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The Universal Machine by Fred Moten
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02"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... -
Black and Blur by Fred Moten
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36"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: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.17The 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 9780822370581
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02"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... -
Black and Blur by Fred Moten 9780822370062
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.89"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 9780822370437
Booksplease Price: £96.83"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 9780822346845
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89The 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... -
The Universal Machine by Fred Moten 9780822370468
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.59"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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50"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... -
Perennial Fashion Presence Falling by Fred Moten 9781950268801
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.38"some ekphrastic evening, this'll be both criticism and poetry and failing that fall somewhere that seem 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: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Investigates 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: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.71Othello 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... -
Noah Davis: In Detail Helen Molesworth 9781644230763
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £43.35Designed as a companion to the hugely successful monograph Noah Davis, this volume offers further insight into the impact and legacy of the revolutionary Los Angeles artist and activist. ---------- ... -
Black Hopes / Black Woes: Early African American Optimism and 21st Century Afro-Pessimism Raphaël Lambert 9781032473512
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Black Hopes/Black Woes begins by delving into the contrasting mindsets of postbellum African Americans and their twenty-first-century counterparts, aiming to elucidate the shift from early black... -
The Lights by Ben Lerner 9781915051080
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23From 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... -
Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies by Adalaide Kirby Morris 9780807846704
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.21By investigating the relationship between acoustical technologies and twentieth-century experimental poetics, this collection, with an accompanying compact disc, aims to 'turn up the volume' on... -
Body Problems: What Intersex Priest Sally Gross Teaches Us about Embodiment, Justice, and Belonging by M Wolff 9781478028789
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.69In Body Problems, M. Wolff offers groundbreaking insight into Sally Gross, a South African intersex priest and activist whose body was continuously policed and politicized. Gross's role in founding... -
Sounds of Black Switzerland: Blackness, Music, and Unthought Voices Jessie Cox 9781478031437
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Writing as a scholar, composer, and musician, Jessie Cox foregrounds the experience of Black Swiss through sound and music in his first book, Sounds of Black Switzerland. Cox, himself Black Swiss,... -
Sounds of Black Switzerland: Blackness, Music, and Unthought Voices Jessie Cox 9781478028215
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.02Writing as a scholar, composer, and musician, Jessie Cox foregrounds the experience of Black Swiss through sound and music in his first book, Sounds of Black Switzerland. Cox, himself Black Swiss,... -
Millennial Style: The Politics of Experiment in Contemporary African Diasporic Culture by Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman 9781478025955
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £65.19In Millennial Style, Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman looks at recent experiments in black expressive culture that begin in the place of ruin. By ruin, Abdur-Rahman means the political terror and social... -
Political Theology Reimagined: Political Theology Reimagined Alex Dubilet 9781478028932
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.69Political theology has emerged as an enormously energetic, creative way of exploring the complex relationship between religion, politics, and culture around the world. Political Theology Reimagined... -
Political Theology Reimagined: Political Theology Reimagined Alex Dubilet 9781478032205
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Political theology has emerged as an enormously energetic, creative way of exploring the complex relationship between religion, politics, and culture around the world. Political Theology Reimagined... -
Someone Shot My Book by Julie Carr
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14Approaching the practices of reading and writing from a feminist perspective, Someone Shot My Book asks important ethical questions about the role of poetry-and of art in general-in a violent culture... -
How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University Perry Zurn 9781478031307
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02Trans people have always lived in the cracks of institutions-and the university is no exception. In How We Make Each Other, Perry Zurn tells the stories of how trans people make and live their lives... -
How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University Perry Zurn 9781478028062
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.59Trans people have always lived in the cracks of institutions-and the university is no exception. In How We Make Each Other, Perry Zurn tells the stories of how trans people make and live their lives... -
Adelita Husni Bey: Chiron Adelita Husni Bey 9780915557196
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50This volume is published for a new site-specific installation that incorporates several films by Italian artist Adelita Husni Bey (born 1985), including the premiere of a major new work. Chiron... -
Boiled Owls by Azad Ashim Sharma 9781738412594
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95In 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62"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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60"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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.61Hans 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... -
Black Hospitality: A Theoretical Framework for Black Ethical Life by Mukasa Mubirumusoke 9783030952570
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £75.80This book addresses the paucity of robust reflections on ethics as a distinct field of experience in recent Black Studies scholarship. Following the intervention of the Afro-Pessimist school of... -
Black Hospitality: A Theoretical Framework for Black Ethical Life by Mukasa Mubirumusoke 9783030952549
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £75.80This book addresses the paucity of robust reflections on ethics as a distinct field of experience in recent Black Studies scholarship. Following the intervention of the Afro-Pessimist school of... -
Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory Evan Gottlieb 9781138853270
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory is a wide-ranging but accessible introduction to the key thinkers and theories integral to the study of literature. Organized thematically,... -
Mu, 49 Marks of Abolition by Sora Y. Han 9781478027836
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In March 2020, Sora Y. Han learned her father was dying of cancer just as the COVID-19 pandemic arrived on California shores. These two events lead Han to introspection: “Who have I been writing to?”... -
Andrea Geyer: Dance in a Future with All Present by Andrea Geyer
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £18.63The most substantive monograph yet published on the work of German-born, New York based multimedia artist Andrea Geyer (born 1971), Dance in a Future with All Present focuses on her recent... -
Camille Norment: Plexus Camille Norment 9780944521984
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £22.93"Norment's ringing and vibrating sound system lets us experience a fragile interdependence of bodies and environments." -New York Times Throughout her career, Oslo-based multimedia artist Camille... -
Mu, 49 Marks of Abolition by Sora Y. Han 9781478020974
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.32In March 2020, Sora Y. Han learned her father was dying of cancer just as the COVID-19 pandemic arrived on California shores. These two events lead Han to introspection: “Who have I been writing to?”... -
Bodies in the Middle: Black Women, Sexual Violence, and Complex Imaginings of Justice Maya Hislop 9781643364896
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36A probing analysis of Black women's attempts to pursue justice for sexual-violence victims within often hostile social and legal systems In Bodies in the Middle: Black Women, Sexual Violence, and... -
Bodies in the Middle: Black Women, Sexual Violence, and Complex Imaginings of Justice Maya Hislop 9781643364889
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £73.60A probing analysis of Black women's attempts to pursue justice for sexual-violence victims within often hostile social and legal systems In Bodies in the Middle: Black Women, Sexual Violence, and... -
The Dialectics of Music: Adorno, Benjamin, and Deleuze by Joseph Weiss 9781350174962
Booksplease Price: £102.21Combining the philosophy and musicology of T.W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Gilles Deleuze, Joseph Weiss makes an original contribution to the field of aesthetics and critical theory. Highlighting...