The Selfie and the Self: In Defence of Duckface
In this essay, Nathan Jurgenson defends the selfie from its critics. Neither basic, nor narcissistic, the selfie is a mirror of identity; a performance that reveals far more than it conceals.
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The Use of Pleasures: Foucault on Sexual Practice
In this edited excerpt from The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey views Foucault's life through his thought on desire, S&M and new forms of sexual practice in '70s gay culture:
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The many interpretations of Rosa Luxemburg's legacy
An excerpt from J.P. Nettl's re-issued biography of Rosa Luxemburg.
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Money: 5,000 Years of Debt and Power
In this excerpt from Money, Michel Aglietta insists that money be seen as "an essentially political animal," arguing against the "three lies" relied upon by financial theory and the financial lobby it serves.
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Sneak peak of Eugene V. Debs: A Graphic Biography
Check out a preview of the new graphic biography of Eugene Debs, coming out next February!
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The Honey Mushroom by Jenny Hval
An exclusive excerpt from Jenny Hval's debut novel, Paradise Rot.
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Freud and the Non-European
In this excerpt from Freud and the Non-European, Edward Said describes his method of situating historic thinkers and writers “contrapuntally.”
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News For All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media
In this excerpt, Juan González and Joseph Torres argue for the importance of understanding the history of race and the American media system in order for a “democratic revolution of the U.S. media” to succeed.
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Prisoners of the American Dream
Mike Davis reflects on the political lessons of the 1970s and 1980s and poses questions still relevant for the left today.
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Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump
Asad Haider traces the trajectory of “identity politics” and challenges our understanding of the politics of race in this excerpt from Mistaken Identity.
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Mahmoud Darwish: Mural
"Tell me the name of your wound and I’ll tell you the road/where we’ll lose ourselves twice!"
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish was one of the greatest writers of the past half-century. In this extract from his long poem Mural, Darwish draws on themes of loss and longing for this beautiful meditation on exile.
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Frantz Fanon in Algiers
“Non, non, non: stay upright on your own two feet and keep moving forward to goals of your own," said Frantz Fanon to Elaine Mokhtefi in Algiers.
