Leader of the Frankfurt School on the music of modernism.
A collection of essays by the leading French thinker
Fascinating study of the relationship between the philosopher and the psychoanalyst by major Slovenian scholar.
The existentialist philosopher chronicles his time in the Resistance in the Second World War.
Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political violence through the sites, spaces, infrastructure and symbols of the world's rapidly expanding metropolitan areas.Drawing on a wealth of original research, Stephen Graham shows how Western militaries and security forces now perceive all urban terrain as a conflict zone inhabited by lurking shadow enemies. Urban inhabitants have become targets that need to be continually tracked, scanned and controlled. Graham examines the transformation of Western armies into high-tech urban counter-insurgency forces. He looks at the militarization and surveillance of international borders, the use of ';security' concerns to suppress democratic dissent, and the enacting of legislation to suspend civilian law. In doing so, he reveals how the New Military Urbanism permeates the entire fabric of urban life, from subway and transport networks hardwired with high-tech ';command and control' systems to the insidious militarization of a popular culture corrupted by the all-pervasive discourse of ';terrorism.'
Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America - volume 1.
Born in Martinique, Frantz Fanon (192561) trained as a psychiatrist in Lyon before taking up a post in colonial Algeria. He had already experienced racism as a volunteer in the Free French Army, in which he saw combat at the end of the Second World War. In Algeria, Fanon came into contact with the Front de Libration Nationale, whose ruthless struggle for independence was met with exceptional violence from the French forces. He identified closely with the liberation movement, and his political sympathies eventually forced him out the country, whereupon he became a propagandist and ambassador for the FLN, as well as a seminal anticolonial theorist.David Macey's eloquent life of Fanon provides a comprehensive account of a complex individual's personal, intellectual and political development. It is also a richly detailed depiction of postwar French culture. Fanon is revealed as a flawed and passionate humanist deeply committed to eradicating colonialism.Now updated with new historical material, Frantz Fanon remains the definitive biography of a truly revolutionary thinker.
Impassioned and intimate writing to Palestinians from celebrated American writers
What is life really like in Gaza and the West Bank?
Essential writings from a leading British Socialist thinker
Dej vu, which doubles and confuses our experience of time, is a psychological phenomenon with peculiar relevance to our contemporary historical circumstances. From this starting point, the acclaimed Italian philosopher Paolo Virno examines the construct of memory, the passage of time, and the ';end of history.' Through thinkers such as Bergson, Kojeve and Nietzsche, Virno shows how our perception of history can become suspended or paralysed, making the distinction between ';before' and ';after,' cause and effect, seem derisory. In examining the way the experience of time becomes historical, Virno forms a radical new theory of historical temporality.
From the 1880s to the 1920s, a profound social awakening among women extended the possibilities of change far beyond the struggle for the vote. Amid the growth of globalized trade, mass production, immigration and urban slums, American and British women broke with custom and prejudice. Taking off corsets, forming free unions, living communally, buying ethically, joining trade unions, doing social work in settlements, these ';dreamers of a new day' challenged ideas about sexuality, mothering, housework, the economy and citizenship. Drawing on a wealth of research, Sheila Rowbotham has written a groundbreaking new history that shows how women created much of the fabric of modern life. These innovative dreamers raised questions that remain at the forefront of our twenty-first-century lives.
Leading international voices argue for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel.
This text shows that the "New Economy" was a fragile phenomenon which was never freed from fundamental problems continuing to afflict the global economy. Dismantling the hype surrounding US expansion, it shows that transcending economic stagnation in the future is not yet a foregone conclusion.
Voices of Sartre, Lukacs, Chomsky, Harvey and others in conversation with NLR.
The authoritative first-hand account of contemporary Venezuela, Hugo Chvez places the country's controversial and charismatic president in historical perspective, and examines his plans and programs. Welcomed in 1999 by the inhabitants of the teeming shanty towns of Caracas as their potential savior, and greeted by Washington with considerable alarm, this former golpista-turned-democrat took up the aims and ambitions of Venezuela's liberator, simn Bolivar. Now in office for over a decade, President Chvez has undertaken the most wide-ranging transformation of oil-rich Venezuela for half a century, and dramatically affected the political debate throughout Latin America. In this updated edition, Richard Gott reflects on the achievements of the Bolivarian revolution, and the challenges that lie ahead.
Acclaimed author presents a decade's research toward creating an anthropology of the future.
All-star cast of radical intellectuals discuss the continued importance of communism.
The Invention of Paris is a tour through the streets and history of the French capital under the guidance of radical Parisian author and publisher Eric Hazan. Hazan reveals a city whose squares echo with the riots, rebellions and revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Combining the raconteur's ear for a story with a historian's command of the facts, he introduces an incomparable cast of characters: the literati, the philosophers and the artists—Balzac, Baudelaire, Blanqui, Flaubert, Hugo, Maney, and Proust, of course; but also Doisneau, Nerval and Rousseau. It is a Paris dyed a deep red in its convictions. It is haunted and vitalized by the history of the barricades, which Hazan retells in rich detail. The Invention of Paris opens a window on the forgotten byways of the capital's vibrant and bloody past, revealing the city in striking new colors.
A broad-ranging collection of essays, this book contributes to a re-thinking about humans' relation to animals. It explores the diverse ways in which animals shape the formation of human identity, looking, for example, at the radicalization and gendering of animal images.
A major philosophical intervention into contemporary cultural theory that challenges the terms of its understanding of time and history.
Stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society.
A key dialogue on identity and nationalism by major critics of capitalism.
Classic work of geography analysing the new possibilities for spatial thought
Major French thinkers shows how the discourse of economics warps thought.
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