Scorched Earth: a Letter from the Editor
Scorched Earth insists on the inseparability of social disintegration and environmental collapse under global capitalism. Civil society and ecosystems are eroding simultaneously.
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How to Be a Revolutionary: A Letter from the Editor
Author C. A. Davids was born and lives in Cape Town, but has lived in New York and Shanghai, and in this formally complex and transnational novel, she sets these worlds into orbit around each other, but doesn’t try to make them neatly align.
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The Trial of Julian Assange: a Letter from the Editor
"Julian Assange is a victim of torture and inhuman treatment. This is a threat not just to Assange himself but to freedom of speech everywhere in the world. Nils Melzer’s book is the essential, utterly forensic analysis of this case."
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Ending Fossil Fuels: a Letter from the Editor
"The main intervention we wanted to make with this book, in my opinion, was to make the case clearly and strongly that we have been duped into thinking that climate change is a problem of consumption rather than production."
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Spaces Forces: a Letter from the Editor
"Who owns outer space? And why are Silicon Valley billionaires so very obsessed about blasting off in rockets to spend time on Mars?" –Leo Hollis, editor
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Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: a Letter from the Editor
"Post modernity ‘originated under the star of’ neoliberalism and should be seen as much a system of market discipline as a philosophical set of ideas expressed through cultural forms. It is both the alibi and indictment for neoliberalism, but is too ironic, too cool to call itself out." –Leo Hollis, editor
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The Apocalypse and the End of History: a Letter from the Editor
"In her incisive and accessible study of Islamic jihad, Suzy shows how jihad is the ur-form of contemporary politics, no departure from western capitalism but rather an acceleration and crystallization of it."
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Investigative Aesthetics: a Letter from the Editor
"Matthew Fuller and Eyal Weizman are thinkers at the forefront of this aesthetic revolution, and this book opens up and theorizes a new field that is already transforming the way we think about art practise as well as the wider context of sensing the world." - Leo Hollis, editor
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Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: a Letter from the Editor
"Owen passionately believes that city-making is a socialist project. It is about thinking of a place where equity, fairness and pleasure are part of everyday life." –Leo Hollis, editor
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The Revenge of the Real: a Letter from the Editor
Can we rethink biopolitics–the questions of life and death–in the long shadow of COVID and climate change?
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White Skin, Black Fuel: a Letter from the Editor
Malm and the Zetkin Collective's latest contribution reveals the racist roots of ecofascism.
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The Last Man Takes LSD: a Letter from the Editor
The Foucault Wars never ended, and this latest salvo is by far amongst the most interesting.
