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Jasper Bernes | Verso Bookshelf

Browse a selection of Verso titles curated by Jasper Bernes, author of The Future of Revolution. Buy any two books from this list, including preorders of The Future of Revolution, and save 30%.

17 April 2025

Jasper Bernes | Verso Bookshelf

Jasper Bernes is the author of The Future of Revolution and is a regular contributor to the Field Notes section of The Brooklyn Rail. His previous titles include The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization and two books of poetry, We Are Nothing and So Can You and Starsdown.

Buy any two books from this list, including preorders of The Future of Revolution, and save 30%.

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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...
  • The Unseen

    The Unseen

    by Nanni Balestrini

    Preface by Antonio Negri

    Translated by Liz Heron

    For a brief explosive period in the mid-1970s, the young and the unemployed of Italy’s cities joined the workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “poli...
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  • 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...
  • The Antinomies of Realism

    The Antinomies of Realism

    by Fredric Jameson

    The Antinomies of Realism is a history of the nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it imp...
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  • The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I

    The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I

    by Rosa Luxemburg

    Edited by Peter Hudis

    Translated by David Fernbach, Joseph Fracchia and George Shriver

    This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg’s Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg’s most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labor, imperialism, ...
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  • The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II

    The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II

    by Rosa Luxemburg

    Edited by Paul Le Blanc and Peter Hudis

    Translated by Nicholas Gray and George Shriver

    The second volume in Rosa Luxemburg’s Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 2, contains a new English translation of Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital: A Contribution to the Economic The...
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  • Communal Luxury

    Communal Luxury

    by Kristin Ross

    Kristin Ross’s new work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found its most powerful expression...
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  • Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 1

    Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 1

    by Jean-Paul Sartre

    Foreword by Fredric Jameson

    Edited by Jonathan Ree

    Translated by Alan Sheridan-Smith

    At the height of the Algerian war, Jean-Paul Sartre embarked on a fundamental reappraisal of his philosophical and political thought. The result was the Critique of Dialectical Reason, an intellect...
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  • Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 2

    Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 2

    by Jean-Paul Sartre

    Foreword by Fredric Jameson

    Edited by Arlette Elkaim-Sartre

    Translated by Quintin Hoare

    Does history produce discernible meaning? Are human struggles intelligible? These questions form the starting-point for the second volume of Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason. Drafted in 1958...
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  • Hollow Land

    Hollow Land

    by Eyal Weizman

    How does Israel extend its control over Palestinian lands? From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman unravels the mechanisms of control and how ...