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What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it?

Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon and other multinational corporations.

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.

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

Why Does America Go to War?

An incisive theoretical manifesto arguing that feminism is the only route to an antifascist global future.

A manifesto for the neo-luddite revolution: an exhilarating challenge to the way we think about work, technology, progress, and what we want from the future

Free market, competitive capitalism is dead. The separation between politics and economics can no longer be sustained.

What does the CO-VID 19 tell us about the climate breakdown, and what should we do about it?

Consensus-shattering account of automation technologies and labour-market malfunctions.

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.

Women - Reclaim the city!

A different kind of politics for a new kind of society - beyond work, scarcity and capitalism

A classic philosophical study on how political and cultural ideas come to dominate.

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.