europe and its shadows

Europe and Its ShadowsColoniality after EmpireHamid Dabashi

KeynoteEurope as we’ve known it is a dying myth, but colonial relations live on.

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PB 9780745338408 £17.99HB 9780745338415 £75.00

October 2019Demy224 ppBlack and White Images

National Liberation & Independence, Post Colonialism, European HistoryHBTR, HBJDNHTR, NHD, 1QBD

Key Features & Highlights1. A timely intervention from a major scholar of postcolonialism2. Moves beyond binaries such as ‘ the West and the Rest’ to argue that we

have entered a new phase of coloniality

DescriptionEurope has long been imagined as the centre of the universe, although its precise geographical, cultural and social terrains have always been amorphous. Exploring the fear and fascination associated with the continent as an allegory, Hamid Dabashi considers Europe to be a historically formed barricade against the world.

Frantz Fanon’s assessment that ‘Europe is literally the creation of the Third World’ is still true today but in more than one sense; for the colonial has always been embedded in the capital, and the capital within the colonial. As the condition of coloniality shifts, so have the dividing lines between coloniser and colonised. This shift calls for a reappraisal of our understanding of nationalism, xenophobia and sectarianism as dangerous indices of the emerging worlds.

As far-right populists captivate minds across Europe and Brexit upsets the balance of power in the European Union, this book, from a major scholar of postcolonial thought, is a timely and transformative intervention.

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Author BiographyHamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. He is a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, as well as a founding member of the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of more than 20 books including Europe and Its Shadows (Pluto, 2019), Can Non-Europeans Think? (Zed, 2015) and Brown Skin, White Masks (Pluto, 2011).

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Table of ContentsPreface1. Whence and Wherefore Europe2. Europe and its Shadows3. The Postcolonial Paradox4. I am a Sushi5. The Unbearable Lightness of Being Zizek6. Can Non-Europeans Paint?7. Is Peace Possible?


Postcolonial France

Paul A. Silverstein

9780745337746£18.99May 2018

Brown Skin, White Masks

Hamid Dabashi

9780745328737£21.99January 2011

Racism and Anti-Racism in Europe

Lentin

9780745322209£26.99June 2004

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Art and PostcapitalismAesthetic Labour, Automation and

Value Production

Dave Beech

KeynoteWhat can art tell us about a postcapitalist future?


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PB 9780745339245 £19.99HB 9780745339252 £75.00

October 2019Demy 176pp4 B+W Figures

Theory of Art, History of Ideas, Marxism & CommunismABA, JFCX, JPFCABA, JBCC9, JPFC

Key Features & Highlights1. An essential guide to the interrelationship of art, labour and

postcapitalism 2. Charts the historical formation of postcapitalist and anti-workerist

thought

Description

Artistic labour was exemplary for Utopian Socialist theories of ‘attractive labour’ and Marxist theories of ‘nonalienated labour’, but the rise of the anti-work movement and current theories of ‘fully automated luxury communism’ have seen art topple from its privileged place within the left’s political imaginary, as the artist has been reconceived as a prototype of the precarious 24/7 worker.

Art and Postcapitalism argues that art remains essential for thinking about the intersection of labour, capitalism and postcapitalism not insofar as it merges work and pleasure but as an example of noncapitalist production. Reassessing the contemporary politics of work by revisiting debates about art, technology and in the nineteenth and twentieth century, Dave Beech challenges the aesthetics of labour in John Ruskin, William Morris and Oscar Wilde. With a value theory of the supersession of capitalism, he sheds light on anti-work theory by Silvia Federici, Andre Gorz, Kathi Weeks and Maurizio Lazzarato, as well as the technological terrain of Srnicek and Williams and Paul Mason.

Formulating a critique of contemporary postcapitalism, and developing a new understanding of art and labour, this book is essential for activists, scholars and anyone interested in the real and imagined escape routes from capitalism.


Author Biography

Dave Beech is Professor of Art at Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg. He is the author of Art and Value: Art’s Economic Exceptionalism in Classical, Neoclassical and Marxist Economics (Brill 2015) which was shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize. He co-authored The Philistine Controversy (Verso, 2002) and Art and Text (Blackdog Books, 2011). He is a founding co-editor of the journal Art and the Public Sphere.


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Table of ContentsIntroduction: Postcapitalism, Critique and Art1. What is Postcapitalism?2. Art’s Hostility to Capitalism3. Artists and the Politics of Work4. Avant-Gardism and the Meanings of Automation5. Laziness and the Technologies of RestConclusion: Gratuity, Digitalisation and Value


Art and Production

Boris Arvatov

9780745399454£19.99August 2017

Delirium and Resistance

Gregory Sholette

9780745336848£19.99April 2017

Marxism and the History of Art

Andrew Hemingway

9780745323299£26.99July 2006

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Martin MonathA Jewish Resistance Fighter Amongst Nazi

SoldiersNathaniel Flakin

KeynoteThe fascinating story of a young Jewish socialist who risked everything to foment revolution amongst German soldiers in occupied France.

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PB 9780745339955 £14.99HB 9780745339962 £75.00

October 2019Revolutionary Lives‘B’ Format 176pp

History, Political Oppression & Persecution, Second World WarJPVR, JPWQ, HBWQJPVR, NHWR7

Key Features & Highlights1. A fascinating and intriguing biography of a young Jewish socialist and

his revolutionary struggle against the Nazis2. Drawing on extensive archival research, including letters, testimonies

and unpublished documents

DescriptionA dramatisation of Martin Monath’s short life (1913-1944) would need little artistic embellishment; his identity shrouded in mystery, and executed by the Gestapo - twice - the historical record reads like a detective novel.

Pieced together for the first time by Wladek Flakin, this biography tells the story of the Jewish socialist and editor of Arbeiter und Soldat (‘Worker and Soldier’), and his efforts to turn German rank-and-file soldiers against their Nazi officers in occupied France. Born in Berlin in 1913, Martin Monath was a child of war and revolution. In the 1930s he became a leader of the socialist Zionist youth organisation Hashomer Hatzair in Germany. Fleeing from Berlin to Brussels in 1939, he joined the underground Trotskyist party led by Abraham Leon, and soon became a leading member of the Fourth International in Europe. His relocation to Paris in 1943 saw the birth of Arbeiter und Soldat and his work organising illegal cells of German soldiers for a revolutionary struggle against the Nazis.

Drawing on extensive archival research, Flakin uses letters, testimonies and unpublished documents to bring Monath’s story to life - weaving a tale rich with conviction and betrayal, ideology and espionage.


Author BiographyNathaniel Flakin is a freelance journalist and historian based in New York and Berlin. He is Editor of the socialist news sites Klasse Gegen Klasse and Left Voice.

Plans for Promotion1. Reviews expected in the TLS and the New Statesman2. Extracts planned in History Today and BBC History Magazine3. Author interview on BBC World Service History Hour

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Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. A Jewish Boy from Berlin2. From Berlin to Brussels3. Underground4. The End5. Conclusion6. Worker and SoldierIndex


John MacleanHero of Red Clydeside

Henry Bell

9780745338385£14.99Oct 2018

William Godwin

Richard Gough Thomas

9780745338354£16.99Feb 2019

Toussaint Loverture

Charles Forsdick and Christian Hogsberg

9780745335148£14.99May 2017

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33 Lessons on CapitalReading Marx PoliticallyHarry Cleaver

KeynoteWhat is the relevance of Marx’s Capital to contemporary political struggles?


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PB 9780745339979 £24.99HB 9780745339986 £75.00

October 2019Royal512 pp17 Figures

Political Economy, Labour Economics, Marxism & CommunismKCP, KCF, JPFCKCP, KCF, JPFC

Key Features & Highlights1. Re-examines Marx’s relevance to contemporary political conflicts as a

major extension of Cleaver’s classic text, Reading Capital Politically (AK Press; 2nd ed, 2000)

2. Applies workerist and social reproduction theory to Karl Marx’s Capital Volume I, analysing Marx’s work chapter by chapter.

3. Cleaver is a highly regarded scholar-activist, and a long-time expert in the field.

DescriptionThis book provides an up-to-date reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Volume I, emphasising the relevance of Marx’s analysis to everyday twenty-first century struggles.

Harry Cleaver’s treatise outlines and critiques Marx’s analysis chapter by chapter. His unique interpretation of Marx’s labour theory of value reveals how every theoretical category of capital designates aspects of class struggle in ways that help us resist and escape it. At the same time, while rooted within the tradition of workerism, he understands the working class to include not only the industrial proletariat but also unwaged peasants, housewives, children and students.

A challenge to scholars and an invaluable resource for students and activists today.


Author BiographyHarry Cleaver is Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Reading Capital Politically (AK Press; 2nd ed, 2000) and Rupturing the Dialectic (AK Press; 2017). He is currently active in the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico.


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Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Part Eight (Primitive Accumulation, Chapters 26-33)2. Part One (Commodities and Money, Chapters 1-3)3. Part Two (Money into Capital, Chapters 4-6)4. Part Three (Absolute Surplus Value, Chapters 7-11)5. Part Four (Relative Surplus Value, Chapters 12-15)6. Part Five (Absolute and Relative Surplus Value, Chapters 16-18)7. Part Six (Wages, Chapters 19-22)8. Part Seven (Accumulation, Chapters 23-25)


Reading ‘Capital’ Today

Ingo Schmidt and Carlo Fanelli

9780745399713£19.99April 2017

Storming Heaven

Steve Wright

9780745399904£18.99July 2017

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Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital CapitalismChristian Fuchs

KeynoteIn order to fight capitalism in the digital age, we must understand Marx!

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PB 9780745339993 £19.99HB 9780745340005 £75.00

October 2019Demy144 pp

Digital Lifestyle, Marxism and Communism, Political EconomyUD, JPFC, KCPKCVM, JPFC, KCP

Key Features & Highlights1. Reasserts the importance of a Marxist framework for understanding

digital capitalism2. Looks at Marx’s key works, including Capital, The Communist Manifesto

and The Grundrisse3. Written by a leader in the field of social media and digital sociology

DescriptionThe ‘end of history’ has not taken place. Ideological and economic crisis and the status quo of neoliberal capitalism since 2008 demand a renewed engagement with Marx. If we are to effectively resist capitalism we must truly understand the new ways that communication technologies, media representation and digitalisation have come to define contemporary capitalism. There is an urgent need for critical, Marxian-inspired knowledge as a foundation for changing the world and the way we communicate, from digital capitalism towards communicative socialism and digital communism.

Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism provides exactly this. Delving into Marx’s most influential works, such as Capital, The Grundrisse, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, The German Ideology and The Communist Manifesto, Christian Fuchs draws out Marx’s concepts of machinery, technology, communication and ideology, all of which anticipate major themes of the digital age.

A concise and coherent work of Marxist media and communication theory, the book ultimately demonstrates the relevance of Marx to an age of digital and communicative capitalism.


Author BiographyChristian Fuchs is a leading critical theorist of communication and society. He is a Professor at the University of Westminster School of Media and Communications. Fuchs is author of Digital Demagogue (Pluto 2018) and Social Media: A Critical Introduction (Sage, 2017). He is co-editor of the open access journal tripleC.


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Table of ContentsIntroduction: Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism1. Rereading Marx’s ‘Capital’ in the Information Age2. Rereading Marx as Critical Sociologist of Technology3. Rereading Marx as Critical Theorist of Communication4. Rereading Marx in Digital Capitalism: The Case of Industry 4.0 & the Industrial Internet as the Digital German Ideology5. Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism: Reflections on Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Book ‘Assembly’Conclusion


Digital Demagogue

Christian Fuchs

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The Message is Murder

Jonathan Beller

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Cyber-Proletariat

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Cedric J. RobinsonOn Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism,

and Cultures of Resistance

Cedric J. Robinson, edited by H. L. T. Quan

KeynoteA collection of essays by the influential founder of the Black Radical Tradition

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PB 9780745340036 £24.99HB 9780745340029 £75.00

October 2019Black CritiqueRoyal352 pp

Black & Asian Studies, Political Theory, SociologyJPFC, JFSL3, JPFCJBSL1, JPA,

Key Features & Highlights1. A collection of essays from a renowned scholar of Black Radicalism and

author of the era-defining Black Marxism (UNC Press; 2nd Ed, 2005)2. Includes previously unpublished materials, alongside an introduction

by H. L. T. Quan and a foreword by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Description

Cedric J. Robinson is regarded as a legendary theorist of Black Studies and a pioneer in the study of the Black Radical Tradition. His works are essential texts, deconstructing Racial Capitalism and inspiring insurgent movements from Ferguson to the West Bank.

For the first time, Robinson’s essays are brought together, spanning over four decades and reflective of his diverse interests in the interconnections between culture and politics, radical social theory and classic and modern political philosophy. Themes explored include Africa and Black Internationalism, world politics, race and US foreign policy, representations of blackness in popular culture, and reflections on popular resistance to racial capitalism, white supremacy and more.

With an introduction by H. L. T. Quan and a foreword by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, this collection, which includes previously unpublished materials, brings the work of a giant in Black radical thought


Author Biography

Cedric Robinson was a Professor of Black Studies and Political Theory at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was also the Director of the Center for Black Studies Research. He was the author of several books including Black Marxism (UNC Press; 2nd Ed, 2005).

H. L. T. Quan is a political theorist and an award winning filmmaker. Currently an Associate Professor of Justice Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. She is the author of Growth Against Democracy (Lexington Books, 2012).


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Table of ContentsForeword by Ruth Wilson GilmoreIntroduction by H. L. T. QuanPART I: On Africa and Black Internationalism1. Notes Toward a ‘Native Theory of History’2. In Search of a Pan-African Commonwealth 3. The Black Detective and American Memory Part II: On Bourgeois Historiography4. ‘The First Attack is an Attack on Culture’5. Oliver Cromwell Cox and the Historiography of the West 6. Fascism and the Intersections of Capitalism, Racialism, and Historical Consciousness 7. Ota Benga Through Geronimo’s Eyes: Tales of Science and Multiculturalism 8. Slavery, and the Platonic Origins of Anti-Democracy Part III: On World Politics and US Foreign Policy9. Fascism and the Response by Black Radical Theorists10. Africa: In Hock to History and the Banks 11. The Comedy of Terror 12. Ralph Bunche and the American DilemmaPart IV: On Reality and its (Mis)Representations13. White Signs in Black Times: The Politics of Representation in Dominant Texts 14. The American Press and the Repairing of the Philippines 15. On the Los Angeles Times, Crack Cocaine, and the Ramparts Division Scandal 16. Micheaux Lynches the Mammy 17. Blaxploitation and the Misrepresentation of Liberation 18. The Mulatta on Film: From Hollywood to the Mexican Revolution19. Ventriloquizing Blackness: Eugene O’Neill and Irish-American Racial Performance PART V: On Resistance and Redemption20. Malcolm Little as a Charismatic Leader 21. The Appropriation of Fanon 22. Amilcar Cabral and the Dialectic of Portuguese Colonialism 23. Race, Capitalism and the Anti-democracy 24. David Walker and the Precepts of Black Studies 25. The Killing in Ferguson 26. On The Truth and Reconciliation Commission


The Pleasures of Exile

George Lamming

9780745323442£24.99July 2007

Moving Against the System

David Austen

9780745338651 £19.99September 2018

An Anthropology of Marxism

Cedric J Robinson

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