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Mutual Aid - Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade
$19.99 AUD
Category: Theory
Around the world, people are faced with crisis after crisis, from the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond ...Show more
The Care Manifesto - The Politics of Interdependence by The Care The Care Collective; Andreas Chatzidakis; Jamie Hakim; Jo Litter; Catherine Rottenberg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Theory
The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis- from intimate care childcare, healthcare, elder care to care for the natural world. We live in a world where carelessness reigns, but it does not have to be this way. The Care Manifesto puts forth a vision for a truly caring ...Show more
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But, there is also another sense in whi ...Show more
Lessons in Stoicism by John Sellars; Anon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Theory
A deeply comforting and enlightening book on how Stoicism can inspire us to lead more enjoyable lives What aspects of your life do you really control? What do you do when you cannot guarantee that things will turn out in your favour? And what can Stoicism teach us about how to live together? In the pa ...Show more
How to Disappear - Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency by Akiko Busch
$27.99 AUD
Category: Theory
In our networked and image-saturated lives, the notion of disappearing has never been more alluring. Today, we are relentlessly encouraged to reveal, share, and promote ourselves. The pressure to be public comes not just from our peers, but from vast and pervasive technology companies that want to profi ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft; Miriam Brody (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
Written during a time of great political turmoil, social anxiety, and against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft's argument continues to challenge and inspire. This revised and expanded Third Edition is again based on the 1792 second-edition text and is accompanied by revised and expa ...Show more
Portable Hannah Arendt by Peter Baehr (Introduction by); Hannah Arendt
$37.99 AUD
Category: Theory
A collection of writings by a groundbreaking political thinker, including excerpts from The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem She was a Jew born in Germany in the early twentieth century, and she studied with the greatest German minds of her day--Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers ...Show more
The Analects by Confucius
$19.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Analects are a collection of Confucius's sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC. Together they express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all time, believed everyone should live. Upholding the ideals of wisdom, self ...Show more
All About Love: New visions by Bell Hooks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Love Song to the Nation Ser.
THE ACCLAIMED FIRST VOLUME IN HER "LOVE SONG TO THE NATION" "The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet . . . we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the ...Show more
Great Ideas: On the Shortness of Life by Lucius Annaeus Seneca; Charles Desmond Nuttall Costa
$12.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
Timeless advice on the art of living well, from the celebrated Penguin Great Ideas series The writings of the ancient Roman philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into stoicism, morality and the importance of reason, and continue to provide profound guidance to many through their eloquence, lucidity ...Show more
Confabulations by John Berger
$16.99 AUD
Category: Theory
'Language is a body, a living creature ...and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itself, and how it relates to thought, art, song, storytelling and pol ...Show more
Object-oriented Ontology : A New Theory of Everything by Graham Harman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Pelican Bks.
What is reality, really? Are humans more special or important than the non-human objects we perceive? How does this change the way we understand the world? We humans tend to believe that things are only real in as much as we perceive them, an idea reinforced by modern philosophy, which privileges us as ...Show more
