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Slavoj Žižek

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The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations

by Max Weber

In his neglected masterpiece, Weber brings sociology to bear on civilizations as diverse as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome

1 post
The Beach Beneath the Street

by McKenzie Wark

The acclaimed, readable history of the Situationist International by the author of A Hacker Manifesto

62 posts
Molecular Red

by McKenzie Wark

Radical new critical theory for the twenty-first century

65 posts
The Spectacle of Disintegration

by McKenzie Wark

Acclaimed author follows the work of the Situationist International after May 1968.

40 posts

Latin

by Françoise Waquet

A highly original and accessible history of Latin between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries.
The Red Years: Theory, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Japanese ’68

Edited by Gavin Walker

The story of Japan’s forgotten radical 1968

1 post
In Defence of the Terror

by Sophie Wahnich
Provocative reassessment of the Great Terror as a price worth paying
14 posts
America's Kingdom

by Robert Vitalis
A groundbreaking account of Aramco as a microcosm of the colonial order.
5 posts

Viramma

by Viramma

An intensely personal and moving self-portrait of a woman living at the very margins of Indian society, informed by a sense of profound social change.

2 posts
A History of Gold and Money

by Pierre Vilar
“A work of sweeping scholarship, it is impressive and welcome in English.”—The Economist
6 posts
2017 Verso Radical Diary

by Verso Books
A stylish diary with dates from across worldwide radical history
2 posts
2022 Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner

by Verso Books

The best-selling radical diary and weekly planner is back for 2022!

2 posts

Verso 2017 Mixtape

by Verso Books

FREE ebook collection of extracts from our top books of 2017
The Autonomous City

by Alexander Vasudevan

A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the city

11 posts
Plasticity into Power

by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Volume 3 of Politics, a work in constructive social theory.
The Religion of the Future

by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
A new philosophy of religion for a secular world
4 posts

A Very British Conspiracy

by Eileen Turnbull

The story of the campaign for justice for the 24 building workers wrongly prosecuted by the state in the 1970s
Terrorism and Communism

by Leon Trotsky

Trotsky and Slavoj Žižek defend revolutionary violence

5 posts
Fire and Blood

by Enzo Traverso

Europe’s second Thirty Years’ War—an epoch of blood and ashes

32 posts
Revolution: An Intellectual History

by Enzo Traverso

A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century’s age of revolutions

6 posts

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