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  • Revenge Capitalism

    The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts

    by Max Haiven ...
    Capitalism is in a profound state of crisis. Beyond the mere dispassionate cruelty of 'ordinary' structural violence, it appears today as a global system bent on reckless economic revenge; its expression found in mass incarceration, climate chaos, unpayable debt, pharmaceutical violence and the relentless degradation of common life.In Revenge Capitalism, Max Haiven argues that this economic ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Palm Oil

    The Grease of Empire

    by Max Haiven ...
    Series series Vagabonds
    It’s in our food, our cosmetics, our fuel and our bodies. Palm oil, found in half of supermarket products, has shaped our world. Max Haiven uncovers how the gears of capitalism are literally and metaphorically lubricated by this ubiquitous elixir.From its origins in West Africa to today’s Southeast Asian palm oil superpowers, Haiven’s sweeping, experimental narrative takes us on a global journey ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revenge Capitalism

    The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts

    by Max Haiven ...
    Capitalism is in a profound state of crisis. Beyond the mere dispassionate cruelty of 'ordinary' structural violence, it appears today as a global system bent on reckless economic revenge; its expression found in mass incarceration, climate chaos, unpayable debt, pharmaceutical violence and the relentless degradation of common life.In Revenge Capitalism, Max Haiven argues that this economic ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Player and the Played

    From Gamed Capitalism to 21st-Century Fascism

    by Max Haiven ...
    A provocative examination of the ways our economy has been rigged by financialization, and the importance of games to our dangerous political moment.In an age when capitalism feels like an unwinnable game, extreme reactionary ideas and politics are on the rise. The Hunger Games, Game of Thrones, Squid Game and much of reality TV are cultural reflections of a society of relentless, lonely ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power

    Capitalism, Creativity and the Commons

    by Max Haiven ...
    Today, when it seems like everything has been privatized, when austerity is too often seen as an economic or political problem that can be solved through better policy, and when the idea of moral values has been commandeered by the right, how can we re-imagine the forces used as weapons against community, solidarity, ecology and life itself?In this stirring call to arms, Max Haiven argues that ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Radical Imagination

    Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity

    by Doctor Alex Khasnabish, Max Haiven ...
    The idea of the imagination is as evocative as it is elusive. Not only does the imagination allow us to project ourselves beyond our own immediate space and time, it also allows us to envision the future, as individuals and as collectives. The radical imagination, then, is that spark of difference, desire and discontent that can be fanned into the flames of social change. Yet what precisely is the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Art after Money, Money after Art

    Creative Strategies against Financialization

    by Max Haiven ...
    We imagine that art and money are old enemies, but this myth actually reproduces a violent system of global capitalism and prevents us from imagining and building alternatives.From the chaos unleashed by the ‘imaginary’ money in financial markets to the new forms of exploitation enabled by the ‘creative economy’ to the way art has become the plaything of the world’s plutocrats, our era of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Sociology of Debt

    by Max Haiven, Nicholas Gane, Joe Deville, Rosie Walker, Leila Dawney, Samuel Kirwan, Mark Davis, Joshua Bowsher, Ole Bjerg, Lisa Adkins ...
    Over the course of the last ten years the issue of debt has become a serious problem that threatens to destroy the global socio-economic system and ruin the everyday lives of millions of people. This collection brings together a range of perspectives of key thinkers on debt to provide a sociological analysis focused upon the social, political, economic, and cultural meanings of indebtedness.The ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture

    Edited by Mitchum Huehls, Rachel Greenwald Smith ...
    How has the pervasive spread of free market thinking affected contemporary literature?Neoliberalism has been a buzzword in literary studies for well over a decade, but its meaning remains ambiguous and its salience contentious. In Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture, Mitchum Huehls and Rachel Greenwald Smith offer a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary literature through the lens ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Less is More

    How Degrowth Will Save the World

    by Jason Hickel ...
    'A powerfully disruptive book for disrupted times ... If you're looking for transformative ideas, this book is for you.' KATE RAWORTH, economist and author of Doughnut EconomicsA Financial Times Book of the Year______________________________________Our planet is in trouble. But how can we reverse the current crisis and create a sustainable future? The answer is: DEGROWTH.... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Utopia of Rules

    On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

    by David Graeber ...
    From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our livesWhere does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence?To answer these questions, the anthropologist David Graeber—one of ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • Capitalist Realism

    Is There No Alternative?

    by Mark Fisher ...
    An analysis of the ways in which capitalism has presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD