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Design, Politics, the Environment: a survey of the key thinkers and ideas that are rebuilding the world in the shadow of the anthropocene

As we face the compounded crises of late capitalism, environmental catastrophe and technological transformation, who are the thinkers and the ideas who will allow us to understand the world we live in? McKenzie Wark surveys three areas at the cutting edge of current critical thinking: design, environment, technology and introduces us to the thinking of nineteen major writers. Each chapter is a concise account of an individual thinker, providing useful context and connections to the work of the others.

A powerful meditation on political resistance and the global search for justice

From the ‘ War on Terror’ to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far extremes of human behaviour, and the underlying despair. Looking at Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq, he makes an impassioned attack on the poverty and loss of freedom at the heart of such unnecessary suffering.

Malm unearths the shared roots of colonial adventurism in Palestine and fossil fuelled warfare.

Israel’s pulverization of Gaza since October 7, 2023 is not only a humanitarian crisis, but an environmental catastrophe. Far from the first event of its kind, the devastation Israel has inflicted on Palestine since October 2023 has merely ushered in a new phase in a long history of colonization and extraction that reaches back to the nineteenth century. In this book, Andreas Malm argues that a true understanding of the present crisis requires a longue durée analysis of Palestine's subjugation to fossil empire.

WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF THE IMAGE IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?

Hito Steyerl is one of the most celebrated artists of our time. Her work, both as an artist and a writer, has consistently challenged the political boundaries between art and technol­ogy. In this new collection of groundbreaking essays, she explores how AI, the use of large language models and the algorithmic creation of imagery transform our understanding of the world. She argues that such practices cannot be divorced from the economic and political conditions of the times.

A literary history of walking From Dickens to Zizek

Can you get lost in a crowd? It is polite to stare at people walking past on the street? What differentiates the city of daylight and the nocturnal metropolis? What connects walking, philosophy and the big toe? Can we save the city - or ourselves - by taking the pavement?

Najważniejsze dzieło w dorobku kompozytora Raymonda Murray’a Schafera i prekursorska pozycja w tradycji humanistycznych badań nad dźwiękiem po raz pierwszy w polskim przekładzie.

Czy psychodeliki mogą pomóc Polakom?

Maciej Lorenc – autor głośnego bestsellera "Czy psychodeliki uratują świat?" – wraca z książką o polskiej scenie psychodelicznej. To opowieść o naukowcach, lekarzach i aktywistach, którzy badają i testują potencjał substancji takich jak LSD, psylocybina czy MDMA – nie tylko w kontekście leczenia depresji, uzależnień i PTSD, ale też w szerszym wymiarze społecznym, kulturowym i politycznym.

Po niemal pięciu dekadach wojny z narkotykami ugruntowane przekonanie o szkodliwości wszelkich substancji psychoaktywnych zaczyna rozpadać się pod naporem kolejnych dowodów naukowych.