Badiou, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Schmitt and more.
Category Archives: Books
Win a Free Copy of “The Left Hemisphere” and CT Swag!
Enter to win “The Left Hemisphere,” a Karl Marx koozie and a CT bookmark by Tuesday, November 4.
10 Critical Theory Books That Came Out This Month, October
Peter Sloterdijk, Jacques Ranciere and more.
Radio Benjamin: Like NPR for Weirdos
Benjamin’s radio plays for children, left behind after he escaped Germany in 1940, survived only by chance. The typescripts left behind in Benjamin’s apartments were seized by the Gestapo and only managed to not be destroyed by bureaucratic error. They weren’t published in German until 1985.
There’s a Book about Communism for Kids Coming Soon (Hopefully)
If you’re anything like me – you probably stay up at night figuring out new ways to corrupt America’s youth.
How do I get teenagers to stop buying iPads and start fomenting class revolution, and more importantly, how do I make my friend’s toddler throw off the ideological shackles thrown upon them by Dora the Explorer everyday from 11:30 AM to noon?
5 Books That Came Out This Month, September
Heidegger, Zizek and more.
Read Me: Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale
The foreword to Maria Mies’ “Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour,” by Sylvia Federici.
8 Critical Theory Books That Came Out This Month, August
Zizek squared, Derrida, Feenberg and more!
5 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in July
Book releases related to critical theory and philosophy from July, 2014.
Free Read: Interpassivity: Fleeing from Enjoyment, and the Objective Illusion
In this excerpt from Robert Pfaller’s “On the Pleasure Principle in Culture: Illusions Without Owners,” the author discusses the functioning of interpassivity and enjoyment.