Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
10 years after founding the Everyday Sexism Project, feminist writer and activist Laura Bates connects the dots between the 'isolated incidents' of violence against women and the institutional and systemic misogyny that is so deeply ingrained in our society. Every three days in the UK, women are murdere ...Show more
Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought by Jerome (INT) Hannah; Kohn Arendt
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Penguin Classics
Arendt describes the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, glory. Through a series of eight exercises, she shows how we can redistill once more the vital essence of these concepts. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publ ...Show more
Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? - Essays by Jenny Diski
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE. The best of the indomitable Jenny Diski's essays, an injection of grade-A intellectual adrenaline (Vulture), selected by the legendary editor Mary-Kay Wilmers. Diski expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be - New Yorker. Jenny Diski ...Show more
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern by Stuart Jeffries
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A radical new history of a dangerous idea Post-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynamited modernism which had dominated the western world for most of the 20th century. Post-modernism stood for everything modernism rejected: fun, exuberance ...Show more
The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 US Election and the People Who Stopped It by Matthew Teague, Mark Bowden
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Veteran journalists Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague offer a week-by-week, state-by-state account of the effort to overturn the 2020 US presidential election. In the sixty-four days between November 3 and January 6, President Donald Trump and his allies fought to reverse the outcome of the vote. Focusing ...Show more
Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality In A Counterfeit Culture by Alice Sherwood
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'Brilliantly witty, profoundly illuminating, Alice Sherwood is a master storyteller' - Simon SchamaWe live in an age when the pursuit of authenticity - from living our 'best life' to eating artisan food - matters more and more to us, but where the forces of inauthenticity seem to be taking over. Our wor ...Show more
The Age of The Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World by Gideon Rachman
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In The Age of the Strongman, Gideon Rachman finds global coherence in the chaos of the new nationalism, leadership cults and hostility to liberal democracy. We are in a new era- authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Since 2000, self-styled strongmen have risen to power ...Show more
Culture and Politics - Class, Writing, Socialism by Raymond Williams; Philip O'Brien (Editor)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Brand new collection of the essential essays from one of the founders of cultural studies, Raymond Williams Raymond Williams was a pioneering scholar of cultural and society, and one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century. In this, a collection of difficult to find essays, some of whi ...Show more
Philosophy of Care by Boris Groys
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Retracing the philosophical discussions around care our current culture is dominated by the ideology of creativity. One is supposed to create the new and not to care about the things as they are. This ideology legitimises the domination of the "creative class" over the rest of the population that is pr ...Show more
Quantum Listening by Oliveros Pauline
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
What is the difference between hearing and listening? When do you stop hearing the sound? When does memory begin? Is sound intelligent? Does sound have consciousness? Beginning in the 1960s, musician and composer Pauline Oliveros started experimenting with bringing together meditation, political activis ...Show more
The White Paper by Satoshi Nakomoto and Jaya Kiara Brekke
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Ignota Books publishes the original white paper by Satoshi Nakamoto on its tenth anniversary, providing a guide to the blockchain technology that is transforming our lives. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto published a revolutionary white paper that described a si ...Show more
The Good Place and Philosophy by Steven A. Benko (Editor); Andrew Pavelich (Editor)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy Ser.
The Good Place is a fantasy-comedy TV show about the afterlife. Eleanor dies and finds herself in the Good Place, which she understands must be mistake, since she has been anything but good. In the surprise twist ending to Season One, it is revealed that this is really the Bad Place, but the demon who p ...Show more