Télécharger le livre :  The Space of the World

Over the past thirty years, humanity has made a huge mistake. We handed over to big tech decisions that have allowed them to build what has become our "space of the world" – the highly artificial space of social media platforms where much of our social life now unfolds....
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-09-17

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Télécharger le livre :  The Caribbean Race Reader

This book is the first critical anthology in English on the history and legacy of race in the Caribbean. It brings together the major debates, lines of inquiry, and theories around race and racism that have emerged out of the Caribbean from the beginning of European...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-09-11
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  Power and Technology

The definition of power varies across disciplines. Social scientists tend to deal with social power, philosophers of technology with the relation between technology and society, and ecologists with the relation between natural and social power. Concepts of power and...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-09-11

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Télécharger le livre :  Beyond States

Today, the majority of the peoples of the planet live in nation-states, based upon the idea, if never the reality, of a single people, a single culture, a single rule of law and a single source of sovereign authority. But will they continue to do so in the future?  None...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-09-11

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Télécharger le livre :  The Anti-Racist Media Manifesto

How can we make media anti-racist? The rise of the far right, the impacts of Covid-19, and the mediated evidence of racist police violence have challenged the dominant complacency that racism was a thing of the past. We are now witnessing the renewed anti-racist...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-09-09
Collection : The Manifesto Series
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Télécharger le livre :  Paranoid Finance

There is a link between finance and paranoia, and that link may well be inescapable. At the core of financial imagination lies a notion of value – of ‘value creation’ – that is loaded with trouble. This is the trouble of a fragile metaphor: a metaphor of fecund money...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-09-09
Collection : Theory Redux
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Télécharger le livre :  The Spirit of Hope

A spectre is haunting us: fear. We are constantly confronted with apocalyptic scenarios: pandemics, world war, the climate catastrophe. Images of the end of the world and the end of human civilization are conjured up with ever greater urgency. Anxiously, we face a bleak...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-09-09

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Télécharger le livre :  Don't Go

Multiple times a day, in cities across the US and beyond, a simple yet powerful message is repeated by the well-meaning, the ill-informed, and the bigoted: “don’t go” – avoid at all costs those Black and Brown disinvested neighborhoods that have become bywords for...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-09-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Why People Do What They Do

Why do people behave in the way they do and how can we get them to change?  Drawing on a large body of empirical research, Lahlou shows that people’s behaviour is predictable and shaped by ‘installations’ combining three sets of factors: what is technically possible...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-09-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Psychocinema

Psychocinema reexamines the connection between psychoanalysis and film, arguing for a return to the universalist core of both cinema and subjectivity. It traces the history of the influence of psychoanalysis on cinema and shows how the detour into ideologies of identity...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-09-02
Collection : Theory Redux
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Télécharger le livre :  The Self in the West and East Asia

From the fraught world of geopolitics to business and the academy, it’s more vital than ever that Westerners and East Asians understand how each other thinks. As Jin Li shows in this groundbreaking work, the differences run deep. Li explores the philosophical origins of...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-08-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Russia in Four Criminals

Corruption on an immense scale and the unscrupulous use of law enforcement have left indelible marks on post-Soviet Russia. Federico Varese reveals the scars of these grim decades through an unusual lens: its criminal history. Varese weaves together the tales of four...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-08-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Revolt Against Theocracy

This book is the first in-depth account of the uprising in Iran that began on 16 September 2022, when a young woman, Mahsa Amini, was killed by the morality police. In the months that followed, protests and demonstrations erupted across Iran, representing the most...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-08-26

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Télécharger le livre :  The Working Sovereign

What role does the organisation of labour relations play in the health of a democratic society? Axel Honneth’s major new work is devoted to answering this question.  His central thesis is that participation in democratic will formation can only proceed from a...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-08-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Utilitarianism as a Way of Life

Utilitarianism – a commitment to ‘the greatest happiness for the greatest number’ – has been the target of endless opposition. According to its critics, it ignores the separateness of persons, cannot secure the protections of basic rights, demands extreme sacrifice, can...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-08-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Israel-Palestine

Since the brutal massacre perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October and the subsequent bombing and invasion of Gaza, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been thrust back to the centre of the world’s attention.  How can this deep-rooted conflict, stretching back for more than...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-08-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Why America Can't Retrench (And How it Might)

Even as growing polarization and hyper-partisanship define society and politics at home, American leaders seem to agree on one thing: US military dominance abroad is essential for national security and international stability. This is despite an upswing in popular...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-08-20

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Télécharger le livre :  The War Against the Past

A war is being waged against the Past. Whether it’s toppling statues, decolonising the curriculum or erasing terms from our vocabulary, a cultural crusade is underway designed to render the past toxic. It is condemned as enemy territory and has become the target of...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-08-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Rethinking Emancipation

Faced with growing inequalities and new forms of domination and exploitation, can the movement of emancipation take on a new life today, or has it been arrested by the powers of repression and normalization? In order to address this question, Jacques Rancière pays...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-08-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Small, Medium, Large

We live in a world of seemingly limitless consumer choice. Yet, as every shopper knows without thinking about it, many everyday goods – from beds to batteries to printer paper – are available in a finite number of “standard sizes.” What makes these sizes “standard” is...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-08-15

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