Authors

• Reimut Reiche
• Maurice Godelier
• Owen Jones
• Max Weber

• Naila Kabeer
• Giovanni Arrighi
• Immanuel Wallerstein
• Perry Anderson

• Jean Baudrillard
• Pierre Bourdieu
• Henri Lefebvre
• Régis Debray

• Mike Davis
• Roberto Mangabeira Unger
• Alain Supiot
• Slavoj Žižek

• Boaventura de Sousa Santos
• Göran Therborn
• Jack Goody
• Arjun Appadurai

• Lee Baxandall
• Melissa Benn
• Vinayak Chaturvedi
• Barbara J. Fields

• Karen E. Fields
• Nancy Fraser
• Annette Fuentes
• Juan González

• Alfredo Gutierrez
• Jeremy Harding
• Wilhelm Reich
• Jean-Paul Sartre

• Irvin C. Schick
• Joseph Torres
• Valentin Voloshinov

Books

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  The Return of the Public

  by Dan Hind

  Winner 2011 Best Book of Ideas at the Bristol Festival of Ideas

  13 posts

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  Restless Cities

  Edited by Matthew Beaumont and Gregory Dart
  Leading writers reimagine the city as a site of ceaseless change and motion.

  14 posts

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  Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

  by R. H. Tawney
  A classic of political economy that traces the influence of religious thought on capitalism

  5 posts

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  Reification

  by Timothy Bewes
  “Bewes’s book is needed like daily bread.”—Slavoj Žižek

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  Reflections on Anti-Semitism

  by Alain Badiou, Eric Hazan, et al.

  Dissecting how facile accusations of “anti-Semitism” are used to stifle dissent.

  47 posts

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  The Record of the Paper

  by Richard Falk and Howard Friel

  A scathing examination of the editorial practices of the New York Times.

  4 posts

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  Rationality and Irrationality in Economics

  by Maurice Godelier
  An analysis of social and economic systems and why they appear and disappear throughout history.

  6 posts

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  Raiding the Icebox

  by Peter Wollen
  Groundbreaking study of radical subcultures by the influential cultural critic.

  3 posts

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  Radical Technologies

  by Adam Greenfield

  A field manual to the technologies that are changing our lives

  13 posts

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  Radical Happiness

  by Lynne Segal

  A passionate call to rediscover the political and emotional joy that emerges when we share our lives

  14 posts

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  Racecraft

  by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields
  Tackling the myth of a post-racial society.

  60 posts

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  Race, Nation, Class

  by Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein
  The modernity of racism and its relationship to contemporary capitalism.

  53 posts

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  Pure Society

  by André Pichot

  As genetic manipulation comes to dominate medical science, a timely and trenchant history of eugenics.

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  Privatising Culture

  by Chin-tao Wu
  Mapping for the first time the increasingly hegemonic position that corporations and corporate elites have come to occupy in the cultural arena.

  1 post

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  Postmodern Geographies

  by Edward W. Soja
  “One of the most challenging and stimulating books ever written.”—David Harvey

  5 posts

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  Portents of the Real

  by Susan Willis
  The deeper meanings of popular cultural phenomena in post-9/11 America.

  2 posts

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  The Pope Is Not Gay!

  by Angelo Quattrocchi

  A provocative exploration of Pope Benedict XVI’s stance on homosexuality.

  7 posts

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  The Politics of Friendship

  by Jacques Derrida

  Influential exploration of the idea of friendship and its political consequences.

  2 posts

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  Political Interventions

  by Pierre Bourdieu
  Urgent political writings of the major twentieth-century sociologist.

  1 post

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  Police

  by David Correia and Tyler Wall

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

  26 posts