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New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

by James Bridle

How computation makes it more difficult to understand the world: Fully updated and revised

22 posts
The Hidden Injuries of Class

by Jonathan Cobb and Richard Sennett

How to find dignity and a meaningful life in the modern city

3 posts
They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life

by Alva Gotby

The work of love is a feminist problem, and it demands feminist solutions.

8 posts
The Choreography of Everyday Life

by Annie-B Parson

A renowned choreographer explores the dance of everyday life and reveals that art-making is as natural as walking down the street

6 posts

Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

by Sophie Lewis

What if family were not the only place you might hope to feel safe, loved, cared for and accepted?

15 posts
Combat Trauma

by Nadia Abu El-Haj

A rigorous and incisive study of combat trauma and American militarism

1 post
Police

by David Correia and Tyler Wall

A radical guide to the language of policing

27 posts
Daddy Issues

by Katherine Angel

On the fraught bonds between daughters and their fathers, women and the patriarchy.

2 posts

Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World

by Jonathan Crary

Selected as one of LitHub's 38 Favorite Books of 2022

2 posts
Ecology of Fear

by Mike Davis

A new edition of this classic book on Los Angeles

4 posts
Racecraft

by Barbara J. Fields and Karen E. Fields

A new edition of a celebrated contemporary work on race and racism

65 posts
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
A Critical Theory of Police Power

by Mark Neocleous

Putting police power into the centre of the picture of capitalism

12 posts

Dearest Pet

by Midas Dekkers

1 post
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.

19 posts
The Politics of Friendship

by Jacques Derrida

6 posts

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