No, Anti-Book is not a book about books. Not exactly. And yet it is a must for anyone interested in the future of the book. Presenting what he terms “a communism of textual matter,” Nicholas Thoburn e
A critical and provocative exploration of the political, conceptual and cultural points of resonance between Deleuze's minor politics and Marx's critique of capitalist dynamics, engaging with Deleuze'
A critical appropriation of Brutalism in the crisis conditions of today.A study of the Robin Hood Gardens housing estate in east London, this book critically appropriates Brutalism under the crisis conditions of today. Immersed in the materials, atmospheres, social forms, and afterlives of this extraordinary estate, here Brutalism is wrested from today’s privatizing tastes for “raw concrete” and nostalgia for the post-war class settlement. The only mass-housing scheme by New Brutalist pioneers Alison and Peter Smithson, Robin Hood Gardens has been the object of much dispute. But the clichéd terms of discussion―is it a “concrete monstrosity” or a “modernist masterpiece”?―have marginalized the estate’s residents and masked the role of the housing crisis and revanchist urbanism in its demolition. Breaking with these narratives, Brutalism as Found centers the estate’s lived experience by a multiethnic working class, not to displace the architecture’s experimental qualities of matter and fo
Part of the "Deleuze Connections" series, this book explores and explains Deleuze's political philosophy. It offers a different perspective on contemporary politics.
This volume in the Deleuze Connections series debates and extends Deleuze's political thought through engagement with contemporary political events and concepts. Against recent critique of Deleuze as
After the Future explores our century-long obsession with the concept of "the future." Beginning with F. T. Marinetti's "Futurist Manifesto" and the worldwide race toward a new and highly mechanized s
