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Slavoj Žižek takes New York
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The Verso Book of Dissent
“The constant struggle to create a better world”—Noam Chomsky
Authors
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Slavoj Žižek
Cooper Union event for Living in the End Times
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Gareth Peirce
UK events to launch Dispatches from the Dark Side
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André Schiffrin
“The book the world needs at this time”—Robert W. McChesney
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Tariq Ali
Interviewed on Democracy Now by Amy Goodman.
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Shlomo Sand
“Extravagantly denounced and praised”—New York Times
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Owen Hatherley
“Informed, opinionated and acerbic”—Sunday Times
Books
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Living in the End Times
by Slavoj Žižek
Zizek analyzes the end of the world at the hands of the “four riders of the apocalypse.”
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The Obama Syndrome
by Tariq Ali
A merciless dissection of Obama’s overseas escalation and domestic retreat.
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Words and Money
A publishing luminary analyzes the crisis of the media and considers the alternatives.
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A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
A darkly humorous architectural guide to the decrepit new Britain that neoliberalism built.
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The Revolutions of 1848
by Karl Marx
Volume 1 of Marx’s political writings, including The Communist Manifesto.
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The New Old World
“Insightful, combative and invigorating”—Nation
Events
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November 08, 2010
New York , NY
Slavoj Žižek on Living in the End Times
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Gilbert Achcar, author of The Arabs and the Holocaust now on tour in the US
This week Gilbert Achcar kicks off his US tour to launch The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives—published by Metropolitan here in the US and by Saqi Books in the UK. Reviewing the book for the Guardian, Tariq Ali declared The Arabs and the Holocaust "the best book on the subject so far" ...
S'bu Zikode, who features in The Verso Book of Dissent, to speak in New York next week
On Tuesday November 16, CUNY's Center for Place, Culture and Politics will host An Evening with S'bu Zikode: Lessons From the Largest Organization of the Militant Poor in Post-Apartheid South Africa.
Zikode is the elected President of the Abahlali baseMjondolo Shackdwellers Movement of South Africa, a position he has held since 2005. Zikode's "We Are The Third Force" is included in The Verso Book of Dissent and begins:
The shack dwellers' movement that has given hope to thousands of people in Durban is always being accused of being part of the Third Force ... What is it and who is part of the Third Force? Well, I am Third Force myself. The Third Force is all the pain and the suffering that the poor are subjected to every second in our lives ...
Dreamers of a New Day picked up by The Times of Shreveport, Louisiana
In The Times of Shreveport's "At the Library" section, Hanna Thi Hoang writes, not entirely originally, of Sheila Rowbotham's Dreamers of A New Day:
Amid the growth of global trade, mass production and immigration that dominated the period from the 1880s to the onset of the First World War, an awakening was taking place among American and British women. Across the Atlantic and across political boundaries, female pioneers shared a sense that social change was possible, and acted upon that belief. This narrative explores the period when women overturned social norms to define themselves as individuals.
Very successful in hardback, Dreamers of a New Day will be released in paperback in July 2011.
Terry Eagleton in New York to speak on “The New Atheism and the War on Terror”
This Wednesday November 10, Terry Eagleton will speak on "The New Atheism and the War on Terror" at New York's Heyman Center for the Humanities. What to read ahead of the talk? The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue, a comprehensive volume of interviews covering both his life and the development of his thought and politics should certainly be top of the list ...