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Occupy Pynchon: Politics after Gravity's Rainbow by Sean Carswell 9780820356846
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £28.45Occupy Pynchon examines power and resistance in the writer's post-Gravity's Rainbow novels. As Sean Carswell shows, Pynchon's representations of global power after the neoliberal revolution of the... -
Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory by Christian Fuchs 9781912656714
Booksplease Price: £30.29'An authoritative analysis of the role of communication in contemporary capitalism and an important contribution to debates about the forms of domination and potentials for liberation in today's... -
Empire and Beyond Antonio Negri (University of Padua) 9780745640488
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.95Today, Empire no longer has an outside: it no longer tolerates realities external to itself. Hence every war cannot but be a civil war, an internal battle, a domestic strife. But if the enemy is... -
Ad Usum: To be Used by Jose Luis Falconi 9780674025158
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £35.72For more than a decade the Mexico City-based artist, architect, and cultural agent Pedro Reyes has been turning existing social problems into opportunities for effecting tangible change through... -
Security and Terror: American Culture and the Long History of Colonial Modernity by Eli Jelly-Schapiro 9780520295377
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.29When in 1492 Christopher Columbus set out for Asia but instead happened upon the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola, his error inaugurated a specifically colonial modernity. This is, Security and Terror... -
Giorgio Agamben: Sovereignty and Life by Matthew Calarco
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Giorgio Agamben has come to be recognized in recent years as one of the most provocative and imaginative thinkers in contemporary philosophy and political theory. The essays gathered together in this... -
Debating Empire by Gopal Balakrishnan 9781859844526
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.21Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's book Empire has been hailed as a latter day Communist Manifesto. Its ability to develop a theoretical framework relevant to the current period of global... -
A Brief History of the Masses: Three Revolutions by Stefan Jonsson
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.25Stefan Jonsson uses three monumental works of art to build a provocative history of popular revolt: Jacques-Louis David's The Tennis Court Oath (1791), James Ensor's Christ's Entry into Brussels in... -
Rossella Biscotti: The Trial by Rossella Biscotti 9788867496945
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.45"The Trial is an extensive publication chronicling the decade-plus-long evolution of one of Rossella Biscotti’s seminal works. Developed between 2006 and 2021, it centres on the “April 7th” trial... -
The Theoretical Evolution of International Political Economy, Third Edition: A Reader by Darel E. Paul 9780199862917
Booksplease Price: £58.28This collection of seminal readings in international political economy charts the historical and theoretical evolution of the field from the seventeenth century to the present day. Bringing together... -
Pipeline: Letters from Prison by Antonio Negri 9780745655642
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Four men in a cell in Rebibbia prison, Rome, awaiting trial on serious charges of subversion. One of them, the political thinker Antonio Negri, spends his days writing. Among his writings are twenty... -
Pipeline: Letters from Prison Antonio Negri (University of Padua) 9780745655659
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34Four men in a cell in Rebibbia prison, Rome, awaiting trial on serious charges of subversion. One of them, the political thinker Antonio Negri, spends his days writing. Among his writings are twenty... -
Co-opting the PLO: A Critical Reconstruction of the Oslo Accords, 1993-1995 by Peter Ezra Weinberger 9780739122051
Booksplease Price: £46.74Co-opting the PLO analyzes the Oslo Accords, the interim self-government agreements signed between the government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), during the period... -
The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History by Walter Benn Michaels 9780691126180
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21The Shape of the Signifier is a critique of recent theory--primarily literary but also cultural and political. Bringing together previously unconnected strands of Michaels's thought--from "Against... -
Brutalism by Achille Mbembe 9781478025580
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46In Brutalism, eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a... -
The Polyphony of Utopia: Critical Negativities Across Cultures from Bellamy and Bogdanov to Yefremov, Piercy and Butler by Raffaella Baccolini 9781803740553
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.45«Through detailed, elegant interpretations of utopian novels produced in the United States and the Soviet Union, Pavla Veselá casts aside standard commonplaces about East / West cultural divergences... -
Creative Capitalism, Multitudinous Creativity: Radicalities and Alterities by Giuseppe Cocco 9781498503983
Booksplease Price: £103.11The book aims to counter the normative functioning of creativity in contemporary capitalism with a plethora of alternatives to radical creative practices. In the first part, titled "Creative... -
Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games by Nick Dyer-Witheford
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37In the first decade of the twenty-first century, video games are an integral part of global media culture, rivaling Hollywood in revenue and influence. No longer confined to a subculture of... -
Reading Capital: The Complete Edition by Louis Althusser
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.20Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations. Louis Althusser, the French Marxist philosopher,... -
Protest and Organization in the Alternative Globalization Era: NGOs, Social Movements, and Political Parties by Heather D. Gautney
Booksplease Price: £48.06This study looks at the ongoing efforts of the Alternative Global Movement and World Social Forum to reconcile contests over political organization among three of the most prominent groups on the... -
Hegel or Spinoza by Pierre Macherey 9780816677405
Booksplease Price: £70.18Hegel or Spinoza is the first English-language translation of the modern classic Hegel ou Spinoza. Published in French in 1979, it has been widely influential, particularly in the work of the... -
Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment by Nick Nesbitt 9780813928036
Booksplease Price: £29.07Unlike the American and French Revolutions, the Haitian Revolution was the first in a modern state to implement human rights universally and unconditionally. Going well beyond the selective... -
Ambiguities of Activism: Alter-Globalism and the Imperatives of Speed by Ingrid M. Hoofd
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This volume provides a critical and in-depth investigation of the relationship between alter-globalist thinking and practices and their popular discourses. It examines the ways in which several... -
Hegel or Spinoza by Pierre Macherey
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Hegel or Spinoza is the first English-language translation of the modern classic Hegel ou Spinoza. Published in French in 1979, it has been widely influential, particularly in the work of the... -
The Communist Manifesto: A Norton Critical Edition by Karl Marx 9780393935608
Booksplease Price: £23.06Simultaneously extolled in its day as truth incarnate and the inspiration for a life-and-death struggle for humankind's liberation and condemned as the vilest of propaganda on behalf of despotism,... -
On the Way to Theory Lawrence Grossberg 9781478026631
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.82In On the Way to Theory, Lawrence Grossberg introduces the major ways of thinking that provide the backstory for contemporary Western theory. Asking readers to think about thinking, Grossberg traces... -
Resurgent Commons: Feminist Political Ecologies in the European South Miriam Tola 9781531512521
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Once dismissed as "tragedy," the commons have been making a comeback. Amid intensifying social and environmental injustices in neoliberal regimes, scholars and activists have turned to the commons -... -
State Work: Public Administration and Mass Intellectuality by Stefano Harney 9780822328957
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14An innovative contribution to political theory, State Work examines the labor of government workers in North America. Arguing that this work needs to be theorized precisely because it is vital to the... -
Resurgent Commons: Feminist Political Ecologies in the European South Miriam Tola 9781531512538
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Once dismissed as "tragedy," the commons have been making a comeback. Amid intensifying social and environmental injustices in neoliberal regimes, scholars and activists have turned to the commons -... -
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State Work: Public Administration and Mass Intellectuality by Stefano Harney 9780822328803 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £9.98An innovative contribution to political theory, State Work examines the labor of government workers in North America. Arguing that this work needs to be theorized precisely because it is vital to the... -
A Wide Net of Solidarity: Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe Anne Garland Mahler 9781478032083
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02In A Wide Net of Solidarity, Anne Garland Mahler traces the impact of the Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas (LADLA,Liga Antimperialista de las AmEricas) on racial justice and anti-extractive... -
On the Way to Theory Lawrence Grossberg 9781478030850
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70In On the Way to Theory, Lawrence Grossberg introduces the major ways of thinking that provide the backstory for contemporary Western theory. Asking readers to think about thinking, Grossberg traces... -
A Wide Net of Solidarity: Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe Anne Garland Mahler 9781478028819
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.69In A Wide Net of Solidarity, Anne Garland Mahler traces the impact of the Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas (LADLA,Liga Antimperialista de las AmEricas) on racial justice and anti-extractive... -
The Political Theory of Salvage by Jason Kosnoski 9781438491202
RRP: £26.97Booksplease Price: £25.03Explores the political and theoretical significance of the use of salvaging discarded materials by social movements during their protest activities.The use of what others have thrown away by those... -
The Power at the End of the Economy by Brian Massumi
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Rational self-interest is often seen as being at the heart of liberal economic theory. In The Power at the End of the Economy Brian Massumi provides an alternative explanation, arguing that... -
Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx by Gianni Vattimo 9780231158022
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £72.43Having lost much of its political clout and theoretical power, communism no longer represents an appealing alternative to capitalism. In its original Marxist formulation, communism promised an ideal... -
Deleuzism: A Metacommentary by Ian Buchanan
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24The conviction that Gilles Deleuze is doing something radical in his work has been accompanied by a corresponding anxiety as to how to read it. In this rigorous and lucid work, Ian Buchanan takes up... -
Network Culture: Politics For the Information Age Tiziana Terranova 9780745317489
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.30In an age of email lists and discussion groups, e-zines and weblogs, bringing together users, consumers, workers and activists from around the globe, what kinds of political subjectivity are... -
Books for Burning: Between Civil War and Democracy in 1970's Italy by Antonio Negri 9781844670345
Booksplease Price: £28.93Long before Antonio Negri became famous around the world for his groundbreaking volume Empire, he was infamous across Europe for the incendiary writings contained in this book. Books for Burning... -
The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work by Jason Read 9781839767623
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32Even as the rewards of work decline and its demands on us increase, many people double-down on their commitment to wage slavery-working harder, doing overtime, and learning to hustle. To paraphrase...