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Blowing the Lid - Gay Liberation, Sexual Revolution and Radical Queens Stuart Feather 9781785351433
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €22.05The 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: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.47A 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: €23.79Booksplease Price: €16.96David 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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50The 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: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07In 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81The 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: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.80If 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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.99Can 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: €23.79Booksplease Price: €16.96Degrowth 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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50London 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02The 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: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.70Every 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81From 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: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.28Against 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.51A 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,... -
Cauldron of Anxiety, A: Capitalism in the twenty-first century William Briggs 9781789046090
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.58The veritable tsunami of anxieties that are affecting individual lives, the increasingly dysfunctional nature of society and the potential catastrophes of global conflict and of climate change, have... -
Event Horizon: Sexuality, Politics, Online Culture, and the Limits of Capitalism Bonni Rambatan 9781789048766
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.28In an age where Silicon Valley dictates what it means to innovate a painless future, knowledge and enjoyment are fertile breeding grounds of political contestation. But it's not exactly democracy. We... -
How to Dismantle the English State Education System in 10 Easy Steps: The Academy Experiment Terry Edwards 9781789044300
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Terry Edwards and Carl Parsons tell the story of the takeover of England's schools by the super-efficient, modernising, academising machine, which, in collaboration with a dynamic, forward-looking... -
Ethical Portraits: In Search of Representational Justice Hatty Nestor 9781789040029
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Prisons systematically dehumanise the imprisoned. Visualised through mugshots and surveillance recordings, the incarcerated lose control of their own image and identity. The criminal justice system... -
Neglected or Misunderstood: The Radical Feminism of Shulamith Firestone by Victoria Margree
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex proved immediately controversial upon its publication in 1970. The book's thesis is that the origins of women's oppression lie in biology: in the fact that... -
Left for Itself, A: Left-wing Hobbyists and Performative Radicalism David Swift 9781789040739
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50In the first full length analysis of the rise of left-wing hobbyists, performative radicals and the 'Identity Left', A Left for Itself interrogates the connection between socio-economic realities and... -
Seen and Not Seen: Confessions of a Movie Autist by Jasun Horsley 9781782796756
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.98Popular culture mirrors the human soul and it can't lie about the state it is in-which is what makes it an essential guide on the quest for self-knowledge. Seen and Not Seen: Confessions of a Movie... -
Architecture of Control, The – A Contribution to the Critique of the Science of Apparatuses by Grant Vetter 9781780992938
Booksplease Price: €18.99Through six meditations on the ideology of architecture, Grant Vetter is able to give us an entirely new set of coordinates for understanding social control in the twenty-first century. Moving... -
Why Are We The Good Guys?: Reclaiming Your Mind from the Delusions of Propaganda by David Cromwell 9781780993652
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.98One of the unspoken assumptions of the Western world is that we are great defenders of human rights, a free press and the benefits of market economics. Mistakes might be made along the way, perhaps... -
Against Capitalist Education - What is Education for? Nadim Bakhshov 9781785350573
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.51Out there in the so-called real world the education system is being crushed by the demands of capitalism and, in turn, is crushing those who pass through it, reducing them, diminishing them. The... -
Capitalism vs. Freedom: The Toll Road to Serfdom by Rob Larson 9781785357336
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50For years, we've been taught that capitalism is good for freedom. Dominant right-wing talk radio hosts to this day recommend "libertarian" classics like Hayek's Road to Serfdom and Friedman's... -
Drone and Apocalypse - An exhibit catalog for the end of the world Joanna Demers 9781782799948
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Drone and Apocalypse is an exhibit catalog for a retrospective of twenty-first-century art. Its narrator, Cynthia Wey, is a failed artist convinced that apocalypse is imminent. She writes critical... -
Georgian Portraits - Essays on the Afterlives of a Revolution Martin Demant Frederiksen 9781785353628
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Georgian Portraits chronicles everyday life in the Republic of Georgia in the decade that followed the Rose Revolution of 2003. Recent anthropological developments argue for the use of "afterlives"... -
Neglected or Misunderstood: Introducing Theodor Adorno Stuart Walton 9781785353826
Booksplease Price: €26.99While Theodor Adorno has continued to be influential since his death in 1969, his very centrality has led to the left simplifying his ideas while the right placed him at the center of a myriad of... -
The Last Tape by Alex Niven 9781782795452
Booksplease Price: €10.63In this haunting debut collection, Alex Niven explores a poetic hinterland that is also a psychological and cultural wilderness. Adopting a style grounded in the radical minimalism of northern... -
Vade Mecum - Essays, Reviews & Interviews Richard Skinner 9781785350245
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Vade Mecum brings together Richard Skinner's best essays, reviews and interviews from 1992-2014. There are close critical engagements with writers (Kazuo Ishiguro, Italo Calvino, Shakespeare's The... -
Open Book Theater Management: Ethical Theater Production by Rafe Beckley 9781782796411
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.40In the world of Fringe (or Off-Off Broadway) theatre, a strong debate has been raging for years - when you're producing a low/no-budget production, how on earth can you make it happen and still treat... -
Methods Devour Themselves: a conversation by Benjanun Sriduangkaew 9781785358265
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.45Methods Devour Themselves is a dialogue between fiction and non-fiction. Inspired by Quentin Meillassoux's Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction that was paired with an Isaac Asimov short story,... -
Imaginary Games by Chris Bateman 9781846949418
Booksplease Price: €22.91Can games be art? When film critic Roger Ebert claimed in 2010 that videogames could never be art it was seen as a snub by many gamers. But from the perspective of philosophy of art this question was... -
Circus Philosophicus by Graham Harman 9781846944000
Booksplease Price: €9.10Platonic myth meets American noir in this haunting series of philosophical images, from gigantic ferris wheels to offshore drilling rigs. It has been said that Plato, Nietzsche, and Giordano Bruno... -
Pornography Feminism: As Powerful as She Wants to be by Richard Moreland 9781782794967
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.99During the sex wars of the 1980s, sex-positive feminism entered the adult film industry with a performer support group known as Club 90. Over the next three decades feminism found a home among an... -
Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique of the Contemporary Left Ben Burgis 9781789045475
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Between the decline of the labor movement, the aftershocks of the falls of so-called "actually existing socialism," and the long exile of even social democrats from the levers of real power, we have... -
- -: A Novel Wade Parrish 9781789048209
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07- - is a blank city. There's a sick glow to the clouds, and it always seems to be raining here even when it isn't. Only sad and wounded people live here anymore. They are homeless in their apartments... -
After The Apocalypse – Finding hope in organizing by Monika Kostera
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50Our times of crumbling structures and decaying social bonds are often depicted as apocalyptic. This book takes the apocalypse as a metaphor to help us in the search for meaning in our everyday... -
Brexit: The Establishment Civil War Josh Hamilton 9781789044904
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €17.95Wrapped up in a story of the British public's' rejection of the establishment is a much darker story about shady money, untoward digital campaign tactics, and a fraught battle exploding from the...