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Film, Nihilism and the Restoration of Belief by Darren Ambrose 9781780992457
Booksplease Price: £14.83Despite 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... -
Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique of the Contemporary Left Ben Burgis 9781789045475
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Between 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: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78- - 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44Our 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: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.08Wrapped 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... -
Awkwardness - An Essay Adam Kotsko 9781846943911
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54Awkwardness has been one of the defining traits of the awkwardly unnamed first decade of our young century, dominating comedy on both the big and small screens. Could this trend point toward... -
Poor but Sexy - Culture Clashes in Europe East and West Agata Pyzik 9781780993942
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.9324 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Europe is as divided as ever. The passengers of the low-budget airlines go east for stag parties, and they go West for work; but the East stays East, and... -
Meat Market - Female flesh under capitalism Laurie Penny 9781846945212
Booksplease Price: £8.74Modern culture is obsessed with controlling women's bodies. Our societies are saturated with images of unreal, idealised female beauty whilst real female bodies and the women who inhabit them are... -
Capitalist Superheroes: Caped Crusaders in the Neoliberal Age by Dan Hassler-Forest 9781780991795
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.64In the same way that Stallone and Schwarzenegger played film heroes who came to embody the values of Ronald Reagans aggressive conservative agenda in the 1980s, the 21st-century film narratives of... -
Boredom and Art - Passions of the Will To Boredom Julian Jason Haladyn 9781782799986
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44Boredom and Art examines the use of boredom as a strategy in modern and contemporary art to resist or frustrate the effects of consumerism and capitalism. This book traces the emergence of what... -
Don`t Lose Track Vol. 1: 40 Selected Articles, Essays and Q&As Jordannah Elizabeth 9781785351938
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Don't Lose Track is a collection from the widely published arts and culture journalist, Jordannah Elizabeth. The book includes reviews, essays and interviews hand selected by Jordannah from a catalog... -
Creepiness Adam Kotsko 9781782798460
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A specter is haunting contemporary television-the specter of creepiness. In our everyday lives, we try to avoid creepiness at every cost, shunning creepy people and recoiling in horror at the idea... -
Primer on Utopian Philosophy, A: An Introduction to the Work of Ernst Bloch by Jonathan Greenaway 9781803413273
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.92The utopian project lies in ruins, but perhaps in our present moment, there are elements from the history of thought that can provide fresh resources for utopianism. In this groundbreaking... -
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
Booksplease Price: £10.86Launched 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... -
Cauldron of Anxiety, A: Capitalism in the twenty-first century William Briggs 9781789046090
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.05The 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: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64In 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Terry 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Prisons 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Shulamith 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50In 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: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75Popular 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... -
Pop Grenade: From Public Enemy to Pussy Riot - Dispatches from Musical Frontlines by Matthew Collin 9781782798316
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.84An adrenalin-charged trip through some of the cultural flashpoints of the past few decades, Pop Grenade celebrates the power of music as a force for change. Based on first-hand, personal reportage... -
Architecture of Control, The – A Contribution to the Critique of the Science of Apparatuses by Grant Vetter 9781780992938
Booksplease Price: £15.96Through 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: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93One 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.83Out 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50For 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... -
Drone and Apocalypse - An exhibit catalog for the end of the world Joanna Demers 9781782799948
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Drone 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Georgian 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... -
Neglected or Misunderstood: Introducing Theodor Adorno Stuart Walton 9781785353826
Booksplease Price: £22.68While 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: £8.93In 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Vade 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: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.42In 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Methods 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,... -
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Post Cinematic Affect by Steven Shaviro 9781846944314 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.05Post-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... -
Imaginary Games by Chris Bateman 9781846949418
Booksplease Price: £20.14Can 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: £7.65Platonic 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44During 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... -
Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures by Mark Fisher
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen. Fisher searches for the traces of these lost futures...