ALIENATION. RAHEL JAEGGI, Columbia University Press The Hegelian-Marxist idea of alienation fell out of favor after the postmetaphysical rejection of humanism and essentialist views of human nature. [...] Read more

Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death endures because it confronts the most universal yet most repressed dimension of human existence. Its brilliance lies in revealing that the striving for [...] Read more

Frey, C. B. (2019). The technology trap: Capital, labor, and power in the age of automation. Princeton University Press. How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand [...] Read more

Find out how organisations like tobacco and fossil fuel companies sell doubt about science, in order to undermine public trust. [...] Read more

Alone Together, Sherry Turkle Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together (2011) offers a penetrating sociological and psychological examination of the ways digital technologies—particularly social media, [...] Read more

The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World, Noam Chomsky co-authored with Nathan J. Robinson Introduction Noam Chomsky’s The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. [...] Read more

Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics in the Age of Crisis by George Monbiot A toxic ideology rules the world – of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying [...] Read more

George Monbiot - Invisible Doctrine, The Secret History of Neoliberalism A sharp, fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but connects it to the climate [...] Read more

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom by Grace Blakeley “Vulture Capitalism” by Grace Blakeley offers a searing critique of how four decades of [...] Read more

The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek Friedrich A. Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom in 1944 as a warning to Western democracies. At a time when both Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union seemed [...] Read more