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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.
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Modern Times, Ancient Hours

by Pietro Basso
Working ever more intensely, at a faster pace and for longer hours, the modern working class needs to renew its struggle.
Malice

by Francois Flahault
The inner roots of malice—good and evil as inherent in the human condition.
Reification

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

Barbecued Husbands

by Betty Mindlin
Winner of the coveted Associacao Paulista de Criticos de Arte Prize: an anthology of the stories of the tribes of the Amazon.
2 posts
The World Is Not for Sale

by José Bové and François Dufour

Recounts the dramatic events of their famous demonstration against McDonald’s and examines the issues behind the resulting campaign.
Cinema and Desire

Edited by Tani E. Barlow and Jing Wang

Dal Jinhau's commentary on Chinese cinema, culture and politics.

7 posts
Animals Like Us

by Mark Rowlands
A manifesto for the moral rights of animals.
1 post

Legalize This!

by Douglas Husak
Exploding the myths that sustain the criminalization of recreational drugs.
Cultural Resistance Reader

Edited by Stephen Duncombe
An invaluable scholarly resource and a tool for political activists.
6 posts
The Business of Books

by André Schiffrin

“A riveting chronicle of the rise and fall of the American reader.”—Village Voice

6 posts
A Plague on Your Houses

by Deborah Wallace and Rodrick Wallace
A frightening study of the way misguided and malevolent social policy can spark a chain reaction of enormous and unforeseen urban collapse.
2 posts

Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City

by Mike Davis
Is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River?
12 posts
Canaries on the Rim

by Chip Ward
A quest to understand the secret history of ecocide in Utah.
Dearest Pet

by Midas Dekkers
“People love animals—a stroke here, a pat there, a quick nuzzle in that gorgeous fur … the amount of cuddling they get can make you jealous. In...
1 post
(Per)Versions of Love and Hate

by Renata Salecl
A unique and timely intervention in contemporary debates on tolerance.
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In the Shadow of the State

by Nicola Miller
A vivid exploration of Spanish American intellectual life.
Female Sexualization

by Frigga Haug
Enlightening perspectives on femininity and sexualization.
6 posts
The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology

by Göran Therborn

“Systematic and penetrating.”—Politics and Society

1 post
Island Stories

by Raphael Samuel
“The sheer scope and erudition of these pages is stunning.”—Terry Eagleton, Guardian
2 posts