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 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

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  The Imperial Mode of Living

  by Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen

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

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  A Critical Theory of Police Power

  by Mark Neocleous

  Putting police power into the centre of the picture of capitalism

  4 posts

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  Critical Encounters

  by Wolfgang Streeck

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

  2 posts

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  Mutual Aid

  by Dean Spade

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

  10 posts

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  The Politics of Friendship

  by Jacques Derrida

  Influential exploration of the idea of friendship and its political consequences

  4 posts

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  Care Manifesto

  by The Care Collective

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

  7 posts

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  The Twittering Machine

  by Richard Seymour

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

  1 post

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  The Invention of the Jewish People

  by Shlomo Sand

  The bestselling study of Jewish history

  38 posts

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  Social Class in Europe

  by Cédric Hugrée, Etienne Pénissat, et al.

  Mapping the class divisions that run throughout Europe

  1 post

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  Class, Race, and Marxism

  by David R. Roediger

  Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race/class relationship

  26 posts

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  The Authoritarian Personality

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

  Hugely influential study of the psychology of authoritarianism

  15 posts

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  New Dark Age

  by James Bridle

  How the Information Age makes the world more incomprehensible

  19 posts

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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”

  16 posts

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  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

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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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  City of Segregation

  by Andrea Gibbons

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

  4 posts

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  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

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  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

  20 posts

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  Out of the Wreckage

  by George Monbiot

  What does the good life—and the good society—look like in the twenty-first century?

  9 posts