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Capitalism's Eye: Cultural Spaces of the Commodity - Kevin Hetherington
Capitalism's Eye is an extremely ambitious cultural history of how people experienced commodities in the era of industrial expansion. Writing against the dominant argument that the 'society of the spectacle' emerged fully formed in the mid-nineteenth century, Kevin Hetherington explains that the emergence of a culture of mass consumption dominated by visual experience was a much slower process, not tr...
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Critique of Everyday Life Volume III: From Modernity to Modernism - Henri Lefebvre
This third volume of the Critique of Everyday Life completes Lefebvre's monumental project. It seeks to shed light on changes inscribed within everyday life, and at the same time to reveal certain virtualities of the everyday, taking into account the crisis of modernity but also the decisive assertion of technological modernism.
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Critique of Everyday Life Volume I - Henri Lefebvre
The first volume of Henri Lefebvre's Critique of Everyday Life is a work of enormous intellectual range and subtlety by one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers and sociologists. Linking philosophical exposition with economics and literary criticism, lyrical meditations with harsh polemics, the Critique is a profound investigation of alienation in the realities of everyday life. ...
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How Shall I Live My Life?: On Liberating The Earth From Civilization - George Draffan (Interviewed), Jesse Wolf Hardin (Interviewed), Vine Deloria (Interviewed), David Abram (Interviewed), Steven Wise (Interviewed), Jan Lundberg (Interviewed), Derrick Jensen, David Edwards (Interviewed), Thomas Berry (Interviewed), Carolyn Raffensperger (Interviewed), and Kathleen Dean Moore (Interviewed)
Derrick Jensen discusses the destructive dominant culture with ten people who have devoted their lives to undermining it in this collection of interviews.


Whether it is Carolyn Raffensperger and her radical approach to public health, or Thomas Berry on perceiving the sacred; be it Kathleen Dean Moore reminding us that our bodies are made of mountains, rivers, and sunlight; or Vine Deloria assertin...
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Perspectives On Anarchist Theory
The house journal of the Institute for Anarchist Studies has just transformed itself into a veritable palace! The strengths of this once newsletter (the best of new anarchist writing, on theory, history and practice; in-depth book reviews; cutting edge interviews; and work in translation) have been expanded into the finest work of anarchist scholarship available today. A treasure, and a bargain.
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Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire - David Graeber
"If anthropology consists of making others logically compelling in their own cultural settings and intellectually revealing of the human condition, then David Graeber is the consumate anthropologist. Not only does he accomplish this profound feat, he redoubles it by the critical task—now more urgent than ever—of making the possibilities of other people's worlds the basis for understanding our own...
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The Philosophy of Marx - Chris Turner (Translator) and Etienne Balibar
An excellent introduction to Marx's thought from a major French philosopher. Providing a lucid, succinct, and accessible introduction to Marx and his key followers, complete with pedagogical information for the student, Balibar makes the most difficult areas of theory easy to understand. Balibar examines all the key areas of Marx's writings in their wider historical and theoretical context including the con...
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Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights - Bob Torres
Suggest to the average leftist that animals should be part of broader liberation struggles and—once they stop laughing—you'll find yourself casually dismissed. With a focus on labor, property, and the life of commodities, Making a Killing contains key insights into the broad nature of domination, power, and hierarchy. It explores the intersections between human and animal oppressions in re...
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The State - Franz Oppenheimer
Franz Oppenheimer presents a strongly libertarian view of the State. He neither defends it nor condemns it, but seeks to understand its nature and development. Oppenheimer appreciates the State's crucial importance, and he emphasizes its distinctiveness. He does this through one of his most important contributions to political philosophy: the distinction between the economic means and the political means. | Read More | Buy for 19.99 |
Conversations in Maine: Exploring Our Nation's Future - Lyman Paine (Editor), Freddy Paine, Grace Lee Boggs (Editor), and James Boggs (Editor)
Four veteran activists discuss the difficulties of creating social change in the United States. This volume touches on matters of philosophy, art, class analysis, and social strategy, in every instance seeking a new vision of social organization and an effective means of realizing that vision.
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