A look at the ways in which, in Western societies, binaries organize our thinking and our lives, and at ways we can navigate and perhaps at moments move beyond them. Clever and very accessible, though not without its limitations. I’ve read two books by one of the authors (Barker) before, one focused on relationships and …
Scholarly. Postcolonial, feminist, invested in dismantling our current oppressive formation of “the human.” In particular, its focus is “mastery,” which it understands as a sort of shared logic that links and informs many different scales of phenomena, contexts, practices, and experiences, including those that are easily legible as instances of oppression and domination but lots …
Written to be used while introducing undergraduate students to social theory. Unlike many books used in such contexts, it is about the furthest thing you could imagine from a compendium of chapters organized around “theory X says Y” and “theory A says B.” Instead, it focuses more on introducing the reader to theoretical thinking as …
A short, accessible, measured, and methodical book that lays out what the author describes as a “reconstructed historical materialism” – that is, a way of understanding the world and of orienting our struggles to change it that fuses a critical marxist approach to class relations with the many other axes of oppression with which they …
A short book by an English academic that explores “the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it” (2). In order to build movements that can once again threaten to transform capitalism, we must …