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- Verso Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-589-1
EAN 9781786635891
No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, 'Los Angeles brings it all together.' To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where 'you can rot without feeling it.' To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, ...
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- Verso Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-045-6
EAN 9781784780456
Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the networked objects, services and spaces that define us. It is time to reevaluate the Silicon Valley ...
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- Verso Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-278-8
EAN 9781784782788
In February of 1917 Russia was a backward, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had become the world's first workers' state, straining to be at the vanguard of global revolution. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? In a panoramic sweep, stretching from St Petersburg ...
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The Dilemmas of Lenin
Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution
- Verso Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 284 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-111-4
EAN 9781786631114
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who acknowledged the full magnitude of his intellectual and political achievements. But his legacy has been lost in misinterpretation; he is worshipped but rarely ...
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- Verso Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-706-2
EAN 9781786637062
In this fully updated edition of his coruscating polemic, Tariq Ali shows how, since 1989, politics has become a contest to see who can best serve the needs of the market. In this urgent and wide-ranging case for the prosecution, Ali looks at the people and the events that have informed this moment across the ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-417-7
EAN 9781786634177
In a series of seven trenchant interventions Alain Badiou analyses the decisive developments in Greece since 2011. Badiou considers this Mediterranean country "a sort of open-air political lesson", with much to tell us about the wider situation. Greece is exemplary of "our fundamental contradictions in Europe, which are also ultimately the fundamental contradictions of the ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-298-2
EAN 9781786632982
After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the money economy has all but evaporated. In How Will Capitalism End?, the acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that the world is about to ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-389-1
EAN 9781784783891
The Levellers, revolutionaries that grew out of the explosive tumults of 1642 and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of democracy. In this thrilling narrative John Rees brings to life the men - including John Lilburne, Richard Overton, Thomas Rainsborough - and women who ensured victory at war, and ...
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Portraits
John Berger on Artists
- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 20,30 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-179-8
EAN 9781784781798
One of the world's most celebrated art writers, John Berger takes us through centuries of art in this distinctive history that will enlighten and inspire. In Portraits, Berger connects art and history in revolutionary ways, from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to Randa Mdah's work about contemporary Palestine. In his penetrating and singular ...
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Psychopolitics
Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-577-2
EAN 9781784785772
Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault's biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche. In the course of discussing all the facets of neoliberal psychopolitics fueling our contemporary crisis of freedom, Han elaborates an analytical ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 27,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-423-8
EAN 9781786634238
Just as Donald Trump's victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked liberal Americans, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious "Alt-Right" leaders mystifies many. But the extreme Right has been growing steadily in the US since the 1990s, with the rise of patriot militias. Following 9/11, conspiracy theorists found ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 106 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-328-6
EAN 9781786633286
Since his murder 50 years ago in Bolivia, Ernesto "Che" Guevara has become a universally known revolutionary icon and political figure whose image is among the most recognizable in the world. This dramatic and extensively researched book breathes new life into his story, portraying his struggle through the medium of the underground political comic-one of ...
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Ilya Prigogine; Stengers, Isabelle
Order Out of Chaos
Man's New Dialogue with Nature
- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 32,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-100-8
EAN 9781786631008
Order Out of Chaos is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine and acclaimed philosopher Isabelle Stengers offer an exciting and accessible account of the philosophical implications of thermodynamics. Prigogine and Stengers bring contradictory philosophies of time and chance into a novel and ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-188-6
EAN 9781786631886
Lenin's originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, Zizek argues in his new study and collection of original texts, Lenin's true greatness can be better grasped in the very last couple of years of his political life. Russia had survived foreign invasion, embargo ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 27,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-196-1
EAN 9781786631961
Although later made an icon of "rugged individualism," the American cowboy was a grossly exploited and underpaid seasonal worker, who waged a series of militant strikes in the generally isolated and neglected corners of the Old West. Mark Lause examines those neglected labour conflicts, couching them in the context of the bitter and violent "range ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-054-4
EAN 9781786630544
The idea of fanaticism as a deviant or extreme variant of an already irrational set of religious beliefs is today invoked by the West in order to demonize and psychologize any non-liberal politics. Alberto Toscano's compelling and erudite counter-history explodes this accepted interpretation in exploring the critical role fanaticism played in forming modern politics and ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 225 páginas
PVP: 23,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-132-9
EAN 9781786631329
What is it that makes humans, human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and non-life, between organic and inorganic, this ancient question is more timely than ever. Acclaimed Object-Oriented philosopher Timothy Morton invites us to consider this philosophical issue as eminently political. It is in our relationship with non-humans, that we decided ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-295-5
EAN 9781784782955
High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the premise of Fredric Jameson's major new work in which modernist works, this time in painting (Rubens) and music (Wagner and Mahler), are pitted against late-modernist ones (in film) as well as a variety of postmodern experiments (from SF ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-190-9
EAN 9781786631909
A guide to the thinkers and the ideas that will shape the futureWhat happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the Sartre or De Beauvoir of the internet age? General Intellects argues that we no longer have such singular figures, but we do have general intellects whose writing ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-068-1
EAN 9781786630681
Expanded new edition of Ellen Wood's classic, pithy account of capitalism's originsIn this original and provocative book Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extension of age-old practices of trade and commerce. Rather, it is a late and localized product of ...
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