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Secular Devotion

by Timothy Brennan
Illuminating exploration of Afro-Latin music’s challenge to Western cultural imperialism.
3 posts
The History of Forgetting

by Norman M. Klein

Analysis, photography and fiction combine in a bracing portrait of LA.

1 post
Lockdown America

by Christian Parenti

Updated edition of the classic examination of the link between crime and politics.

12 posts
Raiding the Icebox

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

Critique of Everyday Life, Vol. 1

by Henri Lefebvre
A groundbreaking analysis of the alienating phenomena of daily life under capitalism.
3 posts
Critique of Everyday Life, Vol. 2

by Henri Lefebvre
Identifies categories within everyday life, such as the theory of the semantic field and the theory of moments.
2 posts
Critique of Everyday Life, Vol. 3

by Henri Lefebvre
Explores the crisis of modernity and the decisive assertion of technological modernism.
1 post
Political Interventions

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

What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?

by Göran Therborn

The intricate practices of the elite and how they maintain their dominance.

7 posts
The Gospels

In this new presentation of the Gospels, renowned thinker Terry Eagleton asks: was Jesus a revolutionary?

1 post
The Wages of Whiteness

by David R. Roediger

An original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States.

23 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

Infancy and History

by Giorgio Agamben
A profound meditation on language and philosophy, nature and culture, and the birth of the subject.
8 posts
Inequalities of the World

Edited by Göran Therborn
A groundbreaking exploration of global inequality.
Moving Mountains

by Anne-Christine D'Adesky

Fully updated analysis of the global fight to treat HIV and AIDS.
The Metastases of Enjoyment

by Slavoj Žižek
The status of women and the role of violence in contemporary culture and politics.
1 post

Portents of the Real

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

by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Volume 2 of Politics, a work in constructive social theory.
2 posts
God

by Régis Debray
Traces the episodes of the genesis of God, His itinerary and the costs of His survival, with an eye on the machinery of its production.
2 posts
Culture in the Age of Three Worlds

by Michael Denning
Denning analyses the political and intellectual battles over the meanings of culture.
2 posts

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