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Black and Blur by Fred Moten
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category... -
The Universal Machine by Fred Moten
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.54"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category... -
B Jenkins by Fred Moten 9780822346968
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $19.84The 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... -
Stolen Life by Fred Moten 9780822370437
Booksplease Price: $124.91"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category... -
Stolen Life by Fred Moten 9780822370581
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.54"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category... -
Perennial Fashion Presence Falling by Fred Moten
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.67"some ekphrastic evening, this'll be both criticism and poetry and failing that fall somewhere that seems like in between." So writes poet, critic, theorist, and MacArthur fellow Fred Moten in his... -
In The Break: The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition by Fred Moten 9780816641000
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.23Investigates the connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politics In his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively... -
William Shakespeare x Chris Ofili: Othello William Shakespeare 9781644230220
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.27Othello is one of Shakespeare's most contemporary and moving plays, with its emphasis on race, revenge, murder, and lost love. Chris Ofili's new edition highlight's the tragedy of Othello's plight in... -
The Lights by Ben Lerner 9781915051080
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91From the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times. The Lights is a constellation of verse and... -
Futures of the Flesh: An Experiment in Film Writing by Domietta Torlasco 9798899480713
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $45.05Exploring alternative possibilities of viewpoint through cinematic experimentation In this boldly multidimensional work, Domietta Torlasco alternates between theoretical writings, film essays, and... -
Boiled Owls by Azad Ashim Sharma 9781738412594
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.55In Boiled Owls, Azad Ashim Sharma delves into the kaleidoscopic terrain of cocaine addiction to explore the strain it puts on his speaker's interior, as well as family and those in close proximity... -
Fleshed Out For All The Corners Of The Slip James Goodwin 9781838069896
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.41"This major new work is thought, spirit and sense (in every sense) 'fleshed out' in 'all the corners' by being unmade - as poetry, as music, as (black and white) images, and as attention to the... -
A True Account by David Grundy 9781739393953
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.96"Gorgeous and real poetry. This book is a bright spot in a bleak time." - Peter Gizzi A True Account collects works written between 2013 and 2020, published by a variety of small presses in the UK... -
Remember to Dream!: 100 Artists, 100 Notes by Hans Ulrich Obrist 9781912122073
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.40Hans Ulrich Obrist, the Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, brings his curating expertise to the Instagram feeds of more than 386,000 followers (and counting!), in an endeavour... -
What Matters Most: Photographs of Black Life: The Fade Resistance Collection by Zun Lee
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $29.49This powerful collection highlights the importance of snapshots in Black American life: as tools to challenge stereotypes, and as a way to document family and culture Thoughtfully illustrated,... -
Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity by Lindon Barrett 9780252079511
Booksplease Price: $30.95The unfinished manuscript of literary and cultural theorist Lindon Barrett, this study offers a genealogy of how the development of racial blackness within the mercantile capitalist system of... -
Beefy's Tune (Dean Blunt Edit) by Dhanveer Singh Brar 9781838069810
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.41Dean Blunt is the most important British artist of the current century because he fundamentally does not care about Britain. His importance makes it shocking that such little critical attention has... -
Billie’s Bent Elbow: Exorbitance, Intimacy, and a Nonsensuous Standard Fumi Okiji 9781503641235
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $20.87Deeply informed by jazz, Billie's Bent Elbow explores the nonsensical and nonsensuous in black radical thought and expression. Extending the encounter between black study, Frankfurt School critical... -
Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics by Margo Natalie Crawford
Booksplease Price: $27.94A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power movement as we imagine... -
Of Black Study by Joshua Myers
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.88'This magnificent book is the best recent treatment we have of the great Black Radical Tradition' - Cornel West Of Black Study explores how the ideas of Black intellectuals generated different... -
Mourning Modernity: Literary Modernism and the Injuries of American Capitalism by Seth Moglen
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.27In Mourning Modernity, Seth Moglen argues that American literary modernism is, at its heart, an effort to mourn for the injuries inflicted by modern capitalism. He demonstrates that the most... -
There is No Unhappy Revolution: The Communism of Destitution by Marcello Tari 9781942173168
Booksplease Price: $20.58"A powerful case for the persistent questioning and existential interruption that accompanies that pursuit of [happiness and revolution], and fuels it, and constitutes and ruptures its vagrant, open... -
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Saidiya Hartman
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.20Saidiya Hartman has been praised as "one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers" (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and "a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for... -
Cruising Utopia, 10th Anniversary Edition: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by Jose Esteban Munoz
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $24.50A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work-an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars Cruising Utopia arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be reimagined as... -
Futures of Black Radicalism Gaye Theresa Johnson 9781784787585
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.37Black rebellion has returned, with dramatic protests in scores of cities and campuses, bringing with it a renewed engagement with the history of Black radical movements and thought. Here, key... -
Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution David Austin 9780745338132
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $25.59What is the relationship between poetry and social change? Standing at the forefront of political poetry since the 1970s, Linton Kwesi Johnson has been fighting neo-fascism, police violence and... -
Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine Diana Allan 9780745342917
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $22.27***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba -... -
Democracy in the Political Present: A Queer-Feminist Theory by Isabell Lorey
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.72'Presentist democracy is without a people and without nation. Rather than regimes of borders and migration, its borders are sexism and racism, homo- and transphobia, colonialism and extractivism.'In... -
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by Jose Esteban Munoz 9780814757284
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted... -
Pink Waves by Sawako Nakayasu
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $19.03A poem in conversation with literature and written during a durational performance. Written in loose sonata form, Pink Waves is a poem of radiant elegy and quiet protest. Moving through the... -
Maroon Choreography by Fahima Ife
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23In Maroon Choreography fahima ife speculates on the long (im)material, ecological, and aesthetic afterlives of black fugitivity. In three long-form poems and a lyrical essay, they examine black... -
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Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity by Alexander G. Weheliye 9780822335771 [USED COPY]
RRP: $110.94Booksplease Price: $33.72Phonographies explores the numerous links and relays between twentieth-century black cultural production and sound technologies from the phonograph to the Walkman. Highlighting how black authors,... -
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability by Jasbir K. Puar
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of... -
Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.66Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, 2019Finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award, 2019 A New Yorker Book of the Year, 2018 A Huffington Post Book of the Year, 2018 A Buzzfeed Book of the Year,... -
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2020 At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living... -
The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance by Shaul Magid 9798986780313
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.16A timely, progressive collection of essays on the Jewish relationship to Zionism and exile.What is exile? What is diaspora? What is Zionism? Jewish identity today has been shaped by prior... -
Mythocracy: How Stories Shape Our Worlds Yves Citton 9781839766985
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.64Our stories shape our worlds. The power of narratives in the attention economy can be realigned for politically progressive agendas. This book analyses the narrative mechanisms that script the way we... -
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.73The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry Mitchell with lush illustrations by Ned Asta, published by Calamus Press in 1977. Part-fable,... -
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound by Daphne A Brooks 9780674292208
RRP: $27.03Booksplease Price: $21.12Winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, Rock & Roll Hall of FameWinner of the American Book Award, Before Columbus FoundationWinner of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles AwardWinner of the MAAH... -
Aster of Ceremonies: Poems by JJJJJerome Ellis 9781639550128
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $15.20A polyphonic new entry in Multiverse-a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent-JJJJJerome Ellis's Aster of Ceremonies beautifully extends the vision of his debut book and album, The...