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What Would It Mean to Win? - Turbulence Collective
Movements become apparent as "movements" at times of acceleration and expansion. In these heady moments they have fuzzy boundaries, no membership lists--everybody is too engaged in what's coming next, in creating the new, looking to the horizon. But movements get blocked, they slow down, they cease to move, or continue to move without considering their actual effects. When this happens, they can stifle new d...
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce - Slavoj Zizek
Billions of dollars have been hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization. So why has it not been possible to bring the same foces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis?

In this take-no-prisoners analysis, Slavoj Zizek frames teh moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this ce...
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ASR: Anarcho-Syndicalist Review
It's been far too long since we carried this venerable journal,and it's a pleasure to have it back. Venerable it may be, but it remains perhaps the most vital, engaging, relevant and informative anarchist magazine today. The essays and articles pertain more than most, both theoretically, and practically, not just to 'everyday' concerns, but those that ought to concern anyone interested in putting the movemen...
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Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity From a Consumer Culture - Shannon Hayes
Mother Nature has shown her hand. Faced with climate change, dwindling resources, and species extinctions, most Americans understand the fundamental steps necessary to solve our global crises—drive less, consume less, increase self-reliance, buy locally, eat locally, rebuild our local communities.

In essence, the great work we face requires rekindling the home fires.

Radical Homemakers is...
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Theory and Practice: Conversations with Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn - Sasha Lilly (Editor), Howard Zinn (Interviewed), and Noam Chomsky (Interviewed)
Two of the most venerable figures on the American Left—Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky—converse with Sasha Lilley about their lives and political philosophies, looking back at eight decades of struggle and theoretical debate. Howard Zinn, interviewed shortly before his death, reflects on the genesis of his politics, from the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam war movements to opposing empire today, as we...
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Eurocentrism: Modernity, Religion, and Democracy, A Critique of Eurocentrism and Culturalism - Samir Amin
Since its first publication twenty years ago, Eurocentrism has become a classic of radical thought. Written by one of the world's foremost political economists, this original and provocative essay takes on one of the great "ideological deformations" of our time: Eurocentrism. Rejecting the dominant Eurocentric view of world history, which narrowly and incorrectly posits a progression from the Greek an...
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Autonomia: Post-Political Politics - Sylvère Lotringer (Editor) and Christian Marazzi (Editor)
Edited by Sylvère Lotringer and Christian Marazzi with the direct participation of the main leaders and theorists of the Autonomist movement (including Antonio Negri, Mario Tronti, Franco Piperno, Oreste Scalzone, Paolo Virno, Sergio Bologna, and Franco Berardi), this volume is the only first-hand document and contemporaneous analysis that exists of the most innovative post-'68 radical movement in the...
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The German Issue - Sylvère Lotringer (Editor)
The German Issue was originally conceived as a follow-up to Semiotext(e)'s Autonomia/Italy issue, which was published two years earlier. Although ideological terrorism was still a major issue in Germany, what ultimately emerged from these pages was an investigation of two outlaw cities, Berlin and New York, which embodied all the tensions and contradictions of the world at the time. The Germ...
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Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's "Specters of Marx" - Antonio Negri (Contributor), Jacques Derrida (Contributor), Fredric Jameson (Contributor), Terry Eagleton (Contributor), and Michael Sprinkler (Editor)
Major theorists discuss the renowned philosopher Jacques Derrida's most political and controversial work—with a response by Derrida himself. With the publication of Specters of Marx in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding pledge to confront Marx's texts directly and in detail. His characteristically bravura presentation provided a provocative re-reading of the classics in the Western tr...
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Love the Questions: University Education and Enlightenment - Ian Angus
What are universities good for? This question has generated intense debate, particularly since the culture wars and Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind. Where radicals once critiqued universities' elitism, that argument has recently been turned on is head: many academic administrators and business leaders now see a university education as little more than job training for the information ec...
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