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Politics of the Many draws inspiration from Percy Bysshe Shelley's
celebrated call to arms: 'Ye are many - they are few!' This idea of
the Many, as a general form of emancipatory subjectivity that
cannot be erased for the sake of the One, is the philosophical and
political assumption shared by contributors to this book. They
raise questions of collective agency, and its crisis in
contemporary capitalism, via new engagements with Marxist
philosophy, psychoanalysis, theories of social reproduction and
value-form, and post-colonial critiques, and drawing on activist
thought and strategies. This book interrogates both established and
emergent formations of the Many (the people, classes, publics,
crowds, masses, multitudes), tracing their genealogies, their
recent failures and victories, and their potentials to change the
world. The book proposes and explores an intense and provoking
series of new or reinvented concepts, figures, and theoretical
constellations, including dividuality, the centaur, unintentional
vanguard, insomnia at work, always-on capitalism, multitude (from
its 'voiding' to a '(non)emergence'), crowds, necropolitics, and
the link between political subjectivity and value-form. The
contributors to Politics of the Many are both acclaimed and
emergent thinkers including Carina Brand, Rebecca Carson, Luhuna
Carvalho, Lorenzo Chiesa, Jodi Dean, Dario Gentili, Benjamin
Halligan, Marc James Leger, Paul Mazzocchi, Alexei Penzin, Stefano
Pippa, Gerald Raunig, and Stevphen Shukaitis.
Born in 1917 in Bizana in the Eastern Cape, Oliver Reginald Tambo became Nelson Mandela's legal partner and a prominent member of the ANC's Youth League.
Following the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, Tambo left South Africa to set up the ANC's international mission. As President of the ANC in exile, he led the fight against apartheid on both the diplomatic and military fronts. He died in 1993 on the eve of liberation. Tambo had a profound influence on the ANC during the difficult years of uncertainty, loneliness and homesickness in exile. His simplicity, his nurturing style, his genuine respect for all people seemed to bring out the best in them.
This is the story of one of South Africa's great sons - 'the most loved leader', the Moses who led his people to the promised land but did not live to enter it.
This book investigates the interplay between media, politics,
religion, and culture in shaping Arabs' quest for more stable and
democratic governance models in the aftermath of the "Arab Spring"
uprisings. It focuses on online mediated public debates,
specifically user comments on online Arab news sites, and their
potential to re-engage citizens in politics. Contributors
systematically explore and critique these online communities and
spaces in the context of the Arab uprisings, with case studies,
largely centered on Egypt, covering micro-bloggers, Islamic
discourse online, Libyan nationalism on Facebook, and a
computational assessment of online engagement, among other topics.
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Building Bridges
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Kendra Weddle, Jann Aldredge-Clanton
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'As educational as it is enlightening ... Read this' SARA PASCOE
'Passionately argued, meticulously researched and angry as hell ...
leads the reader beyond the strip club and on to the battlefield
where sex workers fight for their rights' KATE LISTER 'Deeply
impressive ... An important book, sorely needed' CAROL LEIGH 'An
unflinching takedown of inadequate working conditions ... A must
read' JUNO MAC, co-author of Revolting Prostitutes Forget
everything you think you know about strippers In this powerful
book, Stacey Clare, a stripper with over a decade of experience,
takes a detailed look at the sex industry - the reality of the work
as well as the history of licensing and regulation, feminist themes
surrounding sex work, and stigma. Bringing her personal knowledge
of the industry to bear, she offers an unapologetic critique and
searing indictment of exploitation, and raises the rights of sex
workers to the top of the agenda. The Ethical Stripper rejects
notions of victimhood, challenges stigma and shame, and unpacks
decades of confusion and contradictions. It's about the sex-work
community's fight for safety and self-determination, and it
challenges you to think twice about every newspaper article,
documentary and film you have seen about stripping and sex work.
'I loved this book... An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life
and times' Margaret Atwood 'Expansive and thought-provoking'
Independent Outside my work the thing I care most about is
gardening - George Orwell Inspired by her encounter with the
surviving roses that Orwell is said to have planted in his cottage
in Hertfordshire, Rebecca Solnit explores how his involvement with
plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as
a writer and antifascist, and the intertwined politics of nature
and power. Following his journey from the coal mines of England to
taking up arms in the Spanish Civil War; from his prescient
critique of Stalin to his analysis of the relationship between lies
and authoritarianism, Solnit finds a more hopeful Orwell, whose
love of nature pulses through his work and actions. And in her
dialogue with the author, she makes fascinating forays into
colonial legacies in the flower garden, discovers photographer Tina
Modotti's roses, reveals Stalin's obsession with growing lemons in
impossibly cold conditions, and exposes the brutal rose industry in
Colombia. A fresh reading of a towering figure of the 20th century
which finds solace and solutions for the political and
environmental challenges we face today, Orwell's Roses is a
remarkable reflection on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of
resistance. 'Luminous...It is efflorescent, a study that seeds and
blooms, propagates thoughts, and tends to historical associations'
New Statesman 'A genuinely extraordinary mind, whose curiosity,
intelligence and willingness to learn seem unbounded' Irish Times
Can you imagine an all powerful group, that knows no national
boundaries, above the laws of all countries, one that controls
every aspect of politics, religion, commerce and industry, banking,
insurance, mining, the drug trade, the petroleum industry, a group
answerable to no one but its members? That there is such a body,
called 'the committee of 300' is graphically told in this book.
Once you have read the applying truths contained in this book,
understanding past and present political, economic, social and
religious events will no longer be a problem. This powerful account
of the forces ranged against the US, and indeed the entire free
world, cannot be ignored.
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