In Frames of War, Judith Butler explores the media’s portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war. This portrayal has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led to the exploitation and abandonment of whole peoples, who are cast as existential threats rather than as living populations in need of protection. These people are framed as already lost, to imprisonment, unemployment and starvation, and can easily be dismissed. In the twisted logic that rationalizes their deaths, the loss of such populations is deemed necessary to protect the lives of ‘the living.’ This disparity, Butler argues, has profound implications for why and when we feel horror, outrage, guilt, loss and righteous indifference, both in the context of war and, increasingly, everyday life.This book discerns the resistance to the frames of war in the context of the images from Abu Ghraib, the poetry from Guantanamo, recent European policy on immigration and Islam, and debates on normativity and non-violence. In this urgent response to ever more dominant methods of coercion, violence and racism, Butler calls for a re-conceptualization of the Left, one that brokers cultural difference and cultivates resistance to the illegitimate and arbitrary effects of state violence and its vicissitudes.
Mahmoud Darwish was the Palestinian national poet. His poems display a brilliant acuity, a passion for and openness to the world and, above all, a deep and abiding humanity. This book presents a translation of two of Darwish's later works.
How Israeli universities collaborate in Israeli state violence against Palestinians
A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker's short storiesThe Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, One-Way Street and The Arcades Project. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory realms, celebrate the importance of games, and delve into the peculiar relationship between gambling and fortune-telling, and explore the themes that defined Benjamin. The novellas, fables, histories, aphorisms, parables and riddles in this collection are brought to life by the playful imagery of the modernist artist and Bauhaus figure Paul Klee.
A brilliant study of violent self-defense in the struggle for liberation by an award-winning philosopher
We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars.
In order to become ethically acceptable, surrogacy must change beyond recognition - but we need more surrogacy, not less!
The bestselling bible of the movement to defund the police, in an updated edition
An incisive theoretical manifesto arguing that feminism is the only route to an antifascist global future.
What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it?
Free market, competitive capitalism is dead. The separation between politics and economics can no longer be sustained.
A genre-warping, time-travelling horror novel-slash-feminist manifesto from the author of the acclaimed Paradise Rot
From one of the most prominent voices on the American left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism today.
An original and powerful statement which enables us to close the widening gap between liberal democracy and the events of a disordered world.
Shows that the Israeli national myth has its origins in the 19th century, rather than in biblical times when Jewish historians, like scholars in many other cultures, reconstituted an imagined people in order to model a future nation. This book demonstrates the construction of a nationalist myth and the collective mystification that this requires.
A comprehensive philosophy of contemporary life and politics, by one of the sharpest critics of the present
Following the death of Henry Kissinger, his legacy is assessed
What does the good life-and the good society-look like in the twenty-first century?
What is money, where does it come from, and who controls it?In this accessible, brilliantly argued book, leading political economist Ann Pettifor explains in straightforward terms history's most misunderstood invention: the money system. Pettifor argues that democracies can, and indeed must, reclaim control over money production and restrain the out-of-control finance sector so that it serves the interests of society, as well as the needs of the ecosystem.The Production of Money examines and assesses popular alternative debates on, and innovations in, money, such as ';green QE' and ';helicopter money.' She sets out the possibility of linking the money in our pockets (or on our smartphones) to the improvements we want to see in the world around us.
How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe?In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state. Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor simply an extension of age-old practices of trade and commerce. Rather, it is a late and localized product of very specific historical conditions, which required great transformations in social relations and in the relationship between humans and nature.
How capitalism became caught up in the carbon-burning trap
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