A major history of art from one of the world's leading writers and art critics
Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to '33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers the surviving transcripts, which appear here for the first time in English. This eclectic collection demonstrates the range of Benjamin's thinking and his enthusiasm for popular sensibilities. His celebrated ';Enlightenment for Children' youth programs, his plays, readings, book reviews, and fiction reveal Benjamin in a creative, rather than critical, mode. They flesh out ideas elucidated in his essays, some of which are also represented here, where they cover topics as varied as getting a raise and the history of natural disasters, subjects chosen for broad appeal and examined with passion and acuity.Delightful and incisive, this is Walter Benjamin channeling his sophisticated thinking to a wide audience, allowing us to benefit from a new voice for one of the twentieth century's most respected thinkers.
Essential reading for students of African-American history
A journey through the uncomputable remains of computer history
This 600-page volume of Luxemburg's Complete Works contains her writings On Revolution from 1906 to 1909 - covering the 1905-06 Russian Revolution, an epoch-making event, and its aftermath. Over 80 per cent of writings on this volume have never before appeared in English. The volume contains numerous writings never before available in English, such as her pathbreaking essay "Lessons of the Three Dumas," which presents a unique perspective on the transition to socialism, her "Notes on the English Revolution" of the 1640s, and numerous writings on of the role of the mass strike in fomenting revolutionary transformation. All of the material in the volume consists of new translations, from German, Polish, and Russian originals.
From Ducks, Newburyport to zombie movies and the Fast and Furious franchise, how climate anxiety permeates our culture
Ending the fossil fuel industry is our only hope of a liveable climate.
The radical history of space exploration from the Russian Cosmists to Elon Musk
How I became an abolitionist: a memoir of Black Lives Matter
From here to utopia. New directions in political theory
A powerful challenge to the way we understand the politics of race and the history of anti-racist struggle
Why the wind, and energy it produces, should not be private property
Shortlisted for the British Academy's Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2020A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman's family story
Philosopher, film star, father of 'post truth': the real story of Jacques Derrida
Why are cities centres of power? A sociological analysis of urban politics
Leading scientists, epidemiologists, and philosophers explore the unfolding Covid-19 pandemic and argue for the necessity of scientific reasoning and collective responsibility.
This analysis of John F. Kennedy's role in the US invasion of Vietnam asks: was he the "shining knight" about to withdraw from Vietnam, end the Cold War arms race and smash the CIA - stopped only by the assassin's bullet?
The Fall of the Tory Party
How the political violence of modern jihad echoes the crises of western liberalism.
A critically acclaimed analysis of anti-Muslim racism from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, in a fully revised and expanded second edition.
Radical universalism vs postcolonial theory
When Crisis Becomes the Norm: What Can We Do to Demand Change?
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