Events
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‘How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World, And How We Win it Back’ with Jeremy Gilbert, Alex Williams and Alison Winch
‘How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World, And How We Win it Back’ with Jeremy Gilbert, Alex Williams and Alison Winch Housmans has proudly teamed up with Space4 and the FUTURES Podcast to present a series of live events regarding the impacts of capitalism on digital technology. In this last session we’ll be hosting a panel discussion […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: Love the World Or Get Killed Trying ALVINA CHAMBERLAND in conversation with JULIET JACQUES
Housmans are delighted to be welcoming Alvina Chamberland to celebrate the publication of her hotly anticipated autofictional work Love the World Or Get Killed Trying. Named a Most Anticipated Book in Nylon, Them, Ms. Magazine, Autostraddle, San Francisco Chronicle, Bay Area Reporter, LGBTQ-reads, and Write or Die-Magazine. “Perhaps some hearts are so big they must […]
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Book Talk: Half-Earth Socialism
Housmans are delighted to welcome Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass to the shop to celebrate the paperback launch of their seminal book Half-Earth Socialism. Without revolutionary change, humanity confronts a dystopian future of global heating, epidemics, and mass extinction. Yet, the mainstream 'solutions' on offer are either too modest or too risky, such as toothless […]
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Book Talk: Change Everything by Natalie Bennett
Housmans are delighted to welcome Natalie Bennett to the shop to celebrate the publication of her new book of green political theory: Change Everything: How we can rethink, repair and rebuild society. We are living in a social, political, economic and environmental emergency. The status quo is profoundly unstable; change is inevitable. Now is the […]
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The Rentier City: ISAAC ROSE in conversation with NICK BANO
Housmans are delighted to welcome two authors whose work interrogates the most pressing problems of our time: the housing crisis, the problem of landlordism and gentrification. In Isaac Rose's The Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis, the author observes that in cities across the world, gentrification and the housing crisis are […]
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‘Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labour’ with Kim Kelly
On a rare visit to Britain, Housmans welcomes journalist, author, and organiser Kim Kelly, to speak about her book 'Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labour', and to discuss the current groundswell in US labour activism."Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a […]
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“Is this nationalism or some new horror?” Gargi Bhattacharyya and Sivamohan Valluvan on borders and labour in the emerging future
"Is this nationalism or some new horror?" Gargi Bhattacharyya and Sivamohan Valluvan on borders and labour in the emerging future The first conversation in a three-part series on Resisting Nationalism is with Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya. Via their recently published The Futures of Racial Capitalism, Gargi will explore with Vallu the place but also limits of […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: Walking The Streets/Walking The Projects: OWEN HATHERLEY in conversation with LAURA GRACE FORD
Housmans are delighted to welcome Owen Hatherley and Laura Grace Ford to the shop to celebrate the publication of Owen's latest book: 'Walking The Streets/Walking The Projects.' These are two of our most beloved, and exciting, writers working at the thresholds of psychogeography, urban theory and radical thought. So we are particularly excited to be […]
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‘Empire, Decline and the Fate of English Nationalism’ Sivamohan Valluvan in conversation with Kojo Koram on his book ‘Uncommon Wealth’.
'Empire, Decline and the Fate of English Nationalism' Sivamohan Valluvan in conversation with Kojo Koram on his book 'Uncommon Wealth'. In the second conversation in a three-part series on Resisting Nationalism Kojo and Vallu will explore contemporary English nationalism's morose impasse, an impasse that squats in the legacies of Empire but also bequeaths to its […]
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AUTONOMY NOW Book Launch: The Politics of Solidarity: The International Working Men’s Association 1873 with Anthony Zurbrugg
AUTONOMY NOW Book Launch: The Politics of Solidarity: The International Working Men’s Association 1873 with Anthony Zurbrugg Autonomy Now present the launch of a new book from Merlin Press exploring the infamous arguments and split within the International Working Men’s Association. The disagreements, which gravitated between the two positions of Mikhail Bakunin's horizontalist anarchism and Karl […]
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POSTPONED DUE TO SPEAKER COMING DOWN WITH COVID! So Mayer and Kate Hardie in conversation.
Our speakers: Kate Hardie is an actor and screenwriter, her acting work includes The Krays, Mona Lisa, the award winning Safe and more recently National Treasure. She has written and directed for Channel Four The BFI and Sky and is due to direct her first feature. She has also taught screen writing and directing, lectured […]
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AUTONOMY NOW Book Launch:’Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire’ with Adam Greenfield
AUTONOMY NOW Book Launch: 'Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire' with Adam Greenfield Autonomy Now present the launch of a new book from Verso, an urgent and practical guide to community resilience in the face of climate catastrophe. In this book Adam Greenfield, author of Radical Technologies, recovers lessons from the Black […]
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SISSY ANARCHY presents the release of ‘KNOTS’ by Fi Kube
FeaturedSISSY ANARCHY cranks up the volume on confessional literature with a blistering new journal series. Brace yourself for genre-bending writers who burrow into the recesses of their psyches, dragging out the raw, unsettling truths lurking beneath the surface. For our first journal, we present the release of ‘KNOTS’ by Fi Kube, an auto-essay journal that […]
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“Disaster Nationalism” Richard Seymour and Sivamohan Valluvan on the Downfall of Liberal Civilization
"Disaster Nationalism" Richard Seymour and Sivamohan Valluvan on the Downfall of Liberal Civilization The third and final conversation in a three-part series on Resisting Nationalism is with Richard Seymour previewing his forthcoming book 'Disaster Nationalism' (October 2024, Verso). The rise of the new far-right has left the world grappling with a profound misunderstanding. While the […]
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