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Less Than Nothing
“I am writing a mega-book about Hegel. It is a true work of love. This is my true life’s work. Even Lacan is just a tool for me to read Hegel." —Slavoj Žižek
Authors
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Ellen Meiksins Wood
"Meiksins Wood is a rare breed-an academic with the soul of a storyteller." - <em>Morning Star</em>
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Alain Supiot
"France's most incisive jurist"–Perry Anderson
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Jacques Rancière
"One of our most stimulating thinkers"-<em>Paris Match</em>
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Alain Badiou
“Tunisia, Egypt: the Eastern wind shakes the arrogance of the West.”
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Boris Groys
"Groys combines revelatory analysis with philosophical questions that go to the heart of cultural production today." — Iwona Blazwick
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Ross Perlin
“The internship boom is only three decades old—a sprawling, unstudied, unregulated mess.”
Books
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Chavs
by Owen Jones
Bestselling investigation into the myth and reality of working-class life in contemporary Britain
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The Case for Sanctions Against Israel
Edited by Audrea Lim
Leading international voices argue for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel.
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The Return of the Public
by Dan Hind
Winner 2011 Best Book of Ideas at the Bristol Festival of Ideas
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Rebel Cities
by David Harvey
Manifesto on the urban commons from the acclaimed theorist.
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The Lives of Things
A surreal short story collection from the master of what-ifs
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The Least of All Possible Evils
Groundbreaking exploration of the philosophy underpinning Western humanitarian intervention.by Eyal Weizman
Events
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May 24, 2012
Baltimore, Maryland
The Ric Pfeffer Lecture: David Harvey
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June 02, 2012
New York, NY
Liberal Imperialism and American Insurgents: Richard Seymour in New York City
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June 05, 2012
Brooklyn, NY
J. Hoberman at DUMBO Lit
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June 06, 2012
New York, NY
Tracing Creative Destruction with David Harvey and Matthew Buckingham
Blog
Postcards from Žižek: Big Think features Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
Today, Big Think hosts their exclusive interview with Slavoj Žižek on the publication of his new book Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism. In this 3-minute segment, Žižek discusses some of the key issues that frame his more than 1,000-page mega-book on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who Žižek considers his most important influence.
An excerpt and discussion of Belén Fernández's The Imperial Messenger
On Wednesday, May 23rd at 1pm Eastern, Verso Books' author Belén Fernández will respond to reader comments and questions on Gawker about her book The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work. An excerpt from her polemical dissection of Thomas Friedman's body of work will accompany the discussion. Log in to join the conversation.
Shlomo Sand receives death threat
Shlomo Sand, an Israeli historian and the author of The Invention of the Jewish People, received a death threat on Sunday. According to Ha'aretz, an envelope containing white powder and a letter that referred to Sand as an anti-Semite and a Nazi arrived at Tel Aviv University's Department of History, where Sand is a professor. The Israeli police have since examined the white powder and found that it is probably not dangerous, but the investigation is still ongoing.
Sand's newest book, The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland, is a follow-up to 2009's The Invention of the Jewish People. He told Ha'aretz that he believes it is possible that his books, which have previously sparked controversies, prompted the death threat.
Visit Ha'aretz to read the article in full.
'The boycott will work' - exclusive extracts from The Case For Sanctions Against Israel at Ceasefire magazine
May 15th is Nakba Day - commemorating 64 years since the establishment of Israel and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, many of whom, with their descendants, are still refugees.
To mark Nakba Day, Ceasefire magazine publish two exclusive extracts from The Case For Sanctions Against Israel (also published today).
Hind Awwad, a co-ordinator with the Palestinian BDS National Committee, writes:
As the world watched the Arab Spring, many Palestinians saw traces of Palestine's revolution, particularly of the first Intifada-the popular uprising of 1987—and in the beautiful spirit of the young revolutionaries.
The fall of the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt was celebrated in Palestinian households not only because it promised a return of Arab resistance, a constant dimension of the Palestinian cause but hijacked by the dictatorships for so many years, but also because it was a reminder that Palestine continues to bring people together: those struggling in many places around the world against injustice of all kinds...
The BDS movement has provided a way for us to break our collective chains.
Awwad's piece, BDS: Six Years of Success, goes on to chart some of the many successes of the BDS movement over the last few years. Read the full piece at Ceasefire.
Also published today, esteemed Israeli 'new historian' Ilan Pappe explains why he supports BDS and why he believes that it will work: