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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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  • The Unseen
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    The Unseen

    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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  • The Antinomies of Realism
    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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  • Sinews of War and Trade
    On the map of global trade, China is now the factory of the world. A parade of ships full of raw commodities—iron ore, coal, oil—arrive in its ports, and fleets of container ships leave with manufa...
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  • The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I
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    The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I

    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
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    The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II

    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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  • Fossil Capital
    The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess?In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began...
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  • Communal Luxury
    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
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    Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 1

    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
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    Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 2

    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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