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Radical Technologies

by Adam Greenfield

A field manual to the technologies that are changing our lives

14 posts
Hara Hotel

by Teresa Thornhill

A first-hand account of a Greek refugee camp—and the stories of the refugees staying there

7 posts
Deport, Deprive, Extradite

by Nisha Kapoor

The extradition of terror suspects reveals the worst features of the security state

12 posts
Work

by Andrea Komlosy

Tracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout history

6 posts

Police

by David Correia and Tyler Wall

Radical glossary of the vocabulary of policing that redefines the very way we understand law enforcement

28 posts
The New Spirit of Capitalism

by Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello

New edition of this major work examining the development of neoliberalism

11 posts
Violent Borders

by Reece Jones

A major new exploration of the refugee crisis, focusing on how borders are formed and policed

50 posts
Fanaticism

by Alberto Toscano

A genealogy of fanaticism—unearthing its long history, before it became a tool in the Clash of Civilizations

21 posts

De Colores Means All of Us

by Elizabeth Martínez

A radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identity

16 posts
Lavil

Edited by Evan Lyon and Peter Orner

Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisis

4 posts
Chasing the Harvest

Edited by Gabriel Thompson

Lives from an invisible community—the migrant farmworkers of the United States

4 posts
Twilight of History

by Shlomo Sand

The acclaimed and controversial historian turns his critical gaze on the writing of history today

6 posts

Homo Juridicus

by Alain Supiot

A provocative investigation of how law shapes everyday life

3 posts
The Bonds of Debt

by Richard Dienst

Indebtedness as the universal condition of modern life

9 posts
Storytelling

by Christian Salmon

The narrative spell cast over politics and society

7 posts
Buda’s Wagon

by Mike Davis
The brilliant and disturbing 100-year history of the “poor man’s air force,” the ubiquitous weapon of urban mass destruction
14 posts

Late Victorian Holocausts

by Mike Davis

A magisterial melding of global ecological and political history, disclosing the nineteenth-century roots of underdevelopment in what became the Third World

16 posts
Planet of Slums

by Mike Davis
The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world’s slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live
28 posts
The Debate on Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital

Edited by Vivek Chibber and Rosie Warren

Leading thinkers’ critiques of award-winning Postcolonial Theory, as well as the author’s responses and reformulations

3 posts
Darkwater

by W.E.B. Du Bois

Essential reading for students of African-American history

21 posts

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