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The Verso Archive featuring Protean Magazine

VIDEO: The team behind Protean Magazine makes their way through the Verso Archive

11 December 2025

The Verso Archive featuring Protean Magazine

Protean Magazine (Publisher Steven Monacelli, Editor-in-Chief Tyler Walicek, Associate Editor Jake Romm, and Poetry Editor Dominick Knowles) visits our offices in New York City and the team makes their way through the Verso Archive, sharing some of the titles that have influenced their work.

Books mentioned in the video:

Steven Monacelli, Publisher

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Tyler Walicek, Editor-in-Chief

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Jake Romm, Associate Editor

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Dominick Knowles, Poetry Editor

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Other titles mentioned: 

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Book strip #1

  • Inventing the Future

    Inventing the Future

    by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams

    Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite.Inve...
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  • The Beach Beneath the Street

    The Beach Beneath the Street

    by McKenzie Wark

    Over fifty years after the Situationist International appeared, its legacy continues to inspire activists, artists and theorists around the world. Such a legend has accrued to this movement that...
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Book strip #2

Book strip #3

  • Non-Places

    Non-Places

    by Marc Augé

    Translated by John Howe

    An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computer and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Auge c...
  • Déjà Vu and the End of History

    Déjà Vu and the End of History

    by Paolo Virno

    Translated by David Broder

    This book places two key notions up against each other to imagine a new way of conceptualizing historical time. How do the experience of déjà vu and the idea 'End of History' relate to one another?...
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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...

Book strip #4

  • Class War

    Class War

    by Mark Steven

    A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat. In a narrative that spans the...
  • The Age of the Poets

    The Age of the Poets

    by Alain Badiou

    Introduction by Emily Apter and Bruno Bosteels

    Translated by Bruno Bosteels

    The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger’s famous arguments. Philosophy neither has to ban the p...
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Book strip #5

  • Rebel Cities

    Rebel Cities

    by David Harvey

    Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and politica...
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  • Philosophy for Militants

    Philosophy for Militants

    by Alain Badiou

    Translated by Bruno Bosteels

    An urgent and provocative account of the modern 'militant', a transformative figure at the front line of emancipatory politics. Around the world, recent events have seen the creation of a radical p...
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  • Dearest Pet

    Dearest Pet

    by Midas Dekkers

    Translated by Paul Vincent

    “People love animals—a stroke here, a pat there, a quick nuzzle in that gorgeous fur … the amount of cuddling they get can make you jealous. In Holland, dogs are caressed more than people. Not as...
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