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Full Surrogacy Now

by Sophie Lewis

Where pregnancy is concerned, let every pregnancy be for everyone. Let us overthrow, in short, the “family”

17 posts
China in One Village

by Liang Hong

A global future in the history of a single village

4 posts
The World in a Selfie

by Marco d’Eramo

A spirited critique of the cultural politics of sightseeing. Or, why we are all tourists who hate tourists

1 post
The Imperial Mode of Living

by Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen

Our unsustainable life: why we can’t have everything we want

1 post

A Critical Theory of Police Power

by Mark Neocleous

Putting police power into the centre of the picture of capitalism

10 posts
Critical Encounters

by Wolfgang Streeck

An anthology of long-read book reviews by one of the European left’s foremost political economists

2 posts
Mutual Aid

by Dean Spade

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.

15 posts
The Politics of Friendship

by Jacques Derrida

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5 posts

Care Manifesto

by The Care Collective

We are in the midst of a global crisis of care. How do we get out of it?

12 posts
The Twittering Machine

by Richard Seymour

A brilliant probe into the political and psychological effects of our changing relationship with social media

2 posts
The Invention of the Jewish People

by Shlomo Sand

The bestselling study of Jewish history

40 posts
Social Class in Europe

by Cédric Hugrée, Etienne Pénissat, et al.

Mapping the class divisions that run throughout Europe

1 post

Class, Race, and Marxism

by David R. Roediger

Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race/class relationship

26 posts
The Authoritarian Personality

by Theodor Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, et al.

Hugely influential study of the psychology of authoritarianism

17 posts
New Dark Age

by James Bridle

How the Information Age makes the world more incomprehensible

21 posts
The Burning Forest: India’s War Against the Maoists

by Nandini Sundar

An empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, and homes and communities destroyed

4 posts

Radical Happiness

by Lynne Segal

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

14 posts
City of Segregation

by Andrea Gibbons

A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los Angeles

4 posts
Claude Lévi-Strauss: A Critical Study of His Thought

by Maurice Godelier

One of the world’s leading anthropologists assesses the work of the founder of structural anthropology

1 post
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

by Mike Davis

A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.’s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiracies

21 posts

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