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An insider’s account of the videogame industry telling how gaming can become a force for good

One of the most provocative and controversial writers of his time, these essays comprise George Bataille’s most incisive study of surrealism

A group portrait of six of the finest historians of the First World War

Far from heralding the return of the nation-state, today's wars and struggles are fights for the future of globalization The unipolar world has exploded. In the wake of a pandemic that has tested economies and societies, geopolitical conflict is no longer a prospect but a reality. The Rest and the West locates the makings of this situation in turbulent dynamics of the capitalist world market. Understanding the conjuncture to spur competition for the political organization of the spaces of globalization, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson resist the reduction of this conflict to great power rivalries or processes of economic decoupling. Instead, they investigate how geoeconomic forces cross the rising centrality of war to capital operations and the transformations of capitalism. The arc of Mezzadra and Neilson's analysis is wide, encompassing topics such as the pandemic crisis of mobility, shifts in the relation of social reproduction to capital circulation, state transformation in Russia and China, the politics of infrastructure and energy, and the impact of geopolitical change upon social struggles. The book's gambit is to forge a theory of imperialism adequate to a world in which the rest no longer provides a putative unity that makes and opposes the West.

Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, and prefaced by Jacques-Alain Miller, My Teaching is a clear, concise introduction to the thought of the influential psychoanalyst after Freud.

In pursuit of the liberating powers of the crowd

The Making of a Young Revolutionary

Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump.

The New Economy never arrived, instead we have regressed towards darker times. Have we already entered the age of techno-feudalism? Inequality, stagnant productivity, endemic instability: The new economy of the nineties promised a new era of freedom and prosperity fuelled by technology and innovation. It didn't deliver. Certainly, algorithms are everywhere, but this does not mean that capitalism has become civilized or provided for the 99%. In the hands of private corporations, the digitalization of the world drives us toward an even darker future. The return of monopolies, the dependence of subject-citizens on platforms, the blurring of the distinction between the economic and the political all epitomize a systemic mutation. Information and data networks push the economy in the direction of the feudal logic of rent, dispossession, and domination of the many by the few. Techno-feudalism offers a fresh genealogy of the Silicon Valley consensus and its aporias. It disentangles the principles of an emerging system-wide rationale. Large firms compete in cyberspace to gain control over data sources. In this new economic order, capital is moving away from production to focus on predation. Acclaimed political economist Cédric Durand's devastating critique of our current Silicon Valley dominated economy points the way toward the systemic changes we need to build a more just society.

Liberal civilisation is in crisis - now is a time of monsters.

What is the Commune? A leading radical historian looks at the global resurgence of the commune and asks how they can become sites of liberation.

Challenging our understanding of social struggles as movements, Mehmet Dosemeci traces a 300-year counter-history of struggle predicated on disruption.

A devastating critique of the forces propelling us beyond critical temperature limits, by the bestselling author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Reportage from the frontline of the crisis, from the leading Israeli journalist

How to build a fairer, more neuro-inclusive society

A deeply personal exploration of family, empire, art and identity - from the author of Potential History

The Extraordinary Life of a Revolutionary Journalist

A portrait of a brilliant journalist and tireless campaigner for justice

‘Al-Ali remains a hero in the Arab world, in particular to the Palestinians, who say his name with the same tenderness with which they mention their great poets’ Joe Sacco, from the Introduction

An uncompromising look at Nigeria’s crisis of democracy by a renowned essayist and critic.

Britain is broken, but how did it become so divided?

A groundbreaking, potent novel about the destructive force of romantic love from award-winning writer Vigdis Hjorth

Exiled in 1948, Palestinians were robbed of their private property when looting became weaponized

A detailed disassembly manual for people who want to dismantle Big Tech