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Topic Philosophy/Critical Theory : 234 results | page 1 of 24 pages
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Rereading Read: New Views on Herbert Read - Michael Paraskos (Editor) and Herbert Read (Subject)
From poverty and a Yorkshire orphanage, Herbert Read went on to become the most significant cultural critic to come out of England in the twentieth century.

Between 1940 and 1960 he was the most well-respected writer on modernist art in the English language, effectively defining the movement during that period. He was a major art theorist and writer on literature, and a key figure in anarchist politic...
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Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History - Andrej Grubacic, Denis O'Hearn (Introduction by), and Staughton Lynd
Wobblies and Zapatistas offers the reader an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Andrej Grubacic is an anarchist from the Balkans. Staughton Lynd is a lifelong pacifist, influenced by Marxism. They meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that "my country ...
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Behold Metatron, the Recording Angel - Sol Yurick
Behold Metatron is heavy stuff, relentlessly visionary, the material problem seen through a lens of advanced capitalism and electronic philosophy. Picture Wired Magazine crossed with Fortune Magazine but edited by William Blake. Metaphysics, economics, art and intellect of an high order, coalescing into an interpretation of an emerging electronic universe. Forget Al Gore, perhaps Mr. Yurick conceptual...
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The Road Ahead And the Dialectics of Change - Ed Mead (Introduction by) and C Landrum
A California prisoner analyzes the continuing deterioration in prison conditions and the possibilities of resistance, using the tools of dialectical materialism.
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Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid - Frank Wilderson, III
In 1995, a South African journalist informed Frank Wilderson, one of only two American members of the African National Congress (ANC), that President Nelson Mandela considered him a "threat to national security." Wilderson was asked to comment. Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid is that "comment." It is also his response to a question posed five years later by a student in a California univer...
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Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex - CR-10 Publications Collective (Editor)
Today, over seven million people live under the control of U.S. jail, prison, probation, or parole systems—the vast majority of them people of color and young people. Between 2000 and 2007, Congress added 454 new offences to the Federal criminal code. Policing at all levels is increasingly militarized and demands more and more resources. The crisis shows no signs of slowing.
For a decade, Critical R...
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Determinations: Essays on Theory, Narrative, and Nation in the Americas
Determinations employs a Marxist approach to examine postcolonial theory and provides critical readings of a range of postcolonial narratives, mainly Latin American. It argues that the national question remains an unresolved problem in this field, particularly in light of the confusions engendered by concepts of globalization, and that the cultural link between the ideas of nation and narrative remain...
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The World We Wish to See: Revolutionary Objectives in the Twenty-First Century - Samir Amin
The World We Wish to See presents a sweeping view of twentieth-century political history and a stirring appeal to take political organization seriously. Amin offers provocative analysis of contemporary resistance to neoliberalism, while boldly calling for a new global movement, "an internationalism of peoples," to challenge the current order and fashion a better world.

Throughout the last century, g...
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Toward Secession: 156 More Political Essays From A Fairly Orthodox Anarchist-Libertarian - Richard Kostelanetz
A new collection of critical essays from veteran artist, author, and critic Richard Kostelanetz. Kostelanetz was born in New York City in 1940 and his work has appeared in The Hudson Review, The New York Times, and Liberty magazine.


"Kosti and I disagree about aspects of many things—technology, libertarianism, rural life—and we also closely agree about many things...
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Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics - Samuel R. Delany
For nearly three decades, Samuel R. Delany's science fiction has transported millions of readers to the fringes of time, technology, and outer space. Now Delany surveys the realms of his own experience as writer, critic, theorist, and gay black man in this collection of written interviews, a type of guided essay.

Because the written interview avoids the "mutual presence positioned at the semantic core...
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