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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

Infinite Tropics

by Alfred Russel Wallace

This collection comprises Wallace’s best writing on science, nature and society.

2 posts
Rumba on the River

by Gary Stewart
Rumba on the River presents a snapshot of an era when the currents of tradition and modernization collided along the banks of the Congo.
3 posts
The Pig and the Skyscraper

by Marco d’Eramo

“Serious-minded and acutely insightful social analysis.”—Bookwatch

1 post
The Return of the White Plague

Edited by Matthew Gandy and Alimuddin Zumla

A global health catastrophe threatens to undermine all efforts to eradicate poverty and human suffering.

Where Vultures Feast

by Oronto Douglas and Ike Okonta

A devastating case against the world’s largest oil company.

3 posts
Crime in Literature

by Vincenzo Ruggiero
Addresses the issues of crime and crime control through the reading of several classical literary works.
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.
1 post
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.

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