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Dynamo Island - The cultural history and geography of a Utopia David Scott 9781785351129
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Dynamo Island is an account of a contemporary ideal world set in an Ireland-sized island in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. It expresses the possibility of a modern society living in harmonious... -
Politactics - Political Conversations from Everyday Analysis Eda Collective 9781785354366
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Technology, politics and entertainment have merged to the point of confusion. Politactics, the third book from the Everyday Analysis collective, is a set of conversations about how to sift through... -
Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption Robert Appelbaum 9781782793571
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Working the Aisles takes the reader on tumultuous driving trips across the United States and France, on phone sex escapades in San Francisco, on banking battles in Sweden, and many other adventures -... -
Animatic Apparatus, The: Animation, Vitality, and the Futures of the Image by Deborah Levitt 9781780992693
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Unprecedented kinds of experience, and new modes of life, are now produced by simulations, from the CGI of Hollywood blockbusters to animal cloning to increasingly sophisticated military training... -
Writing on the Wall, The - On the Decomposition of Capitalism and Its Critics Anselm Jappe 9781785355813
Booksplease Price: £16.04The 2008 global financial crisis has led to the re-emergence in public discourse of the idea that capitalism could end. For many, it was proof of the notion that capitalist civilisation has an... -
Allegories of the End of Capitalism: Six Films on the Revolutions of Our Times Milo Sweedler 9781785358623
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50In Allegories of the End of Capitalism, Milo Sweedler deconstructs the events of films Melancholia; Cosmopolis; Suffragette; Django Unchained; Elysium and Snowpiercer, the socio-political contexts... -
In Land: Writings around Land Art and its Legacies Ben Tufnell 9781789040500
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50An attempt to melt an iceberg with a blowtorch, an indoor lake of tequila, an ascent of Mt Everest, driftwood burnt with sunlight focused through a magnifying glass and a doorbell that emits the... -
Going Nowhere, Slow: The aesthetics and politics of depression Mikkel Krause Frantzen 9781789042146
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44Using examples from art and literature, Frantzen explores the social, political and economic implications of both real and imagined depression. Is feeling blue a symptom of the death of progress? Was... -
Diet of Austerity, A – Class, Food and Climate Change by Elaine Graham–leigh 9781782797401
Booksplease Price: £17.14Received wisdom is increasingly that we all have to eat less to save the planet, but received wisdom is wrong. A Diet of Austerity argues that, just as the poor are blamed for the economic crisis,... -
Against the Vortex: Zardoz and Degrowth Utopias in the Seventies and Today by Anthony Galluzzo 9781803416625
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Alongside scientific knowledge and collective effort, building a degrowth ecological society will require a different set of stories and myths than the big and fast Promethean fables we're accustomed... -
The People v. Tony Blair: Politics, the Media and the Anti-War Movement by Chris Nineham 9781780998169
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Some people dismiss mass protest. The People v. Tony Blair shows the huge demonstrations against the Iraq War in 2003 nearly brought down Blair and almost forced Britain out of the war. Based on... -
Coming From Nothing: A Thought Experiment Novella by Matthew McKeever 9781785356193
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Coming From Nothing is a tragi-comic love story concerned with notions of identity, such as Judith Butler's idea that sexual identity isn't determined by the body, and John Locke's that personal... -
The End of Oulipo?: An Attempt to Exhaust a Movement by Lauren Elkin 9781780996554
Booksplease Price: £10.86The Oulipo celebrated its fiftieth birthday in 2010, and as it enters its sixth decade, its members, fans and critics are all wondering: where can it go from here? In two long essays Scott Esposito... -
Film, Nihilism and the Restoration of Belief by Darren Ambrose 9781780992457
Booksplease Price: £15.54Despite the cliches which govern much of its current forms, the cinema continues to have a vital political and aesthetic significance. Our commitment to, and our sincerity towards, our ways of being... -
Color, Facture, Art and Design: Artistic Technique and the Precisions of Human Perception by Iona Singh 9781780996295
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.07Color, Facture, Art and Design seeks to understand art and design from the aspect of materials, construction and the senses. It contends that this element is omitted from art and design theory as a... -
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...