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Cory Doctorow
The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI

As we enter the age of AI, we are in danger of being reduced to what Cory Doctorow dubs the 'reverse centaur'. With that term he conjures a human being conscripted as the assistant to a dominant machine. …

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Cecilia Rikap
The Rulers

Capitalism's rulers are not abstract entities or shadowy operators. Amazon, Microsoft and Google are the cloud hegemons that subsume the world through the exercise of their intellectual monopolies. Giants…

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Emmanuel Todd,
The Defeat of the West

In this audacious and taboo-breaking intervention, Emmanuel Todd offers a reinterpretation of the war in Ukraine and the wider crisis of Western dominance. Against prevailing orthodoxies, Todd asks why Uk…

lieferbar ab 23.2.2027.

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Nijmeh Ali
Decolonising the Everyday

While global attention focuses on Gaza and the West Bank, Dr. Nijmeh Ali centres third-generation Palestinian citizens of Israel, activists who refuse erasure from within the heart of the settler-colonial…

lieferbar ab 26.1.2027.

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Tariq Ali
The Wild West and Its Prey

Is the United States empire on the decline? Donald Trump's second presidency has initiated a new cycle of exclamations and laments regarding the collapse of American global power. But as Tariq Ali reminds…

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Perry Anderson
Disputing Disaster

In Disputing Disaster , Perry Anderson picks from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading historian from each of the major powers that survived the conflagration: Fritz Fische…

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Martín Arboleda
Dependence and Freedom

Dependence and Freedom reconstructs an intellectual tradition that was formative in the Chilean road to socialism under the Allende government. Theories of dependence, in particular, shed crucial insights…

lieferbar ab 23.2.2027.

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Miguel Angel Asturias,
Weekend in Guatemala

Though kaleidoscopic and ambitious in range and form, Weekend in Guatamala offers an exhilarating portrait of a nation and a population in turmoil. Borne in the heat and outrage that followed the 1954 ove…

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Marco Baravalle
The Battleground of Art

Activist and curator Marco Baravalle shows how artists across the Global South and North are building alter-institutions -- autonomous, collective infrastructures that challenge both state and market cont…

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Lewis Bassett
The Full English

What is English food? The award-winning podcaster Lewis Bassett is a chef in search of an answer. Whether examining the recent invention of sourdough or the aristocratic assumptions informing the rewildin…

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Simone de Beauvoir, Gisèle Halimi
Djamila Boupacha

In 1960, as the Algerian War for Independence entered its sixth year, 22-year-old Djamila Boupacha was arrested for allegedly planting a bomb in a university cafeteria. While in custody, she was tortured …

lieferbar ab 16.2.2027.

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Ericka Beckman
Agrarian Questions

Between 1910 and 1970, Latin America experienced a rapid and radical transformation. Rural societies became urban, and peasants found themselves forced into precarious wage labor. The Latin American novel…

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Walter Benjamin,
Berlin Childhood around 1900

Composed in exile in the 1930s and published as a whole only after his death, the miniatures that make up Benjamin's Berlin Childhood are crystallized images of childhood experienced in a city later sur…

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Fabrice Bensimon, Laurent Colantonio,
The Great Irish Famine

The Great Irish Famine is an accessible critical account to one of the deadliest humanitarian catastrophes of the nineteenth century and a defining episode in Irish and British history. Drawing on the lat…

lieferbar ab 9.2.2027.

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Franco Berardi,
Heroes

Through an exhilarating mix of philosophical and psychoanalytical theory and reportage - from the suicide epidemic in Korea to the wave of American mass murders - the prominent Italian thinker Franco Bera…

lieferbar ab 12.1.2027.

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John Berger
A Painter of our Time

The Essential John Berger

Exiled with his wife in 1950s London, Hungarian artist Janos Lavin struggles to find financial stability and artistic freedom in his new home. A friend, John, organises an exhibition of Lavin's work, only…

lieferbar ab 3.11.2026.

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John Berger
A Seventh Man

The Essential John Berger

A new edition of the seminal classic exploring the fate of migrant workers

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John Berger
Art and Revolution

The Essential John Berger

A wrenching portrait of the Russian sculptor and a tribute to the potential of political art

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John Berger
Corker's Freedom

The Essential John Berger

John Berger, storyteller, critic and political writer, brings us this tender and bittersweet novel of a man's dreams of freedom and romance. In his sixty-third year, quite unexpectedly, William Corker, th…

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John Berger, Nella Bielski
Goya's Last Portrait/A Question of Geography

The Essential John Berger

Goya's Last Portrait presents the artist struggling to comprehend the relationship between his life and his work. Having painted humanity at its most violent and depraved amid the horrors of war, and also…

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