is frightening to think the [Jon Wiener] teaches history at a university ... ”—Jacques Derrida“Wiener takes the modern university as his beat, ...

Financialization is one of the most innovative concepts to emerge in the field of political economy during the last three decades, although there i...

Financialization is one of the most innovative concepts to emerge in the field of political economy during the last three decades, although there i...

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...

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...

Psychoanalysis and Feminism presents a profound and groundbreaking case for Freud’s writing as an indispensable part of feminist thought. As Juliet...

Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate ...

Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate ...

Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate ...

In the years of the Reagan–Bush era, the controversy over ‘political correctness’ erupted on American campuses, spreading to the mainstream media a...

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...

This collection covers a wide range of topics, from a moving study of Bizet’s Carmen to an entertainingly caustic exploration of the hierarchies of...