What is Badiou’s theory of emancipation? For whom is this emancipation possible? Does emancipation entail an indifference to difference?

One of the central threads in the public discourse on Black womanhood is the idea of the “Jezebel"...

Martin Heidegger was member of the Nazi Party. What does that mean for his thought?

Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals where they explored the relationship between social theory and social change within the project of building a socialist Ethiopia...

This book combines quantitative data analysis with personal interviews to weave together the complicated picture of who the people behind some of our most cherished experiences are.

Richter-Devroe offers an analysis of the forms assumed by women’s political resistance in Occupied Palestine and interrogates how an understanding of such activism might be expanded if one attends to the ‘everyday’...

Through this diverse cast of characters, Chambers-Letson highlights moments of immanent communism: collaborations, romantic relationships, and serendipitous collisions that point towards a liberated future which also exists in our troubled present...

Goodwin offers a brilliant but shocking account of the criminalization of all aspects of reproduction, pregnancy, abortion, birth, and motherhood in the United States...

Weaving together histories of Black communities (in the US and the Americas more broadly), Native Americans, and multiple Latin Americans countries, Briggs tells us how taking of children has been used as a strategy to terrorize communities that demand social justice and change...

We think that we live in democracies: in fact, we live in mediarchies...

Gerth details how the state created brands, promoted and advertised particular products, set up department stores, and facilitated the promotion of certain luxury consumer products in the Mao era....

Together, Chomsky and Pollin show how the forecasts for a hotter planet strain the imagination: vast stretches of the Earth will become uninhabitable, plagued by extreme weather, drought, rising seas, and crop failure....

Klein explores the relationship between music and money, from the early years of the pop industry to contemporary society’s ‘promotional culture’...

Sikkink puts forward a framework of rights and responsibilities; moving beyond the language of rights that has come to dominate scholarship and activism...

French offers a comprehensively researched and finely argued book that traces Barthes engagement with questions of cinema from early research pre-dating the publication of Mythologies to his last work, Camera Lucida,,,

Both a professor of philosophy and a committed political leftist, Burgis wades through a host of contemporary examples, arguing that the common arguments for capitalism and against socialism often rely on questionable logic that can be debated...

Menozzi offers to look at literature and literary processes through the prism of non-synchronism...

How are algorithms changing journalism?

Capitalism seems to many to be in a sort of constant crisis, leaving many struggling to make ends meet...

Whyte uncovers the place of human rights in neoliberal attempts to develop a moral framework for a market society....

How should we understand the role of cultural industries in contemporary society?

Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in the Greater Middle East....

An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society.

Mahdi offers a comparative analysis of the portrayals of Arab Americans in film and interrogates how such representations have been, and continue to be, disrupted and challenged...