The Relationship Is the Project: A Guide to Working With Communities by Jade Lillie (Editor); Kate Larsen (Editor); Cara Kirkwood (As told to); Jax Brown (As told to)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Community-engaged practice is not an art form. It’s not an add-on. It’s a way of working; a deep collaboration.The Relationship is the Project features provocations, tools and practical tips for working with communities. This includes the ethics and logistics of working on community-based projects, from ...Show more
Kin: Family in the 21st century by Marina Kamenev
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Written by journalist Marina Kamenev, Kin: Family in the 21st century is an incisive and powerful look at how families are created today, and how they might be created in the future. Here’s an exercise: take a piece of paper. Grab a pen, pencil, crayon — any drawing utensil within reach. Now, draw a ty ...Show more
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that 'time is money.' . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing' EsquireWe're living on the wrong clock. And it's destroying us.Our life is dominated by the corporate clock that s ...Show more
What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression: a Guide for activists by Victor Serge
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This classic manual on repression by revolutionary activist Victor Serge offers fascinating anecdotes about the tactics of police provocateurs and an analysis of the documents of the tsarist secret police in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. With a new introduction by Howard Zinn collaborator and ...Show more
Decolonize Drag by Kareem Khubchandani; Bhakti Shringarpure (Editor)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Decolonize That! Ser.
Although imagined as a queer subcultural practice, drag seems to be everywhere we look: from AI filters on TikTok to brunchtime entertainment, from state legislations to political rallies. Yet as drag enters the mainstream--largely due to the intense, global popularity of reality TV competition RuPaul's ...Show more
The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Cited by Georg Lukács as a principal source of literary modernism, Walter Benjamin's study of the baroque stage-form called Trauerspiel (literally 'mourning play') is the most complete document of his literary and philosophical practice. Engaging with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century German playwright ...Show more
Love and Money, Sex and Death by McKenzie Wark
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
After a successful career, a twenty-year marriage, and raising two kids, McKenzie Wark has a particularly extreme midlife crisis: coming out as a trans woman. Changing both social role and bodily form recast her whole relation to the world and reveal it to her as something strange and different. Her pa ...Show more
The Rare Metals War The dark side of clean energy and digital technologies by Guillaume Pitron
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth's most precious metals - but they are running out. And what will happen when they do? The green-tech revolution has been lauded as the silver bullet to a new world. One that is at last free of oil, pollutio ...Show more
Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth by Tom Burgis
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
"It was easy for Vladimir Putin. He could erase the past by hurling secret files into his KGB station’s furnace at the end of the Cold War. In the era of globalised corruption he has since helped to create, destroying the past is not so simple. Every bribe, every kickback to a crony, every transfer of d ...Show more
In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki; Thomas J. Harper (Translator); Edward Seidensticker (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture.'We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates... Were it not for shadows, there would be no ...Show more
The New World Disorder: How the West Is Destroying Itself by Peter R. Neumann
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A coruscating analysis of current international relations, setting out the dangers the world will face if the West does not succeed in reinventing itself. The West is facing an unprecedented crisis. Russia has launched a war of aggression against Ukraine - just months after the USA suffered a foreign po ...Show more
The Greatest Evil is War by Chris Hedges
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Now with a new preface for the paperback edition by the author, an unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war by one of our finest war correspondents. Drawn from experience and interviews by Pulitzer-prize-winner Chris Hedges, a devastating look the hidden costs of war, what it does to in ...Show more