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End of the End of History, The: Politics in the Twenty-First Century Alex Hochuli 9781789045239
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The "End of History" is over. The idea that Western liberal democracy was the "final form of human government" has been exposed as bluster: the old order is crumbling before our eyes. Angry... -
Borderlines: The Edges of US Capitalism, Immigration, and Democracy Daniel Melo 9781789045062
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The current U.S. immigration nightmare is a product of capitalism. The familiar, heartbreaking stories of dangerous treks, migrant exploitation, asylum, family separation and detention all have their... -
On a Common Culture - The Idea of a Shared National Culture by Brian Graham
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64In the United Kingdom, the notion of a common culture has always been suggestive of a national culture which is accessible to all and provides various kinds of benefits to all, including... -
Capitalist Realism (New Edition) – Is there no alternative? by Mark Fisher
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78After 1989, capitalism has presented itself as the only realistic political economic system. What effects has this 'capitalist realism' had on work, culture, education and mental health? Is it... -
Melancology - Black Metal Theory and Ecology Scott Wilson 9781780991894
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Melancology addresses the notorious musical genre black metal as a negative form of environmental writing that 'blackens' the cosmos. This book conjures a new word and concept that conjoins 'black'... -
Dark Matters - A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City Nick Dunn 9781782797487
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Dark Matters explores the city at night as a place and time within which escape from the confines of the daytime is possible. More specifically, it is a state of being. There is a long history of... -
Weird Realism - Lovecraft and Philosophy Graham Harman 9781780992525
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50As Holderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarme to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers. Lovecraft was one of the brightest stars of the horror and science... -
In the Dust of This Planet - Horror of Philosophy vol. 1 Eugene Thacker 9781846946769
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64"Thacker's discourse on the intersection of horror and philosophy is utterly original and utterly captivating..." Thomas Ligotti, author of The Conspiracy Against the Human Race The world is... -
Combined and Uneven Apocalypse - Luciferian Marxism Evan Williams 9781846944680
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50From the repurposed rubble of salvagepunk to undead hordes banging on shopping mall doors, from empty waste zones to teeming plagued cities, Combined and Uneven Apocalypse grapples with the... -
Non Stop Inertia by Ivor Southwood 9781846945304
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.45In our culture of short-term work, mobile communications an rolling media it seems we are always on the move; but are w really getting anywhere? Non-Stop Inertia argues that this appearance of... -
Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left Ben Burgis 9781789042108
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Many serious leftists have learned to distrust talk of logic and logical fallacies, associated with right-wing "logicbros". This is a serious mistake. Unlike the neoliberal technocrats, who can point... -
Advancing Conversations: Aubrey de Grey - Advocate for an Indefinite Human Lifespan by Douglas Lain 9781785353963
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.66Advancing Conversations is a line of interview books documenting conversations with artists, authors, philosophers, economists, scientists, and activists whose works are aimed at the future and at... -
Blowing the Lid - Gay Liberation, Sexual Revolution and Radical Queens Stuart Feather 9781785351433
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £18.53The Gay Liberation Front founded in 1970 urged gay men and gay women to unite around a simple set of demands among which were calls for an end to discrimination against homosexuals in employment, in... -
Continuity and Rupture - Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain J. Moufawad-paul 9781785354762
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.19A philosophical examination of the theoretical terrain of contemporary Maoism premised on the counter-intuitive assumption that Maoism did not emerge as a coherent theory until the end of the 1980s... -
Rebel Rebel - All the songs of David Bowie from `64 to `76 Chris O`leary 9781780992440
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25David Bowie: every single song. Everything you want to know, everything you didn't know. David Bowie remains mysterious and unknowable, despite 45 years of recording and performing. His legacy is... -
Los Indignados: Tides of Social Insertion in Spain Richard R. Weiner 9781785353123
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The emergent Indignados movement in Spain is transforming Spanish politics and society, heralding an end to the Transition since Franco, and responding to multiple legitimation crises in Spain and in... -
Thoughts on an Index Not Freely Given John Roberts 9781785353789
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78In this ambitious theoretical encounter with five imaginary artists from the 1980s, John Roberts produces a set of richly constructed artistic thought experiments. But in creating the work on the... -
How the Establishment Lost Control Chris Nineham 9781785356315
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The post-war consensus is breaking up. The 2014 Scottish referendum, the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader and the turmoil of the EU referendum all testify to an insurgent mood amongst... -
On the Unhappiness of Being Greek by Nikos Dimou 9781780992952
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.30If Noam Chomsky and Gore Vidal have a Greek analogue, it is Nikos Dimou, one of the most fertile minds of his generation. This book is a series of 193 mostly brief, often cutting and at times... -
Hearing the Cloud: Can music help reimagine the future? Emile Frankel 9781785358388
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44Can music be a curse? Here is an alternate history of online politics and new technology from the perspective of listening, typing, composing, and shared hearing. Emile Frankel presents a rigorous... -
Degrowth in Movement(s): Exploring pathways for transformation Nina Treu 9781789041866
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25Degrowth is an emerging social movement that overlaps with proposals for systemic change such as anti-globalization and climate justice, commons and transition towns, basic income and Buen Vivir... -
Good Times in Dystopia George F. 9781789041903
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50London drowns in sewage and Europe burns. In this creative nonfiction, George F. falls in with a band of chaos punks who drink, fight and struggle for shelter when the world ends. From mass... -
Politics of Debt, The: Essays and Interviews Sjoerd van Tuinen 9781789042283
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The Politics of Debt brings together philosophers, political scientists, and economists and sets them the task of reflecting on the political role played by debt. Focusing on the aftermath of the... -
Frontlines: Stories of Global Environmental Justice Nick Meynen 9781789041927
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.19Every unpacked frontline is one cutting edge of an economic system and political ideology that is destroying life on earth. Revealing our ecosystems to be under a sustained attack, Nick Meynen finds... -
New Flesh, The: Life and Death in the Data Economy Adam C. Jones 9781803416120
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40From social media to so-called AI , from cyberpunk society to automated apartheid, The New Flesh asks and answers the same questions: What does it mean to live in an increasingly online world and... -
The Architecture of Failure by Douglas Murphy 9781780990224
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Against those who consider architecture to be a wholly optimistic activity, this book shows how the history of modern architecture is inextricably tied to ideas of failure and ruin. By means of an... -
How to Read a History Book – The Hidden History of History by Marshall Poe 9781780997292
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.83A deconstruction of the modern history book as artifact, How to Read a History Book explains who writes history books, how the writers are trained, and why they write them. It also discusses genre,... -
Shakespeare for Snowflakes: On Slapstick and Sympathy Ian Burrows 9781789041613
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Drawing on plays by Shakespeare, Sarah Kane, Sophocles, Samuel Beckett, and others, this book examines the ways in which these dramatists manipulated the actor's body to demand laughter and/or... -
Zeitgeist Nostalgia: On populism, work and the ‘good life’ by Alessandro Gandini
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.62We live an age of nostalgia, incarnated by populist fantasies of "taking back control" and making nations "great again". In the long aftermath of the 2007-08 economic crisis, nostalgia has been... -
Albion's Secret History: Snapshots of England's Pop Rebels and Outsiders Guy Mankowski 9781789040289
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Albion's Secret History compiles snapshots of English pop culture's rebels and outsiders, from Evelyn Waugh to PJ Harvey via The Long Blondes and The Libertines. By focusing on cultural figures who... -
Serkeftin: A Narrative of the Rojava Revolution Marcel Cartier 9781789040128
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789040128Author Marcel CartierFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Zero BooksPublisher Zero Books -
New Work New Culture: Work we want and a culture that strengthens us Frithjof Bergmann 9781789040647
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.45The "job system" for organizing work has only existed for around 200 years - since the industrial revolution. Always problematic, it now approaches collapse, and what follows, either for... -
Night: A Philosophy of the After-Dark Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh 9781789042771
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02This short book engages the myriad dimensions of Night, through ancient rituals, medieval storytelling, modern philosophy, and futuristic images, in order to explore the human experience of the... -
Murder in Notting Hill by Mark Olden
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64The truth about one of Britain's most infamous race murders has never been revealed. At around midnight on May 17 1959, a white gang ambushed 32-year-old Antiguan carpenter Kelso Cochrane on a... -
Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-porn Addicts - A defence of growth, progress, industry and stuff Leigh Phillips 9781782799603
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.04Economic growth, progress, industry and, erm, stuff have all come in for a sharp kicking from the green left and beyond in recent years. Everyone from black-hoodied Starbucks window-smashers to... -
Sweetening the Pill - or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control Holly Grigg-spall 9781780996073
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26"Holly Grigg-Spall is fearless, and her courageous advocacy on behalf of women whose stories are too often silenced is a model for others trying to make positive change through health activism. Read... -
Post Cinematic Affect by Steven Shaviro 9781846944314
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Post-Cinematic Affect is about what it feels like to live in the affluent West in the early 21st century. Specifically, it explores the structure of feeling that is emerging today in tandem with new... -
Quadruple Object, The Graham Harman 9781846947001
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40"Harman's style often evokes that of a William James merged with the spirit of H.P. Lovecraft." Olivier Surel in Actu Philosophia In this book the metaphysical system of Graham Harman is presented... -
Starry Speculative Corpse - Horror of Philosophy vol. 2 Eugene Thacker 9781782798910
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Could it be that the more we know about the world, the less we understand it? Could it be that, while everything has been explained, nothing has meaning? Extending the ideas presented in his book In... -
Did You Kill Anyone?: Reunderstanding My Military Experience as a Critique of Modern Culture Scott Beauchamp 9781785357862
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Most American soldiers in Iraq had a deep, thick plastic box called a "guerrilla box" which usually sat at the end of their cot. Soldiers would keep all kinds of things in their box. Weapon...