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Demarcation and Demystification: Philosophy and its limits by J. Moufawad-Paul 9781789042269
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44Marx once declared that philosophers have only interpreted the world, but the point is to change it. Demarcation and Demystification examines the ways in which a radical practice of philosophy is... -
Politics by Other Means – Selected Criticism from Review 31 by Houman Barekat 9781782791232
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Launched in October 2011, the online literary journal Review 31 - www.review31.co.uk - enjoys a growing reputation as one of the most intelligent and thoughtful literary resources on the web... -
European Union and the End of Politics, The by James Heartfield 9781780999500
Booksplease Price: £15.99Europe is in crisis, but the European Union just gets stronger. Greece, Portugal, Spain and Ireland have all been told that they must submit their budgets to EU-appointed bureaucrats. The 'soft coup'... -
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... -
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: £13.00A 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,... -
Conscience of a Progressive, The Steven Klees 9781789044966
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The Conscience of a Progressive begins where Senator Barry Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative (1960) and Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal (2007) leave off. Prof. Klees draws on 45... -
Corona Generation, The: Coming of Age in a Crisis Jennie Bristow 9781789046939
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40It is already clear that the COVID-19 crisis will have huge social and economic implications. The Corona Generation considers its effect on the generation currently coming of age: the demographic... -
China, the USA and Capitalism's Last Crusade: When Survival Is All That Matters William Briggs 9781789047677
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50As the sun rises on China and sets on America, the world holds its breath. China, the USA and Capitalism's Last Crusade looks at the rise of China and the decline of the USA but from a different... -
Failure of Vision, A: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism Doug Greene 9781789047233
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93Doug Greene takes an in-depth and critical look at the life and ideas of Michael Harrington, one of America's most important democratic socialists. A Failure of Vision discusses one of the most... -
Concepts for a Democratic and Ecological Society Yavor Tarinski 9781789049220
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Yavor Tarinski examines the fundamental conflict between democratic aspirations and the imposed norms of capitalism, the potential for directly democratic and ecologically designed cities, the... -
London Dream, The: Migration and the Mythology of the City Chris McMillan 9781789044201
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.45The London Dream tells the story of a city that promises opportunity, excitement and the possibility of prosperity. It is a mythology has launched millions of migrant journeys. No one benefits more... -
End of Capitalism, The: The Thought of Henryk Grossman Ted Reese 9781789047738
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Henryk Grossman is a name most socialists or students of political and social theory - let alone the mass of working people around the world - have probably never heard of. Yet Grossman, a Polish Jew... -
Kill All Normies - Online culture wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the alt-right Angela Nagle 9781785355431
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle ground is the internet. On one side the "alt right" ranges from the once obscure neo-reactionary and... -
Romeo and Juliet in Palestine - Teaching Under Occupation Tom Sperlinger 9781782796374
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Is 'Romeo and Juliet' really a love story, or is it a play about young people living in dangerous circumstances? How might life under occupation produce a new reading of 'Julius Caesar'? What choices... -
Uncommon Owen Hatherley 9781846948770
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40If we remember them at all, the Sheffield pop group Pulp are remembered for jolly class warfare ditty 'Common People', for the celebrity of their interestingly-named frontman, for the latter waving... -
Dead People Stefany Anne Golberg 9781785353369
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Dead People is a book of eulogies, written for an eclectic assortment of famous and interesting people who died in recent years. The essays were written by Stefany Anne Golberg and 2013 Whiting Award...