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Arcades Materials: SET

ed. by Sam Dolbear and Hannah Proctor

London: Big Cartel, 2019

Arcades Materials is a series of three pamphlets inspired by the German-Jewish Marxist philosopher Walter Benjamin’s unfinished Arcades Project, a mammoth work centred on the shopping arcades of nineteenth-century Paris.

Die Kunst des Wartens

ed. by Brigitte Kölle
and Claudia Peppel

Berlin: Wagenbach, 2019

Niemand wartet gern. Doch wer entscheidet, ob und wie wir warten? Angespannt oder resigniert, geduldig oder zuversichtlich? Schätzen wir Dinge mehr, auf die wir lange gewartet haben? Die Bilder und Texte dieses Buches vermitteln eine Fülle von Ideen und Einblicken.

Ghostly Desires

Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema

Arnika Fuhrmann

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016

Through an examination of post-1997 Thai cinema and video art Arnika Fuhrmann shows how vernacular Buddhist tenets, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring current struggles over notions of personhood, sexuality, and collective life.

Ambivalenzen des Alltags

Neuorientierungen für eine Theorie des Politischen

Brigitte Bargetz

Bielefeld: transcript, 2016

Following Henri Lefebvre, Agnes Heller, and Lawrence Grossberg, Bargetz outlines a complex theory of everyday life that allows for a perception of the everyday as an ambivalent political battleground between domination and resistance.

Palestinians in Syria

Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities

Anaheed Al-Hardan

New York: Columbia University Press, 2016

Al-Hardan's research sheds light on the enduring relevance of the Nakba among the communities it helped create, while challenging the nationalist and patriotic idea that memories of the Nakba are static and universally shared among Palestinians.

The Trouble with Pleasure

Deleuze and Psychoanalysis

Aaron Schuster

Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016

Neither a Lacanian reading of Deleuze nor a Deleuzian reading of Lacan but rather a systematic and comparative analysis that identifies concerns common to both thinkers and their ultimately incompatible ways of addressing them.

The Most Unsatisfied Town

Amy Evans

Münster, edition assemblage, 2015

Since claiming asylum in Germany, Laurence has had to start his life over again. He’s found the formula for survival, or so he thinks, until one day his friend mysteriously disappears.

The Manhattan Project

A Theory of a City

David Kishik

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015

This sharp, witty study of a book never written, a sequel to Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, is dedicated to New York City, capital of the 20th century. A sui generis work of experimental scholarship or fictional philosophy, it analyzes an imaginary manuscript composed by a ghost.

Under Bright Lights

Gay Manila and the Global Scene

Bobby Benedicto

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014

Bobby Benedicto draws on ethnographic research and employs affective, first-person storytelling techniques to capture the visceral experience of Manila, painting a remarkably counterintuitive portrait of gay spaces in postcolonial cities.

The Crises of Multiculturalism

Racism in a Neoliberal Age

Alana Lentin and Gavan Titley

London, Zed Books, 2011

Across the West, something called multiculturalism is in crisis. Regarded as the failed experiment of liberal elites, commentators and politicians compete to denounce its corrosive legacies; parallel communities threatening social cohesion,...