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Shakespeare for Snowflakes: On Slapstick and Sympathy Ian Burrows 9781789041613
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Drawing on plays by Shakespeare, Sarah Kane, Sophocles, Samuel Beckett, and others, this book examines the ways in which these dramatists manipulated the actor's body to demand laughter and/or... -
Zeitgeist Nostalgia: On populism, work and the ‘good life’ by Alessandro Gandini
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.62We live an age of nostalgia, incarnated by populist fantasies of "taking back control" and making nations "great again". In the long aftermath of the 2007-08 economic crisis, nostalgia has been... -
Albion's Secret History: Snapshots of England's Pop Rebels and Outsiders Guy Mankowski 9781789040289
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Albion's Secret History compiles snapshots of English pop culture's rebels and outsiders, from Evelyn Waugh to PJ Harvey via The Long Blondes and The Libertines. By focusing on cultural figures who... -
Serkeftin: A Narrative of the Rojava Revolution Marcel Cartier 9781789040128
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789040128Author Marcel CartierFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Zero BooksPublisher Zero Books -
New Work New Culture: Work we want and a culture that strengthens us Frithjof Bergmann 9781789040647
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.45The "job system" for organizing work has only existed for around 200 years - since the industrial revolution. Always problematic, it now approaches collapse, and what follows, either for... -
Night: A Philosophy of the After-Dark Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh 9781789042771
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02This short book engages the myriad dimensions of Night, through ancient rituals, medieval storytelling, modern philosophy, and futuristic images, in order to explore the human experience of the... -
Murder in Notting Hill by Mark Olden
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64The truth about one of Britain's most infamous race murders has never been revealed. At around midnight on May 17 1959, a white gang ambushed 32-year-old Antiguan carpenter Kelso Cochrane on a... -
Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-porn Addicts - A defence of growth, progress, industry and stuff Leigh Phillips 9781782799603
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.04Economic growth, progress, industry and, erm, stuff have all come in for a sharp kicking from the green left and beyond in recent years. Everyone from black-hoodied Starbucks window-smashers to... -
Sweetening the Pill - or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control Holly Grigg-spall 9781780996073
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26"Holly Grigg-Spall is fearless, and her courageous advocacy on behalf of women whose stories are too often silenced is a model for others trying to make positive change through health activism. Read... -
Post Cinematic Affect by Steven Shaviro 9781846944314
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Post-Cinematic Affect is about what it feels like to live in the affluent West in the early 21st century. Specifically, it explores the structure of feeling that is emerging today in tandem with new... -
Quadruple Object, The Graham Harman 9781846947001
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40"Harman's style often evokes that of a William James merged with the spirit of H.P. Lovecraft." Olivier Surel in Actu Philosophia In this book the metaphysical system of Graham Harman is presented... -
Starry Speculative Corpse - Horror of Philosophy vol. 2 Eugene Thacker 9781782798910
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Could it be that the more we know about the world, the less we understand it? Could it be that, while everything has been explained, nothing has meaning? Extending the ideas presented in his book In... -
Did You Kill Anyone?: Reunderstanding My Military Experience as a Critique of Modern Culture Scott Beauchamp 9781785357862
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Most American soldiers in Iraq had a deep, thick plastic box called a "guerrilla box" which usually sat at the end of their cot. Soldiers would keep all kinds of things in their box. Weapon... -
Millennials and the Moments That Made Us - A Cultural History of the U.S. from 1982-Present Shaun Scott 9781785355837
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56A generation on the move, a country on the brink, and a young author's search to find out how we got here. Millennials and the Moments That Made Us is a cultural history of the United States, as seen... -
Artist at Work, Proximity of Art and Capitalism Bojana Kunst 9781785350009
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The main affirmation of artistic practice must today happen through thinking about the conditions and the status of the artist's work. Only then can it be revealed that what is a part of the... -
Coming Revolution, The: Capitalism in the 21st Century Ben Reynolds 9781785357091
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.19A technological revolution is driving capitalism toward crisis and collapse. Can our society evolve in time to rescue the future? Radical advances in automation, robotics, and computer technology... -
Cloud Time Rob Coley 9781780990958
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The 'Cloud', hailed as a new digital commons, a utopia of collaborative expression and constant connection, actually constitutes a strategy of vitalist post-hegemonic power, which moves to dominate... -
Debunking the Myth of America's Poodle: Great Britain Wants War Nu'man Abd al-Wahid 9781785359200
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Most writing today by activists and opponents of foreign policy is rooted in the 1960s. Underpinning many of these books is the unquestioned assumption that contemporary British imperialism is an... -
Falling Rate of Learning and the Neoliberal Endgame, The David J. Blacker 9781780995786
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75The current neoliberal mutation of capitalism has evolved beyond the days when the wholesale exploitation of labor underwrote the world system's expansion. While "normal" business profits plummet and... -
Serf`s Journal, A - The Story of the United States` Longest Wildcat Strike Terry Tapp 9781785351198
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40"...A Serf's Journal is a powerful and much-needed overdue call for solidarity today." Alfie Bown, Hong Kong Review of Books Recalling the JeffBoat incident of 2001, A Serf's Journal is... -
What's Left of the World: Education, Identity and the Post-Work Political Imagination David J. Blacker 9781789040104
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56In 1960, Paul Goodman argued that the Fordist system that treated people as mere cogs in a machine had created a profound unhappiness in young people and in American society as a whole. More than... -
Alphonso Lingis and Existential Genealogy: The first full length study of the work of Alphonso Lingis Alexander E. Hooke 9781789041767
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50What is philosophy? Is philosophy an academic discipline that produces arguments and theories, or is philosophy also about understanding the world through stories, metaphors, analogies, ambience, and... -
Fear of Music (2nd Edition): Why People Get Rothko but Don't Get Stockhausen David Stubbs 9781803417608
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Modern art is a mass phenomenon. Conceptual artists like Damien Hirst enjoy celebrity status. Works by 20th century abstract artists like Mark Rothko are selling for record breaking sums, while the... -
15 Years of Speculative Realism: 2007-2022 Charlie Johns 9781803414645
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.75More than 15 years have passed since the speculative realism conference at Goldsmiths College, London, hosted Ray Brassier, Iain Hamilton Grant, Graham Harman, and Quentin Meillassoux. Their dictum... -
Uninhabited: Science Fiction and the Decolonial by Ben Woodard 9781803414485
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Is it inhabited? This question makes the shared stakes of science fiction and colonialism obvious, wherein the wide imaginaries of empire and what counts as life scientifically, ethically,... -
We Must Begin with the Land: Seeking Abundance and Liberation through Social Ecology by Stephen E. Hunt 9781803415857
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93We live at a time of intractable armed conflicts starved of resolution. We inhabit a planet where damaged ecosystems are hungry for restoration. We endure chronic inequalities of wealth and power... -
Levinas Unhinged by Tom Sparrow 9781782790563
Booksplease Price: £14.61Through six heterodox essays this book extracts a materialist account of subjectivity and aesthetics from the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. More than a work of academic commentary that would leave... -
Society Elsewhere: Why the Gravest Threat to Humanity Will Come From Within by Francis Sanzaro 9781785354700
Booksplease Price: £14.31The biggest political and economic issue of the 21st and 22nd centuries will not be food, war, overpopulation, or the environment, but boredom and uselessness. The biggest problem will be figuring... -
End of the End of History, The: Politics in the Twenty-First Century Alex Hochuli 9781789045239
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The "End of History" is over. The idea that Western liberal democracy was the "final form of human government" has been exposed as bluster: the old order is crumbling before our eyes. Angry... -
Borderlines: The Edges of US Capitalism, Immigration, and Democracy Daniel Melo 9781789045062
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The current U.S. immigration nightmare is a product of capitalism. The familiar, heartbreaking stories of dangerous treks, migrant exploitation, asylum, family separation and detention all have their... -
On a Common Culture - The Idea of a Shared National Culture by Brian Graham
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64In the United Kingdom, the notion of a common culture has always been suggestive of a national culture which is accessible to all and provides various kinds of benefits to all, including... -
Capitalist Realism (New Edition) – Is there no alternative? by Mark Fisher
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78After 1989, capitalism has presented itself as the only realistic political economic system. What effects has this 'capitalist realism' had on work, culture, education and mental health? Is it... -
Melancology - Black Metal Theory and Ecology Scott Wilson 9781780991894
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Melancology addresses the notorious musical genre black metal as a negative form of environmental writing that 'blackens' the cosmos. This book conjures a new word and concept that conjoins 'black'... -
Dark Matters - A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City Nick Dunn 9781782797487
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Dark Matters explores the city at night as a place and time within which escape from the confines of the daytime is possible. More specifically, it is a state of being. There is a long history of... -
Weird Realism - Lovecraft and Philosophy Graham Harman 9781780992525
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50As Holderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarme to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers. Lovecraft was one of the brightest stars of the horror and science... -
In the Dust of This Planet - Horror of Philosophy vol. 1 Eugene Thacker 9781846946769
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64"Thacker's discourse on the intersection of horror and philosophy is utterly original and utterly captivating..." Thomas Ligotti, author of The Conspiracy Against the Human Race The world is... -
Combined and Uneven Apocalypse - Luciferian Marxism Evan Williams 9781846944680
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50From the repurposed rubble of salvagepunk to undead hordes banging on shopping mall doors, from empty waste zones to teeming plagued cities, Combined and Uneven Apocalypse grapples with the... -
Non Stop Inertia by Ivor Southwood 9781846945304
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.45In our culture of short-term work, mobile communications an rolling media it seems we are always on the move; but are w really getting anywhere? Non-Stop Inertia argues that this appearance of... -
Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left Ben Burgis 9781789042108
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Many serious leftists have learned to distrust talk of logic and logical fallacies, associated with right-wing "logicbros". This is a serious mistake. Unlike the neoliberal technocrats, who can point... -
Advancing Conversations: Aubrey de Grey - Advocate for an Indefinite Human Lifespan by Douglas Lain 9781785353963
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.66Advancing Conversations is a line of interview books documenting conversations with artists, authors, philosophers, economists, scientists, and activists whose works are aimed at the future and at...