Philosophy

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  The Transparency of Evil

  by Jean Baudrillard
  Sex, technology, politics and disease in Western culture, after the ‘orgy’ of the 1960s.
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  Walter Benjamin

  by Terry Eagleton
  A classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theorist. 
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  War and Cinema

  by Paul Virilio
  A rich and suggestive analysis of military “ways of seeing”
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  Atheism in Christianity

  by Ernst Bloch
  Visionary utopian thinker finds the atheist core of the Bible.

  2 posts

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  Ideologies of Theory

  by Fredric Jameson
  An expanded and updated collection of Jameson's essays.
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  My Teaching

  by Jacques Lacan
  The father of psychoanalytic philosophy's invaluable introduction to his own thought, available in English for the first time.
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  The Sublime Object of Ideology

  by Slavoj Žižek
  Exploring the ideologies fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society.

  3 posts

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  The Ticklish Subject

  by Slavoj Žižek
  A specter is haunting Western thought, the specter of the Cartesian subject.

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  The Fragile Absolute

  by Slavoj Žižek
  Argues that the subversive core of the Christian legacy forms the foundation of a politics of universal emancipation.

  1 discussion

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  The Plague of Fantasies

  by Slavoj Žižek
  The relations between fantasy and ideology, and the deluge of digital phantasms surrounding us.

  1 post

  1 discussion

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  Non-Places

  by Marc Auge
  A provocative study of the 'non-space' which defines our age's love for excess of information and space.
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  Infinitely Demanding

  by Simon Critchley
  A new political ethics that confronts the injustices of liberal democracy.

  4 posts

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  The Poulantzas Reader

  by Nicos Poulantzas
  Key writings of the great political theorist, including his debate with Ralph Miliband on the state.
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  Critique of Everyday Life Volume One

  by Henri Lefebvre
  A groundbreaking analysis of the alienating phenomena of daily life under capitalism.

  3 posts

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  Critique of Everyday Life Volume Two

  by Henri Lefebvre
  Identifies categories within everyday life, such as the theory of the semantic field and the theory of moments.

  1 post

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  Critique of Everyday Life Volume Three

  by Henri Lefebvre
  Explores the crisis of modernity and the decisive assertion of technological modernism.

  1 post