Mike Davis: Prophetic Marxist Historian and Activist
The legendary Marxist thinker and activist Mike Davis explored political power and social class for decades. His sharp analysis and glittering prose criss-crossed over urban studies, political economy...
For what would have been Mike Davis's 80th birthday today, we've put the Essential Mike Davis collection on sale through the weekend.
"We must fight like the Red Army in the rubble of Stalingrad. Fight with hope, fight without hope, but fight absolutely."
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Fire in the Belly: Mike Davis (1946-2022)
βIf there was ever a time for fire in the belly and a radical politics of hope, it is now.β So declared Mike Davis (1946-2022), in the 2016 preface to City of Quartz. βIn cities like Los Angelesβ, he ...
Mike Davis was born 80 years ago today.
"Davisβs drive was always towards action, struggle, and solidarity β in brief, the politics of continual and transformative resistance, of βradical hope.β He lit the torch; itβs time for us, now, to carry it on."
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Verso is publishing some of the best books on climate/the Anthropocene/the polycrisis/whatever you want to call it out there, and this one looks like another important one to pick up.
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The Alibi of Capital
Today, extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from nowhere. The trick of conjuring this unearned wealth is, in fact, the key to understanding capitalΒismβs origins and a clue to why the catastrophe of c...
Out today - The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow by Timothy Mitchell
"A paradigm-shifting critique of the logic that underlies the modern economy." - @publisherswkly.bsky.social
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Today, March 10, is the publication day for the UK edition of my book *Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea*, by @versobooks.bsky.social . Iβll be in the UK the last two weeks of April. I'll post the dates/times of my book talks soon.
www.versobooks.com/products/343...
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Post-apocalyptic Time
I.Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β βHow did we end up in this hell?β is the question every Iranian I know asks. As I write these words, on the fifth day of the U.S.βIsrael invasion of Iran, I am no longer certainβ¦
"The lived reality of sanctions is one of suspension and erasureβwhere past achievements fade from global recognition and future possibilities are systematically obstructed."
Shahram Khosravi on Iranian life under constant rupture.
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This Week in Hell! Capitalism Steals Our Future Plus 'Guns, Money and Opium' | This Is Hell!
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Tues., on publication day, Timothy Mitchell discusses "The Alibi of Capital,"(@versobooks.bsky.social) and our future.
Weds., @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on βGuns, Money and Opiumβ at @lrb.co.uk, reviewing Seth Harp's "Fort Bragg Cartel.".
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10AM CDT at thisishell.com
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The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Featuring Saba Sams, Jazmine Ulloa, Jordy Rosenberg, and more
Saba Samsβ Gunk, Vigdis Hjorthβs Repetition, and Terry Tempest Williamsβ The Glorians all number among the best reviewed books of the week.
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there is a macroeconomic reason novels are not written in the third person anymore and it is not good
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
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Verso celebrates International Women's Day
For over a century International Women's Day has been a site of workersβ strikes and collective action.
Taking International Women's Day back to its radical roots, we bring you books that will broaden your feminist horizons with reading that is anticapitalist, abolitionist, antiracist, as well as full of rage and defiance.
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/5...
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International Women's Day is a day of protest and collective action.
'Woman's Day' was first recognized in the US in 1910 following the 13 week long strike of 20,000 female garment workers.
Four years later on this day in Russia, bread riots led by women fed directly into the 1917 revolution.
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Thank you to Verso for letting me write a 50,000 word little book about the American Revolution. It's like an antidote to those Dad-history-book doorstops! www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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Ed Meek highly recommends Timothy Mitchell's "The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow " @versobooks.bsky.social. Capitalism's strategy: steal the future and conceal the theft.
artsfuse.org/325311/book-...
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What are you reading this weekend?
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Get βem while theyβre hot! (And before theyβre banned.)
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