A rumbustious retelling of the birth of the Enlightenment, from the bestselling radical author of The Dawn of Everything

The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie…

Huge swathes of people spend their days performing tasks they secretly believe are not really necessary. This book shows why, and what we can do about it

Back in 1930…

Full of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently.

What makes a city a city? Who…

Where 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?

To answer these questions…

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber: Conversation Starters

Bullshit jobs are spiritually and morally corrosive and make people extremely unhappy. If people are denied meaningful jobs that enable them to somehow…

A powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences. Gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work…

From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives Where does the desire for endless rules…

This manifesto offers the essence of OEcalan’s ideas on society, knowledge, and power, and they are crucial for understanding the Kurdish revolution. OEcalan argues that a criticism that limits itself…