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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
Restless Cities

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

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

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
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
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
Raiding the Icebox

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

Radical Technologies

by Adam Greenfield

A field manual to the technologies that are changing our lives

14 posts
Radical Happiness

by Lynne Segal

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

13 posts
Racecraft

by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields

Tackling the myth of a post-racial society.

62 posts
Race, Nation, Class

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

Pure Society

by André Pichot

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

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

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

The Pope Is Not Gay!

by Angelo Quattrocchi

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

7 posts
The Politics of Friendship

by Jacques Derrida

Influential exploration of the idea of friendship and its political consequences

4 posts
Political Interventions

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

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