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  • Metamorphoses

    by Emanuele Coccia ...
    Translated by Robin Mackay ...
    We are all fascinated by the mystery of metamorphosis – of the caterpillar that transforms itself into a butterfly. Their bodies have almost nothing in common. They don’t share the same world: one crawls on the ground and the other flutters its wings in the air. And yet they are one and the same life.Emanuele Coccia argues that metamorphosis – the phenomenon that allows the same life to subsist in ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • #Accelerate

    The Accelerationist Reader

    Edited by Robin Mackay, Armen Avanessian ...
    An apparently contradictory yet radically urgent collection of texts tracing the genealogy of a controversial current in contemporary philosophy.Accelerationism is the name of a contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not to protest, disrupt, critique, or détourne it, but to accelerate and exacerbate its uprooting, alienating, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Fanged Noumena

    Collected Writings 1987-2007

    by Nick Land ...
    A dizzying trip through the mind(s) of the provocative and influential thinker Nick Land.During the 1990s British philosopher Nick Land's unique work, variously described as “rabid nihilism,” “mad black deleuzianism,” and “cybergothic,” developed perhaps the only rigorous and culturally-engaged escape route out of the malaise of “continental philosophy” —a route that was implacably blocked by the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Collapse, Volume 1

    Numerical Materialism

    Edited by Robin Mackay ...
    Series series Urbanomic / Collapse
    An investigation of the nature and philosophical uses of number.The first volume of Collapse investigates the nature and philosophical uses of number. The volume includes an interview with Alain Badiou on the relation between philosophy, mathematics, and science, an in-depth interview with mathematician Matthew Watkins on the strange connections between physics and the distribution of prime ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • My Secret Brexit Diary

    A Glorious Illusion

    by Michel Barnier ...
    Translated by Robin Mackay ...
    In June 2016, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. As the EU’s chief negotiator, for four years Michel Barnier had a seat at the table as the two sides thrashed out what ‘Brexit’ would really mean. The result would change Britain and Europe forever.During the 1600 days of complex and often acrimonious negotiations, Michel Barnier kept a secret diary. He recorded his ... Read more

    $31.00 USD

  • Hydroplutonic Kernow

    Edited by Robin Mackay ...
    Series series Urbanomic / Redactions
    A geophilosophical odyssey through the remains of Cornwall's industrial past offers a historical portrait of geotrauma in action.This unique document provides a pioneering case study in post-“site-specific” geophilosophy. Based on a weird field trip into Cornwall's mining heartlands with geologists, philosophers, and ecologists as guides, Hydroplutonic Kernow drills down through nature, industry, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Construction Site for Possible Worlds

    Edited by Amanda Beech, Robin Mackay, James Wiltgen ...
    Perspectives from philosophy, aesthetics, and art on how to envisage the construction site of possible worlds.Given the highly coercive and heavily surveilled dynamics of the present moment, when the tremendous pressures exerted by capital on contemporary life produces an aggressively normative “official reality,” the question of the construction of other possible worlds is crucial and perhaps ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Faceworld

    by Marion Zilio ...
    Translated by Robin Mackay ...
    We have long accepted the face as the most natural and self-evident thing, believing that in it we could read, as if on a screen, our emotions and our doubts, our anger and joy. We have decorated them, made them up, designed them, as if the face were the true calling card of our personality, the public manifestation of our inner being.Nothing could be further from the truth. Rather than a window ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • A Political Life: 1937 - 1985

    by Alain Badiou ...
    Translated by Robin Mackay ...
    In this book, the renowned philosopher and polymath Alain Badiou tells the story of the first five decades of his life, from 1937 to 1985, setting it within the political history of the twentieth century.Born in Morocco on the eve of catastrophic conflict, Badiou’s childhood and youth were marked by the Second World War and the Algerian War, experiences that would shape his political consciousness ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Cryptocommunism

    by Mark Alizart ...
    Translated by Robin Mackay ...
    Series series Theory Redux
    Cryptocurrencies are often associated with right-wing political movements, or even with the alt-right. They are the preserve of libertarians and fans of Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek. With their promotion of anonymity and individualism, there’s no doubt that they seamlessly slot into the prevailing anti-State ideology. But in this book Mark Alizart argues that the significance of cryptocurrencies ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Judeophobia

    A History

    by Shlomo Sand ...
    Translated by Robin Mackay ...
    Throughout the history of the Western world, Jews have suffered various forms of exclusion, stigmatization, and discrimination that have forced them always to be aware of their very particular situation. The Jews became a community under siege and, as Shlomo Sand argues, Judaism was shaped by the hostile gaze of Christian civilization. While the forms of hostility endured by the Jews have varied ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Israel-Palestine

    Federation or Apartheid?

    by Shlomo Sand ...
    Translated by Robin Mackay ...
    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 75 years, be brought to an end? What kind of political structure might one day enable Israelis and Palestinians to overcome the ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook