PHILOSOPHY (General) -> Social

Pac-Man Principle, The
A User's Guide to Capitalism
Alex Wade
Jul 2018A blast from the past; direction to the future? Pac-Man is our guide through the maze of contemporary capitalism.

Fear of Music
Why People Get Rothko But Don't Get Stockhausen
David Stubbs
Apr 2009An examination of why modern art can be easier to appreciate than modern music.

One Dimensional Woman
Nina Power
Nov 2009Exposes the dark heart of contemporary cultural life by examining pornography, consumer capitalism and the ideology of women's work.

Classless
Recent Essays on British Film
Carl Neville
Oct 2010Why nobody who knows Britain recognises the Britain represented in British films.A general-interest, polemical book on contemporary British Cinema that focuses heavily on cult movies like "Withnail and I" and "Sexy Beast" both of which have committed audi

Awkwardness
An Essay
Adam Kotsko
Nov 2010Argues that the awkwardness of our age is a key to understanding human experience.

Non-Stop Inertia
Ivor Southwood
Mar 2011A theoretical investigation into the culture of precarious work, digital consumption and personal flexibility, calling for a counter-discourse of resistance.

Slime Dynamics
Ben Woodard
Sep 2012Through speculative philosophy and lurid cultural objects, Slime Dynamics explores the muck of life as a darkly vitalistic substance.

Meat Market
Female flesh under capitalism
Laurie Penny
Apr 2011A feminist dissection of women's bodies as the fleshy fulcrum of capitalist cannibalism, whereby women are both consumers and consumed.

Exposing Phallacy
An Exploration of Flashing in a Contemporary Context
Kate Gould
Aug 2012A sexual climate consumed by display ought to be ideal for flashers, yet their actions are taboo and illegal.

Expanding World, The
Towards a Politics of Microspection
Michael Cronin
Feb 2012The world gets bigger not smaller all the time and this is very good news for humanity.

Why We Love Sociopaths
A Guide To Late Capitalist Television
Adam Kotsko
Apr 2012Argues that our fascination with cold and ruthless television characters reflects a broken social contract.

Dead Man Working
Carl Cederstrom
Peter Fleming
May 2012
An analysis of the dead man working and the way in which capital is now colonizing life itself.

Capitalised Education
An immanent materialist account of Kate Middleton
David R. Cole
Jun 2014Understanding how Kate Middleton can be conceived in the current geopolitical situation

How To Like Everything
A Utopia
Paul Shepheard
Jul 2013There is no absolute truth but there is absolutely everything

Small Towns, Austere Times
The Dialectics of Deracinated Localism
Steve Hanson
Oct 2014This book explores small town austere Britain.

Why are Animals Funny?
Everyday Analysis - Volume 1
EDA Collective
Mar 2014Analysing the signs of everyday life.

Resilience & Melancholy
pop music, feminism, neoliberalism
Robin James
Feb 2015Neoliberalism co-opts noisy riots like feminism and hardcore music--can melancholic siren songs fight back?

Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-porn Addicts
A defence of growth, progress, industry and stuff
Leigh Phillips
Oct 2015Modernity is not the cause of our ecological woes. Only through a deepening of our modernity can we save the planet.

Twerking to Turking
Everyday Analysis - Volume 2
EDA Collective
May 2015Analysing the signs of everyday life in an ABC of modern phenomena from Advertising to Language, Sport to Education, Film and TV to Work and Play, and Politics to Comic Universes.

Lazarus in the Multiple
Awakening to the Era of Complexity
Camaren Peter
Jan 2016Surviving the anthropocene; the era of complexity!

Against Capitalist Education
What is Education for?
Nadim Bakhshov
Dec 2015The birth of a revolutionary art of world-creation.
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