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Passerby Club

Discounted books for Passerby Club members!

Verso Books22 August 2022

Passerby Club

All of the books below are 40% off just for Passerby Club members!

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  • Happy Hour

    Happy Hour

    by Marlowe Granados

    With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, Marlowe Granados’s stunning début brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York CityRefreshing and wry in ...
    Paperback

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  • Self-Defense

    Self-Defense

    by Elsa Dorlin

    Translated by Kieran Aarons

    Is violent self-defense ethical? In the history of colonialism, racism, sexism, capitalism, there has long been a dividing line between bodies "worthy of defending" and those who have been disar...
  • The Intervals of Cinema

    The Intervals of Cinema

    by Jacques Rancière

    Translated by John Howe

    The cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book the acclaimed philosopher Jacques Rancière relates cinema to literature and theatre. With literature, ...
    Paperback

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  • Minima Moralia

    Minima Moralia

    by Theodor Adorno

    Translated by Edmund F.N. Jephcott

    Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about life in modern capitalist society. Adorno casts his penetrating eye across society in mid-cen...
  • Feminist City

    Feminist City

    by Leslie Kern

    What should a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run. A public space wi...
    Paperback

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  • Girl Online

    Girl Online

    by Joanna Walsh

    The unwritten contract of the internet, that a user is what is used, extends from the well-examined issue of data privacy and consent to the very selves women are encouraged to create in order to a...
    Hardback

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  • The Care Manifesto

    The Care Manifesto

    by The Care Collective

    The Care Manifesto is the fiercely argued demand to place care at the centre of our politics. Our lives are always interdependent. It is by nurturing these ties that we cultivate a world in which e...
    Paperback
    Preorder Sale price $22.95

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  • On Ideology

    On Ideology

    by Louis Althusser

    Translated by Ben Brewster

    The publication of For Marx and Reading Capital established Louis Althusser as one of the most influential figures in the Western Marxist tradition. On Ideology charts Althusser’s critique of the t...
  • Terminal Boredom

    Terminal Boredom

    by Izumi Suzuki

    Translated by Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi and Helen O'Horan

    On a planet where men are contained in ghettoised isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia -- until a boy escapes and a young woman's perception of the world is violently int...
  • One-Way Street

    One-Way Street

    by Walter Benjamin

    Introduction by Susan Sontag

    Translated by Edmund F.N. Jephcott and Kingsley Shorter

    Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings...