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Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation by David Novak
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02Noise, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback, distortion, and electronic effects, first emerged as a genre in the 1980s, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan,... -
The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South by Boaventura de Sousa Santos
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.19In The End of the Cognitive Empire Boaventura de Sousa Santos further develops his concept of the "epistemologies of the South," in which he outlines a theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical... -
Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories by Elizabeth Freeman
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.99Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing of history can be both embodied and erotic. Challenging queer theory's recent emphasis on... -
The Fantasy of Feminist History by Joan Wallach Scott
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89In The Fantasy of Feminist History, Joan Wallach Scott argues that feminist perspectives on history are enriched by psychoanalytic concepts, particularly fantasy. Tracing the evolution of her... -
Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning consciousness of the Palestinian liberation struggle. Invited to Israel... -
Theory Aside by Jason Potts
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Where can theory go now? Where other voices concern themselves with theory's life or death, the contributors to Theory Aside take up another possibility: that our theoretical prospects are better... -
Climate Change and the Future of Cities by Eric Klinenberg
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41We live in the age of extremes, a period punctuated by significant disasters that have changed the way we understand risk, vulnerability, and the future of communities. Violent ecological events such... -
Journal of a Homecoming / Cahier d'un retour au pays natal by Aime Cesaire
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.68Originally published in 1939, Aime Cesaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding text of the Negritude movement. This bilingual edition features a... -
Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity by Elliott Colla
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.85Conflicted Antiquities is a rich cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Consulting... -
The Labor of Job: The Biblical Text as a Parable of Human Labor by Antonio Negri
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47In The Labor of Job, the renowned Marxist political philosopher Antonio Negri develops an unorthodox interpretation of the Old Testament book of Job, a canonical text of Judeo-Christian thought. In... -
Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter by Natasha Myers
Booksplease Price: £38.96What are living bodies made of? Protein modelers tell us that our cells are composed of millions of proteins, intricately folded molecular structures on the scale of nanoparticles. Proteins twist and... -
Waves of Knowing: A Seascape Epistemology by Karin Amimoto Ingersoll
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In Waves of Knowing Karin Amimoto Ingersoll marks a critical turn away from land-based geographies to center the ocean as place. Developing the concept of seascape epistemology, she articulates an... -
Female Masculinity by Jack Halberstam
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £19.99In this quintessential work of queer theory, Jack Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well... -
The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies by Tiffany Lethabo King
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78In The Black Shoals Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal-an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea-as metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize the encounter between... -
Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War by Jennifer Ponce de Leon
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78In Another Aesthetics Is Possible Jennifer Ponce de Leon examines the roles that art can play in the collective labor of creating and defending another social reality. Focusing on artists and art... -
Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24The question of affect is central to critical theory, psychology, politics, and the entire range of the humanities; but no discipline, including psychoanalysis, has offered a theory of affect that... -
The New Cultural History of Peronism: Power and Identity in Mid-Twentieth-Century Argentina by Matthew B. Karush
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21In nearly every account of modern Argentine history, the first Peronist regime (1946-55) emerges as the critical juncture. Appealing to growing masses of industrial workers, Juan Peron built a... -
Trans*historicities by Leah DeVun
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.11This issue offers a theoretical and methodological imagining of what constitutes trans* before the advent of the terms that scholars generally look to for the formation of modern conceptions of... -
(En)gendering: Chinese Women's Art in the Making by Shuqin Cui
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65While contemporary Chinese art has arrived as a critical subject in art history and found market success, current art criticism has yet to fully engage with art made by Chinese women, especially from... -
AFRICOBRA: Experimental Art toward a School of Thought by Wadsworth A. Jarrell
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.19Formed on the South Side of Chicago in 1968 at the height of the civil rights, Black power, and Black arts movements, the AFRICOBRA collective created a new artistic visual language rooted in the... -
Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba by Pierre Sean Brotherton
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Revolutionary Medicine is a richly textured examination of the ways that Cuba's public health care system has changed during the past two decades and of the meaning of those changes for ordinary... -
Charles Bernstein: The Poetry of Idiomatic Insistences by Paul A. Bove
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.11As an acclaimed poet, editor, critic, translator, and educator, Charles Bernstein, in his decades-long commitment to poetry and poetics, criticism, and literary scholarship, reflects a profound... -
Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton by Graham Lock
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In Blutopia Graham Lock studies the music and thought of three pioneering twentieth-century musicians: Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton. Providing an alternative to previous analyses of... -
Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Post-Socialism by Alaina Lemon
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Since tsarist times, Roma in Russia have been portrayed as both rebellious outlaws and free-spirited songbirds-in each case, as if isolated from society. In Soviet times, Russians continued to harbor... -
Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture by Diane Negra
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the "girling" of... -
The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism by Francoise Verges
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68In the 1960s thousands of poor women of color on the (post)colonial French island of Reunion had their pregnancies forcefully terminated by white doctors; the doctors operated under the pretext of... -
Where No Wall Remains: Borders in Performance by Tom Sellar
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.11Built around the Live Arts Bard 2019 Biennial of the same name, "Where No Wall Remains" is a record of performances and interactive art projects by international artists on the subject of borders... -
Anti-Crisis by Janet Roitman
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Crisis is everywhere: in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and the Congo; in housing markets, money markets, financial systems, state budgets, and sovereign currencies. In Anti-Crisis, Janet Roitman steps... -
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive by Lee Edelman
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our... -
In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India by Alpa Shah
Booksplease Price: £34.33In the Shadows of the State suggests that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the very people they intend to help. It is a powerful... -
The t4t Issue by Cameron Awkward-Rich
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.11Originating in Craigslist personals to indicate a trans person seeking another trans person, the term "t4t" has come to describe not only circuits of desire and attraction but also practices of trans... -
Salsa Crossings: Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles by Cindy Garcia
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In Los Angeles, night after night, the city's salsa clubs become social arenas where hierarchies of gender, race, and class, and of nationality, citizenship, and belonging are enacted on and off the... -
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.76First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled... -
An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures by Ann Cvetkovich 9780822330882
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.21In this bold new work of cultural criticism, Ann Cvetkovich develops a queer approach to trauma. She argues for the importance of recognizing-and archiving-accounts of trauma that belong as much to... -
Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman by Cesare Lombroso 9780822332466
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of the field of criminology. His theory of the "born" criminal dominated discussions of criminology in Europe and the Americas from the 1880s into the... -
B Jenkins by Fred Moten 9780822346968
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.38The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poet's mother, who passed away in 2000. It is both an elegy and an inquiry into many of... -
Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art by Jennifer Doyle 9780822353133
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In Hold It Against Me, Jennifer Doyle explores the relationship between difficulty and emotion in contemporary art, treating emotion as an artist's medium. She encourages readers to examine the ways... -
A World of Many Worlds by Marisol de la Cadena 9781478002956
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24A World of Many Worlds is a search into the possibilities that may emerge from conversations between indigenous collectives and the study of science's philosophical production. The contributors... -
Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker by McKenzie Wark 9781478014683
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91It's time to recognize Kathy Acker as one of the great postwar American writers. Over the decades readers have found a punk Acker, a feminist Acker, a queer Acker, a kink Acker, and an avant-garde... -
Black Madness :: Mad Blackness by Theri Alyce Pickens 9781478004042
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47In Black Madness :: Mad Blackness Theri Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive. Pickens shows...