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From the drones to the penthouse to the sewers - the political geography of the vertical cityVertical is a brilliant re-imagining of the world we live in. Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map. In Vertical Stephen Graham rewrites the city at every level, calling for ...
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A groundbreaking classic of contemporary philosophy for the first time in English translationIn 1969, Emanuele Severino underwent a Vatican trial for the 'fundamental incompatibility' between his thought and the Christian doctrine, and was removed from his position as professor of philosophy at the Catholic University in Milan. Essenza del Nichilismo, published in 1972, was the ...
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ISBN 978-1-78478-634-2
EAN 9781784786342
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A journey through Venezuela's experiments in radical democracy after the age of ChavezSince 2011, a wave of popular mobilizations has swept the globe, from Occupy to the Arab Spring, 15M in Spain and the uprisings in Greece. Their demands were varied, but what they share is a commitment to ideals of radical democracy, and a ...
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The first edition of this classic work from 1905 shows a radically different psychoanalysisThe traditional story about the historical origins of Freudian psychoanalysis implies that the Oedipus complex was part of Freudian theory from the very beginning. However, in this first edition of Three Essays on Sexuality, first published in 1905 and never before translated ...
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ISBN 978-1-78478-622-9
EAN 9781784786229
A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from workREVISED AND UPDATED EDITIONNeoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite.Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism. Against the confused ...
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Philanthro-capitalism: How charity became big businessThe charitable sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the global economy. Nearly half of the more than 85,000 private foundations in the United States have come into being since the year 2000. Just under 5,000 more were established in 2011 alone. This deluge of philanthropy has helped create ...
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According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world.From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been ...
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Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history.Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones ...
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On a September day in 1920, an angry Italian anarchist named Mario Budaexploded a horse-drawn wagon filled with dynamite and iron scrap nearNew York's Wall Street, killing 40 people. Since Buda's prototype thecar bomb has evolved into a poor man's air force, a generic weapon ofmass destruction that now craters cities from Bombay to Oklahoma ...
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Many in the US, including Barack Obama, have called for a post-racial' politics: yet race still divides the country politically, economically and socially.In this expanded new edition of a highly acclaimed work, Manning Marable rejects both liberal inclusionist strategies and the separatist politics of the likes of Louis Farrakhan, arguing powerfully for a new transformationist' ...
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ISBN 978-1-78478-769-1
EAN 9781784787691
With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America's giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or powerThe trial of Angela Davis is remembered as one of America's most historic political trials, and no one can tell the story better than Davis herself. Opening with ...
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A fascinating exploration of the American mind by one of the most important radical writers.In his study of Herman Melville, Mariners, Renegades and Castaways, C.L.R. James wrote: My ultimate aim is to write a study of American Civilization. This project, long in gestation, at last sees the light of day in this posthumous publication of ...
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ISBN 978-1-78478-775-2
EAN 9781784787752
Essential reading for students of African-American historyThe distinguished American civil rights leader, W. E. B. Du Bois first published these fiery essays, sketches, and poems individually nearly 80 years ago in the Atlantic, the Journal of Race Development, and other periodicals. Part essay, part autobiography, Darkwater explicitly addresses significant issues, such as the oppression of ...
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Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an unclassifiable philosopher. His essay On the Concept of History' was written in a state of urgency, as he attempted to escape the Gestapo in 1940, ...
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PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-813-7
EAN 9781781688137
It's easy to imagine the end of the world, the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj i ek has remarked, but we cannot imagine the end of capitalism. Jacobin editor Peter Frase argues that technological advancements and environmental threats will inevitably push our society beyond capitalism, and Four Futures imagines just how this might look. Extrapolating possible futures ...
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A stylishly designed datebook including dates from across worldwide radical historyThe 2017 Verso Radical Diary is not just a beautifully designed week-to-week planner where you can keep track of your coming year, including international holidays, it also includes significant dates in radical history from Spartacus to blacklivesmatter, from the English Civil War to the American ...
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ISBN 978-1-78478-621-2
EAN 9781784786212
Published in collaboration with WikiLeaks: What Cablegate tells us about US foreign policyWhen WikiLeaks first came to prominence in 2010 by releasing 2,325,961 top-secret State Department cables, the world saw for the first time what the US really thought about national leaders, friendly dictators and supposed allies. It also discovered the dark truths of national ...
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Recovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish traditionThey were on the barricades from the avenues of Petrograd to the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto, from the anti-Franco struggle to the anti-Nazi resistance. Before the Holocaust Yiddishland was a vast expanse of Eastern Europe running from the Baltic Sea to the western edge of Russia and ...
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Leading thinkers' critiques of award-winning Postcolonial Theory, as well as the author's responses and reformulationsVivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital was hailed on publication, by the Journal of World Systems Research, as without any doubt a bomb. Chibber presented a bold attempt through the use of the tools of analytical Marxism to ...
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