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Shakespeare for Snowflakes: On Slapstick and Sympathy Ian Burrows 9781789041613
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Drawing 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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.20We 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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Albion'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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.20Apologies 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: $41.98Booksplease Price: $30.35The "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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84This 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: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.14The 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: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.58Economic 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45"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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Post-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: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54"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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Could 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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Most 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: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38A 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: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05The 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: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.70A 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: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54The '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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Most 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: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.68The 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: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54"...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: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38In 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: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05What 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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Modern 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: $50.38Booksplease Price: $35.18More 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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Is 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: $33.58Booksplease Price: $25.05We 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: $30.68Through 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: $30.05The 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... -
Conscience of a Progressive, The Steven Klees 9781789044966
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05The Conscience of a Progressive begins where Senator Barry Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative (1960) and Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal (2007) leave off. Prof. Klees draws on 45... -
Corona Generation, The: Coming of Age in a Crisis Jennie Bristow 9781789046939
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54It is already clear that the COVID-19 crisis will have huge social and economic implications. The Corona Generation considers its effect on the generation currently coming of age: the demographic... -
China, the USA and Capitalism's Last Crusade: When Survival Is All That Matters William Briggs 9781789047677
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05As the sun rises on China and sets on America, the world holds its breath. China, the USA and Capitalism's Last Crusade looks at the rise of China and the decline of the USA but from a different... -
Failure of Vision, A: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism Doug Greene 9781789047233
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $25.05Doug Greene takes an in-depth and critical look at the life and ideas of Michael Harrington, one of America's most important democratic socialists. A Failure of Vision discusses one of the most... -
Concepts for a Democratic and Ecological Society Yavor Tarinski 9781789049220
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54Yavor Tarinski examines the fundamental conflict between democratic aspirations and the imposed norms of capitalism, the potential for directly democratic and ecologically designed cities, the... -
London Dream, The: Migration and the Mythology of the City Chris McMillan 9781789044201
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $30.35The London Dream tells the story of a city that promises opportunity, excitement and the possibility of prosperity. It is a mythology has launched millions of migrant journeys. No one benefits more... -
End of Capitalism, The: The Thought of Henryk Grossman Ted Reese 9781789047738
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $20.75Henryk Grossman is a name most socialists or students of political and social theory - let alone the mass of working people around the world - have probably never heard of. Yet Grossman, a Polish Jew... -
Kill All Normies - Online culture wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the alt-right Angela Nagle 9781785355431
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle ground is the internet. On one side the "alt right" ranges from the once obscure neo-reactionary and... -
Romeo and Juliet in Palestine - Teaching Under Occupation Tom Sperlinger 9781782796374
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54Is 'Romeo and Juliet' really a love story, or is it a play about young people living in dangerous circumstances? How might life under occupation produce a new reading of 'Julius Caesar'? What choices... -
Uncommon Owen Hatherley 9781846948770
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54If we remember them at all, the Sheffield pop group Pulp are remembered for jolly class warfare ditty 'Common People', for the celebrity of their interestingly-named frontman, for the latter waving... -
Dead People Stefany Anne Golberg 9781785353369
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.14Dead People is a book of eulogies, written for an eclectic assortment of famous and interesting people who died in recent years. The essays were written by Stefany Anne Golberg and 2013 Whiting Award... -
Why Young People Don't Vote Mitchell Agg 9781782792185
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54Why don't young people vote? It's a question that has been asked by pollsters for years. The 18- to 24-year-old demographic records the lowest voter turnout at elections and it doesn't look to be...