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Bombing its way into the headlines of the early 1970s, the Weather Underground was one of the most dramatic symbols of the anger felt by young Amer...

A Communist, feminist, and analysand asks what the social function of psychoanalysis should be and condemns what it has become The Weary Sons of Fr...

What if ending racial injustice means transforming not just wealth, but time itself?Mieroop-Al Bahrani explores how capitalism, racism, debt and in...

Published in collaboration with WikiLeaks: What Cablegate tells us about US foreign policyWhen WikiLeaks first came to prominence in 2010 by releas...

What Cablegate tells us about the reach and ambitions of US Empire. Published in collaboration with WikiLeaks.WikiLeaks came to prominence in 2010 ...

Since it was founded in 1982, The Wire magazine has covered a vast range of alternative, experimental, underground and non-mainstream music. Now so...

An elegant guide to twentieth-century French literature and thought. The Word from Paris is a lucid and accessible guide to the literature and thou...

Tomdispatch.com has established itself as the go-to blog for contemporary US politics, and the favored website for leading commentators; its powerf...

"A restless visionary striving to realize the highest aspirations of modernity itself."–New York TimesA radical re-envisioning of the human conditi...

Radical universalism vs postcolonial theoryThe World in a Grain of Sand offers a framework for reading literature from the global South that goes a...

A spirited critique of the cultural politics of the tourist age. Or, why we are all tourists who hate touristsWe've all been tourists at some point...

In this lively and hard-hitting book Jose Bove and Francois Dufour recount the dramatic events of their famous demonstration against McDonald’s and...

A history and theory of settler colonialism and social controlMany would rather change worlds than change the world. The settlement of communities ...

Written by the pioneering scientist, theorist and activist J. D. Bernal, this futuristic essay explores the radical changes to human bodies and int...

A pocket color manifesto for a new futuristic feminismInjustice should not simply be accepted as “the way things are.” This is the starting point f...

Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, ...

Magisterial lectures on the major figures of French theory from 'America’s leading Marxist critic'Fredric Jameson introduces here the major themes ...

Vivid account and reflection on two struggles that are at the heart of the contestation of neoliberal technocracy and the stateAt a time of ever mo...

AN OUTSIDER’S GUIDE TO MODERN PARISIn The Zone, Justinien Tribillon takes the reader on a tour of an eponymous Parisian hinterland. The site of dre...

When Theatres of Memory was first published in 1994, it transformed the debate about what is to be considered history and questioned the role of “h...

"A fascinating and exhaustive explanation as to why emotions are a political issue."–Brit Dawson, AnOther MagazineThe work of love is a feminist pr...