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The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital
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The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth
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The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism
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The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
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The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising
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Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization
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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
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Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown
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Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza
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Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market
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The Political Writings
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Nuclear is Not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change
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The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media
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A Philosophy of War: Why We Fight
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Freud and the Non-European
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Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis
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The Homegrown City: Reclaiming the Metropolis for its Users
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Racial Fictions
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Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters
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Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London
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Scam: Inside Southeast Asia's Cybercrime Compounds
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A Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion
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For an Ecology of Images
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Walter Benjamin: Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism
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The Flowers of Evil: The Definitive English Language Edition
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What Comes After Farce?: Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle
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The Jewelers of the Ummah: A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World
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Understanding Brecht
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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
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Mimesis: The Literature of the Soviet Avant-Garde
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Into the Melée: Culture/Politics/Intellectuals
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What Is Cultural Criticism?
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Ideology: An Introduction
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Inventions of a Present: The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization
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Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism
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History Made Conscious: Politics of Knowledge, Politics of the Past
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Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism
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The Origin of German Tragic Drama
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Only a Voice: Essays
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Viewing Velocities: Time in Contemporary Art
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Class War: A Literary History




















































