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Platform Capitalism Nick Srnicek 9781509504879
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.49What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide... -
Platform Capitalism Nick Srnicek 9781509504862
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.55What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide... -
Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI Nick Srnicek 9781509550494
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.90Since the emergence of ChatGPT, generative AI has been heralded as a technology poised to revolutionize our world. But beyond the hype and hyperbole, who truly wields power over this transformative... -
Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI Nick Srnicek 9781509550487
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £36.05Since the emergence of ChatGPT, generative AI has been heralded as a technology poised to revolutionize our world. But beyond the hype and hyperbole, who truly wields power over this transformative... -
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek 9781784786229
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Overtime: Why We Need A Shorter Working Week by Will Stronge 9781788738682
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61Overtime is about the politics of time, and specifically the amount of time that we spend labouring within capitalist society. It argues that reactivating the longstanding demand for shorter working... -
Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back) by Alex Williams
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32Today power is in the hands of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. How do we understand this transformation in power? And what can we do about it?We cannot change anything until we have a better... -
Gadget Consciousness: Collective Thought, Will and Action in the Age of Social Media by Joss Hands 9780745335346
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.29What impact does our relentless fixation on gadgets have on the struggle for new kinds of solidarity, political articulation and intelligence? In this groundbreaking study, Joss Hands explores the... -
Art and Postcapitalism: Aesthetic Labour, Automation and Value Production Dave Beech 9780745339245
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.04Artistic labour was exemplary for Utopian Socialist theories of 'attractive labour', and Marxist theories of 'nonalienated labour', but the rise of the anti-work movement and current theories of... -
Art and Postcapitalism: Aesthetic Labour, Automation and Value Production by Dave Beech 9780745339252
Booksplease Price: £85.65Artistic labour was exemplary for Utopian Socialist theories of 'attractive labour', and Marxist theories of 'nonalienated labour', but the rise of the anti-work movement and current theories of... -
Technology and World Politics: An Introduction Daniel R. McCarthy 9781138955875
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This edited volume provides a convenient entry point to the cutting-edge field of the international politics of technology, in an interesting and informative manner. Technology and World Politics... -
Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech James Muldoon (University of Exeter) 9780745346960
Booksplease Price: £85.65'Ground-breaking and ambitious' - Nick Srnicek, author of Platform Capitalism Whoever controls the platforms, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete... -
Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech by James Muldoon 9780745346953
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.88'Ground-breaking and ambitious' - Nick Srnicek, author of Platform Capitalism Whoever controls the platforms, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete... -
After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time by Helen Hester
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you're confronted by a pile of new tasks to complete - cooking, cleaning,... -
Cryptocommunism Mark Alizart 9781509538577
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.05Cryptocurrencies are often associated with right-wing political movements, or even with the alt-right. They are the preserve of libertarians and fans of Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek. With their... -
Cryptocommunism Mark Alizart 9781509538584
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.48Cryptocurrencies are often associated with right-wing political movements, or even with the alt-right. They are the preserve of libertarians and fans of Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek. With their... -
Capitalism and the Media: Key Concepts for Understanding Communications and Technology Des Freedman 9781509565313
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03Capitalism is the most powerful, creative and destructive social system the world has ever seen. Vigorously celebrated and fiercely contested, it provides the backdrop for the pipelines and platforms... -
The Shock Doctrine of the Left by Graham Jones 9781509528547
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.05Shocks, from natural disasters to military catastrophes, have long been exploited by the state to impose privatization, cuts and rampant free markets. This book argues that the left can use such... -
The Shock Doctrine of the Left Graham Jones (Loughborough University, UK) 9781509528554
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Shocks, from natural disasters to military catastrophes, have long been exploited by the state to impose privatization, cuts and rampant free markets. This book argues that the left can use such... -
The App Economy: Making Sense of Platform Power in the Age of AI Konrad Kollnig 9781529247701
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.56Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Mobile apps have transformed how we live, work and connect - but at what cost? This book examines the immense power Apple and Google wield... -
Capitalism and the Media: Key Concepts for Understanding Communications and Technology Des Freedman 9781509565306
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Capitalism is the most powerful, creative and destructive social system the world has ever seen. Vigorously celebrated and fiercely contested, it provides the backdrop for the pipelines and platforms... -
Monitored: Business and Surveillance in a Time of Big Data by Peter Bloom
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.26Our contemporary age is confronted by a profound contradiction: on the one hand, our lives as workers, consumers and citizens have become ever more monitored by new technologies. On the other, big... -
Monitored: Business and Surveillance in a Time of Big Data by Peter Bloom 9780745338637
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54Our contemporary age is confronted by a profound contradiction: on the one hand, our lives as workers, consumers and citizens have become ever more monitored by new technologies. On the other, big... -
Markets and Power in Digital Capitalism by Philipp Staab 9781526172167
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.48Markets and power in digital capitalism delves into the complex world of modern capitalism, where technology giants reign supreme. From Google and Apple to Amazon and Tencent, these internet... -
Post-work: What It Is, Why It Matters And How We Get There Helen Hester 9781350089976
Booksplease Price: £46.29What does the future hold for work in our new age of crisis? How do we make sure that the uncertain future into which we are heading is heavenly and not hellish? How can we take the pleasures of work... -
Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism Nick Dyer-Witheford 9780745338606
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.59Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen major advances in recent years. While machines were always central to the Marxist analysis of capitalism, AI is a new kind of machine that Marx could not have... -
Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism by Nick Dyer-Witheford 9780745338613
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen major advances in recent years. While machines were always central to the Marxist analysis of capitalism, AI is a new kind of machine that Marx could not have... -
Post-work: What It Is, Why It Matters And How We Get There Helen Hester 9781350089983
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.35What does the future hold for work in our new age of crisis? How do we make sure that the uncertain future into which we are heading is heavenly and not hellish? How can we take the pleasures of work... -
Automation and the Future of Work by 9781839761324
Booksplease Price: £14.24Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living on the cusp of an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end of work as... -
Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism Wendy Liu 9781912248704
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Former insider turned critic Wendy Liu busts the myths of the tech industry, and offers a galvanising argument for why and how we must reclaim technology's potential for the public good. "Lucid,... -
Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism Christian Fuchs 9780745340005
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54The 'end of history' has not taken place. Ideological and economic crisis and the status quo of neoliberal capitalism since 2008 demand a renewed engagement with Marx. But if we are to effectively... -
The Empire at Home: Internal Colonies and the End of Britain by James Trafford 9780745340999
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54Modern Britain is forged through the redeployment of structures that facilitated and legitimized slavery, exploitation and extermination. This is the 'empire at home' and it is inseparable from the... -
The Empire at Home: Internal Colonies and the End of Britain James Trafford 9780745341002
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.79Modern Britain is forged through the redeployment of structures that facilitated and legitimized slavery, exploitation and extermination. This is the 'empire at home' and it is inseparable from the... -
Dream Lovers: The Gamification of Relationships Alfie Bown (Royal Holloway University London) 9780745344874
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.88'An exciting, astute analysis of how our capacity for desire has been slotted into the grooves of digital capitalism, and made to work for profit - from porn to Pokemon' - Richard Seymour We are... -
Foucault with Marx by Jacques Bidet 9781783605378
Booksplease Price: £19.71With this timely commitment, Jacques Bidet unites the theories of arguably the world's two greatest emancipatory political thinkers. In this far-reaching and decisive text, Bidet examines Marxian and... -
Sartre, Imagination and Dialectical Reason: Creating Society as a Work of Art by Austin Hayden Smidt 9781538153079
Booksplease Price: £37.81There are perpetual debates about the extent of freedom in politics. Are we free to choose? Are we overdetermined by our material conditions? Some hybrid between the two? What is more, how are we to... -
Cities in Global Capitalism by Ugo Rossi 9780745689661
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80In what ways are cities central to the evolution of contemporary global capitalism? And in what ways is global capitalism forged by the urban experience? This book provides a response to these... -
Cities in Global Capitalism Ugo Rossi 9780745689678
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34In what ways are cities central to the evolution of contemporary global capitalism? And in what ways is global capitalism forged by the urban experience? This book provides a response to these... -
Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future by 9781839762024
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your... -
CEO Society: The Corporate Takeover of Everyday Life by Peter Bloom 9781786990723
Booksplease Price: £22.47Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) have become the cultural icons of the 21st century. Figures like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg are held up as role models who epitomise the modern pursuit of...