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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... -
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 category... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Futures of the Flesh: An Experiment in Film Writing by Domietta Torlasco 9798899480713
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £34.92Exploring 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: £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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Acting Out In Groups by Laurence A. Rickels 9780816633210
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24Examines outrageous public behavior and what it can tell us about cultural and political change.The International Psychoanalytic Congress gathered in 1967 to define the clinical concept of "acting... -
Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity by Lindon Barrett 9780252079511
Booksplease Price: £23.99The 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Dean 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: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.18Deeply 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: £21.66A 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: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.96'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... -
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Saidiya Hartman
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.02Saidiya 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... -
Mourning Modernity: Literary Modernism and the Injuries of American Capitalism by Seth Moglen
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14In 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: £15.95"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... -
Futures of Black Radicalism Gaye Theresa Johnson 9781784787585
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.24Black 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: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.84What 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... -
Cruising Utopia, 10th Anniversary Edition: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by Jose Esteban Munoz
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £18.99A 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... -
Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine Diana Allan 9780745342917
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.26***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 -... -
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by Jose Esteban Munoz 9780814757284
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47The 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... -
Democracy in the Political Present: A Queer-Feminist Theory by Isabell Lorey
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.96'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... -
Pink Waves by Sawako Nakayasu
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.75A 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91In 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: £86.00Booksplease Price: £26.14Phonographies 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: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Finalist 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26WINNER 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... -
Mythocracy: How Stories Shape Our Worlds Yves Citton 9781839766985
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.45Our 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... -
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound by Daphne A Brooks 9780674292208
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £16.37Winner 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: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.78A 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...