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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 -
New Work New Culture: Work we want and a culture that strengthens us Frithjof Bergmann 9781789040647
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.44The "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 good or ill,... -
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: £10.42The 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 cleaning... -
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 Terry Tapp's... -
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: £14.50Through 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... -
Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures by Mark Fisher
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen. Fisher searches for the traces of these lost futures... -
Ugly Beauty: Jazz in the 21st Century Philip Freeman 9781789046328
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56What does jazz "mean" 20 years into the 21st century? Has streaming culture rendered music literally meaningless, thanks to the removal of all context beyond the playlist? Are there any traditions... -
Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right Michael Brooks 9781789042306
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16"A brilliant critique of the Right with very sharp insight on some of the shortcomings of the Left, this book is a must-read for anyone looking to understand how dishonest actors spread their... -
Printed in Utopia: The Renaissance's Radicalism Simon 9781789043839
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.19Printed in Utopia examines the bloody era of the Renaissance in all of its contradictions and moments of utopian possibility. From the dissenting religious anarchists of the 17th century, to the... -
Reality Squared: On Reality TV and Left Politics Tom Syverson 9781789045819
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In this concise but rich book, Syverson refutes the common notion that reality television is superficial or inauthentic, explaining how such criticisms fail to appreciate the way that we form social... -
The End of the Megamachine: A Brief History of a Failing Civilization Fabian Scheidler 9781789042719
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.55The End of the Megamachine provides a uniquely comprehensive picture of the roots of the destructive forces that are threatening the future of humankind today. Spanning 5000 years of history, the... -
Famous for Fifteen People: The Songs of Momus 1982 - 1995 John William Daniel Robinson 9781789047271
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.19The life and songs of singer-songwriter Momus during his time at Creation records and beyond. Momus - the stage name of musician Nicholas Currie - is one of the most prolific and talented indie... -
Claude Cahun: The Soldier with No Name by Gavin James Bower 9781780990446
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Claude Cahun is the most important artist you've never heard of - until now. Writer, photographer, lesbian; revolutionary activist, surrealist, resistance fighter - Cahun witnessed the birth of the... -
Strangled: Identity, Status, Structure and the Stranglers by Phil Knight 9781782797975
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64The Stranglers occupy a paradoxical position within the history of popular music. Although major artists within the punk and new-wave movements, their contribution to those genres has been... -
Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE, The Bruno Latour 9781846944222
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The Prince and the Wolf contains the transcript of a debate which took place on 5th February 2008 at the London School of Economics (LSE) between the prominent French sociologist, anthropologist, and... -
Unpatriotic History of the Second World War James Heartfield 9781780993782
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.19Sixty million people died in the Second World War, and still they tell us it was the Peoples War. The official history of the Second World War is Victors History. This is the history of the Second... -
Capitalised Education - An immanent materialist account of Kate Middleton David R. Cole 9781782790365
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.45Capitalised Education is not a biography of Kate Middleton, but, rather, understands her wedding on April 29th 2011 as a 'plateau', wherein a complex knot of social, political and economic forces...