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Can I please read this book?

Here in the UK, it is very hard to get a copy of this book for under £25. I have requested on the Amazon.co.uk site that a Kindle edition be published (giving the scarcity of this book) but I fear that it may take some time.

So, here I am. Pleading with you to please, please make this book available to those who wish to pay a fair price for it, and not an exorbitant amount as listed on Amazon.

May this reach the necessary people promptly! and if not... please log onto Amazon.co.uk and request the publisher create a kindle edition.

That is all, thank you.

In response to The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens

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Distributing OCCUPY

I saw that this text is to be distributed free at occupy sites. I'm with Occupy PDX and how can I get involved in getting this important book out there?

In response to Occupy! Edited by Carla Blumenkranz, Keith Gessen, et al.

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Kindle Version

Is there a Kindle version for "News For All the People" planned?

Thanks. God Bless.

Aaron.

In response to News For All the People by Juan González and Joseph Torres

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Communism, A New Beginning?

Slavoj Žižek hosts a conference at Cooper Union in New York, to discuss the continued relevance of the communist idea.

“The long night of the Left is coming to a close” wrote Slavoj Žižek and Costas Douzinas in their introduction to The Idea of Communism. The continuing economic crisis, the shift away from a unipolar world defined by American hegemony, and the ecological crisis mean that growing numbers of people are keen to explore an alternative, and to rediscover the idea of communism. With the advent of the Arab Revolts, millions have sought new ways to overcome corruption and dictatorship—and they've now been joined by the wave of occupations in the US, challenging runaway inequality and the power of corporations and the super-rich.

Friday, Oct 14, 6–9pm EDT: Slavoj Žižek, Frank Ruda, and Alain Badiou read by Bruno Bosteels.

Saturday, Oct 15, 10am–1pm EDT: Bruno Bosteels and Susan Buck-Morss.

Saturday, Oct 15, 3–7pm EDT: Adrian Johnston and Etienne Balibar.

Sunday, Oct 16, 10am–1pm EDT: Jodi Dean and Slavoj Žižek.

In response to The Idea of Communism Edited by Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Žižek

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Did Zizek read Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472)?

When Zizek says that there remain only two teories that still show and practice the engaged notion of the real: marxism and psicoanalisis, I started to wonder if he had read Alberti. I consider that this humanist from the Renaissance developped a theory that practices and engages a notion of the real in many of his books including De re aedificatoria. So if Zizek read him, I would like to know why he doesn´t consider his theory as so.

In response to In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Žižek

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