PHILOSOPHY (General) -> Social

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.

Why We Love Sociopaths

Adam Kotsko

Apr 2012

Argues that our fascination with cold and ruthless television characters reflects a broken social contract.

Expanding World, The

Michael Cronin

Feb 2012

The world gets bigger not smaller all the time and this is very good news for humanity.

Exposing Phallacy

Kate Gould

Aug 2012

A sexual climate consumed by display ought to be ideal for flashers, yet their actions are taboo and illegal.

Meat Market

Laurie Penny

Apr 2011

A feminist dissection of women's bodies as the fleshy fulcrum of capitalist cannibalism, whereby women are both consumers and consumed.

Classless

Carl Neville

Oct 2010

Why 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

Adam Kotsko

Nov 2010

Argues that the awkwardness of our age is a key to understanding human experience.

Non-Stop Inertia

Ivor Southwood

Mar 2011

A 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 2012

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

One Dimensional Woman

Nina Power

Nov 2009

Exposes the dark heart of contemporary cultural life by examining pornography, consumer capitalism and the ideology of women's work.

Resilience & Melancholy

Robin James

Feb 2015

Neoliberalism co-opts noisy riots like feminism and hardcore music--can melancholic siren songs fight back?

Small Towns, Austere Times

Steve Hanson

Oct 2014

This book explores small town austere Britain.

How To Like Everything

Paul Shepheard

Jul 2013

There is no absolute truth but there is absolutely everything

Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-porn Addicts

Leigh Phillips

Oct 2015

Modernity is not the cause of our ecological woes. Only through a deepening of our modernity can we save the planet.

Why are Animals Funny?

EDA Collective

Mar 2014

Analysing the signs of everyday life.

Capitalised Education

David R. Cole

Jun 2014

Understanding how Kate Middleton can be conceived in the current geopolitical situation

Fear of Music

David Stubbs

Apr 2009

An examination of why modern art can be easier to appreciate than modern music.

Twerking to Turking

EDA Collective

May 2015

Analysing 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.

Media Against Democracy, The

Thomas Field

Apr 2015

A radical critique of existing institutions.

Against Capitalist Education

Nadim Bakhshov

Dec 2015

The birth of a revolutionary art of world-creation.

Lazarus in the Multiple

Camaren Peter

Jan 2016

Surviving the anthropocene; the era of complexity!

Pac-Man Principle, The

Alex Wade

Jul 2018

A blast from the past; direction to the future? Pac-Man is our guide through the maze of contemporary capitalism.

Fucking Law

Victoria Brooks

Jun 2019

An urgent call for everyone to find inventive ways to question the ethics of sexuality.