BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Housmans Bookshop X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://housmans.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Housmans Bookshop REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250625T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250625T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250603T112648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250623T154612Z UID:67539-1750878000-1750883400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: REMEMBERING WOMEN by Christine Lehnen DESCRIPTION:Women do have a history of their own. All we need to do is remember it. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to welcome Dr Christine Lehnen to Housmans to discuss her illuminating new investigation\, Remembering Women\, that looks back at our collective memory to explore the myriad ways that women in the past have enjoyed a more egalitarian life \n\n\n\nDue to advances in bioarchaeological methods\, scientists have discovered that one out of three women in Ancient Scythia was an active warrior buried with her weapons. Far from being confined to their homes\, these women rode out to hunt\, travelled to distance places\, or used weapons to fend off their enemies. These warriors were no exceptions to the rule\, with women enjoying a significantly higher degree of equality than their Greek contemporaries. \n\n\n\nRemembering Women argues that there is a historical precedent for a fairer society. From reappraisals of well-known objects such as the earliest human bone calendars from the Stone Age to revelatory findings of innovative bioarcheological methods used on human remains from Ancient Scythia\, evidence is accumulating that there were places in the past where all women were allowed to thrive. \n\n\n\nInterweaving new findings from archaeology with the stories of her mother and grandmothers\, as well as her everyday experiences as a woman living today\, Lehnen explores our collective memory of women and argues that it needs to change if we are to create an egalitarian society. Remembering Women follows the traces left in the material\, literary\, and archaeological record by our foremothers\, and their heirlooms\, artwork and stories\, to take a fresh look at our life in the present. \n\n\n\nChristine will be joined in conversation by the writer and wild-swimmer Emma Simpson\, author of Breaking Waves. They will be in conversation for around 45 minutes to an hour\, followed by a Q&A. \n\n\n\nOur Speakers: \n\n\n\nCHRISTINE LEHNEN is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. She is a regular contributor on feminism\, culture\, history\, archaeology and public memoryfor outlets such as Aeon\, Psyche\, The Wire\, Antigone\, New Lines\, Magazine\, and Deutsche Welle. \n\n\n\nEMMA SIMPSON is a wild swimmer and writer specialising in narrative non-fiction. Having spent a couple of decades being distracted by a career as an air traffic controller and experiencing two life-wrenching events\, she rediscovered her pen and passion for storytelling at the same time as discovering how transformational cold-water swimming was for hert health\, wellbeing\, and sense of connection with the world. She explores these themes in her compelling\, moving book Breaking Waves. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nPLEASE NOTE: Our website has been malfunctioning and we are currently unable to sell tickets through it. For the time being events will be free but please RSVP using the link below. Please only RSVP if you are certain to come to the event\, as we need to keep a cap on the volume of attendees for health and safety reasons. \n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-remembering-women-by-christine-lehnen/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Remembering-Women-HB-Cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250701T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250701T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250521T133641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250621T151825Z UID:66865-1751396400-1751401800@housmans.com SUMMARY:SOLD OUT: Friends in Common by Laura C. Forster and Joel White DESCRIPTION:Housmans are delighted to be welcoming Laura C. Forster and Joel White to the shop for a dicussion of their wonderful\, exhilarting book on the radical potential of friendship! \n\n\n\nFriendship is full of revolutionary potential in the face of a profoundly anti-social capitalist system. Friends in Common explores friendship as a radical practice\, capable of upending hierarchies and producing social change.Friendship can transcend social boundaries and political borders. It is vital in building communities and underpinning solidarity. But its transformative potency ensures that it is heavily policed and restrained by the state. Understanding the radical possibilities of friendship can help us rethink our approach to family\, work and politics\, and show us new routes to resistance and ways to open up spaces of solidarity and escape. The dissonance created by comparing societal expectations around friendship and a lonely reality\, especially in the wake of an isolating global pandemic\, is deeply alienating. Friends in Common shows that friendship as a political practice is foundational to strengthening revolutionary ideas and projects\, and is the antidote to capitalist despair. \n\n\n\nLaura and Joel will talk us through the book and its major themes and arguments for around 45 minutes\, followed by an audience Q&A. \n\n\n\nOur Speakers: \n\n\n\nLaura C. Forster is a writer and historian based in Newcastle. She is a lecturer in Modern History at the University of York\, and has written for Tribune\, ROAR\, and DOPE. \n\n\n\nJoel White is a writer and campaigner based in Glasgow. His writing has appeared in Tribune\, the LRB Blog\, Radical Philosophy\, The Guardian\, and The Wire. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT HAS NOW SOLD OUT. Please call us or email shop@housmans.com to be added to the waitlist. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-talk-friends-in-common-by-laura-c-forster-and-joel-white/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/avif:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/9780745350585.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250705T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250705T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250610T125434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250612T102731Z UID:67713-1751742000-1751747400@housmans.com SUMMARY:POETRY READING: Pamemar Press x Tripwire Journal Leslie Kaplan translations DESCRIPTION:We are very excited to be welcoming our friends Tripwire Journal [who are joining us all the way from California!] and Pamenar Press to celebrate the work of a very important writer indeed: Leslie Kaplan. We are very lucky to be hosting the launch of TWO Kaplan books available in English for the first time. \n\n\n\nThe French poet\, playwright\, and novelist Leslie Kaplan has been an important writer of the French left. She has published over twenty books in all three genres\, many of which have been translated into German\, Swedish\, Spanish\, Danish\, Norwegian\, and now\, English. Her first book\, L’exces l’usine (1982)\, gained the attention of writers such as Marguerite Duras and Maurice Blanchot\, and became an important book for the ‘68 generation. In 2018 Commune Editions published Excess—The Factory\, translated by Julie Carr and Jennifer Pap. This was the first English language edition of the book. \n\n\n\nNow\, from Pamenar Press we have the first English edition of The Book of Skies\, also translated by Julie Carr and Jennifer Pap. Like its predecessor Excess—The Factory this collection emerged from Kaplan’s experience of participating in the national strike and social revolution of 1968 in France. Early in ‘68 Kaplan\, like others\, left her studies in order to take on factory work\, as an aspect of revolutionary practice. Excess—the Factory famously put the factory experience on the page in sparse and original language. The Book of Skies takes place in the period just after ‘68 as the speaker now observes the places\, landscapes\, and people surrounding and relying on factory production in French cities\, small and large. As the speaker moves from site to site\, she finds possibility within the social spaces of the market\, the street\, the café\, and even the factory itself. While class and gendered violence threaten to shut down hopes for freedom and renewal\, the sky\, as reality and as figure\, functions as an aperture\, drawing our attention upward and outward\, even or especially when domestic and work-spaces are most violent or suffocating. \n\n\n\nAlongside this\, we are delighted that our comrade David Buuk from Tripwire will be joining us to launch a new English edition of Kaplan’s novella\, Miss Nobody Knowsp; about the lived aftermath of May ’68: its hopes and failures and how they continue to resonate today.A book described by Jean-Luc Godard as ‘so strong and graceful\, so… so… so… as if the novel were suspended between the animal and the human.” \n\n\n\n“Ostensibly about the May ’68 strike and a man who cannot deal with its aftermath\, but really a love story to these moments when suddenly the utopian comes into view and no longer feels impossible. It’s a book to read right now so as to remember that there have been moments when people come together in the name of possibility\, rather than in rage.” —Juliana Spahr \n\n\n\nThis is a free event but please RSVP using the link below. BYOB. \n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/poetry-reading-pamemar-press-x-tripwire-journal-leslie-kaplan-translations/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/tickets2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250709T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250709T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250617T130404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250708T125752Z UID:67905-1752087600-1752093000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: YOUR LIFE IS NOT A (FUCKING) STORY with Simon Critchley DESCRIPTION:Housmans are delighted to welcome Simon Critchley to the shop to discuss a new volume of essays\, ‘Your Life Is Not a (Fucking) Story‘ published by everyday analysis. In this collection of his recent articles\, Critchley – one of the most important living philosophers – takes us through his reflections on death\, questions of doubt and reason\, the legacy of David Bowie\, the nature of fear and empathy in a broken society and a critique of narrative identity – among other things. Your Life Is Not a Story explores the contemporary world and its psychological impact on us\, offering us a way to see our situation different and resist its tricks and contrivances. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nThis is a free event. \n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-talk-your-life-is-not-a-fucking-story-with-simon-critchley/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/ea-coverconcepts-critchley_page_1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250716T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250716T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250617T125025Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250630T104237Z UID:67576-1752692400-1752697800@housmans.com SUMMARY:CANCELED: CARCERAL APARTHEID: Brittany Friedman in conversation with Ali Meghji DESCRIPTION:Please note this has event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-talk-carceral-apartheid-brittany-friedman-in-conversation-with-ali-meghji/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/9781469683409.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250721T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250721T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250705T123301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250721T155208Z UID:68323-1753124400-1753133400@housmans.com SUMMARY:POETRY READING: GHAYATH ALMADHOUN AND LOTTE L.S. DESCRIPTION:We welcome the Syrian-Palestinian Ghayath Almadhoun to the shop to read from his incredible collection I HAVE BROUGHT YOU A SEVERED HAND\, reacently translated into English by Catherine Cobham and published by Divided Publishing. \n\n\n\nFluid and unselfconscious\, Ghayath Almadhoun writes love poems in the shape of nightmares: I have brought you a severed hand is a surreal mix of absurd humour\, straight lust and dead seriousness. Caught between two exiles\, the one inherited from his Palestinian father and the one he chose and lives\, Almadhoun attempts to explain water and tame hope. \n\n\n\nReading alongside him\, and joining him in discussion we have Lotte L.S. one of the finest British poets working today in a radical left tradition. \n\n\n\nThis is a free event\, but we ask that you RSVP using the link below. Drinks will be available\, but please do feel free to BYOB. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/poetry-reading-ghayath-almadhoun-and-lotte-l-s/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/tickets-3-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250726T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250726T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250630T110252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250723T172218Z UID:68198-1753556400-1753561800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: FASCIST YOGA with STEWART HOME DESCRIPTION:We are very\, very\, very exited to be welcoming the dazzling provocateur\, artist and all-round London legend STEWART HOME back to Housmans to talk about his latest book\, Fascist Yoga: Grifters\, Occultists\, White Supremacists\, and the New Order In Wellness\, a dazzling exposé on the violent politics and occultic fascism that underpins much of the history of contemporary yoga. As ever\, Stewart Home shows that nothing is sacred. \n\n\n\nThe practice of yoga promises peace\, self-realisation and release\, thanks to the power of its ‘mystic’ Indian origins. But what if this is just hype? In Fascist Yoga\, Stewart Home sweeps away the half-truths to tell a new origin story of the world’s first modern yogi – a Californian escapologist who added some Hindu fairy dust to gym and circus exercises. \n\n\n\nEver since\, the world of yoga has been full of grifters\, occultists and white supremacists\, all out to exploit and recruit via the medium of exercise. From cult leaders to brainwashed followers\, TV celebrities and fake gurus\, the story of yoga has involved some of the strangest currents of humanity. \n\n\n\nToday\, the COVID pandemic has activated elements within the modern yoga movement to espouse far-right conspiracies\, and QAnon’s fascist political programmes mirror some of yoga’s key early proponents. \n\n\n\nInterviewing Stewart about the book we have the legendary poet Sascha Aurora Akhtar! Sascha was born in Pakistan. Since that was obviously a mistake\, she fled as soon as possible to an environment where women could be wacky. What was born was a hydra. Each head a different medium\, via which to transmit her wyrd and whimsical witchery. She graduated from Bennington College in 1999. She has written all too many poems\, out of which some have managed to become titled collections. Her films include Ana-el-Haqq (2002) and The Sea and Medusa (2006). In 2003 she received a fellowship from the Creative Writing department at UMASS Amherst where she worked with James Tate\, Sabina Murray and Peter Gizzi. In 2005 and 2006\, she performed in Butoh-based dance pieces at Chisenhale Dance Space in London. She recently was part of a year-long initiative by the International Museum of Women in San Francisco\, exhibiting work by women artists from around the globe. Her photographic work was on display at Gallery 27 on Cork Street in September 2007 and an exhibition of her works is upcoming in Spring 2008 at The Commune in Karachi\, Pakistan. She spends her time in London and Pakistan and is the co-producer of the successful La Langoustine Est Morte reading series. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-fascist-yoga-with-stewart-home/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/avif:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/9780745351124.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250729T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250729T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250617T130155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250621T151241Z UID:67943-1753815600-1753821000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Launch: THREE REVOLUTIONS: Simon Hall in conversation with Owen Hatherley DESCRIPTION:Simon Hall and Owen Hatherley will be joining us to discuss Simon’s fascinating new book\, THREE REVOLUTIONS: Russia\, China\, Cuba and the Epic Journeys That Changed The World. \n\n\n\nFrom the streets of Petrograd during the heady autumn of 1917\, to Mao’s stunning victory in October 1949\, and Fidel’s triumphant arrival in Havana\, in January 1959\, the history of the twentieth century was transformed in dramatic and profound ways by the Russian\, Chinese\, and Cuban revolutions. \n\n\n\nIn Three Revolutions\, the stories of these epoch-defining events are told together for the first time. At the heart of each revolution was an epic journey: Lenin’s 1917 return to Russia from exile in Switzerland; Mao’s ‘Long March’ of 1934–35\, covering some 6\,000 miles across China; and Fidel Castro’s return to Cuba in 1956 following his exile in Mexico. Told in tandem with these are the corresponding journeys of three extraordinary journalists – John Reed\, Edgar Snow and Herbert L. Matthews – whose electric testimony from the frontlines of each revolution would make a decisive contribution to how these revolutions were understood in the wider world. \n\n\n\nHere\, in Simon Hall’s masterful retelling\, these six remarkable journeys are brought vividly to life. Featuring a stellar cast\, extraordinary drama and an epic sweep\, Three Revolutions raises fundamental questions about the nature of political power\, the limits of idealism and the role of the journalist – questions that remain of utmost urgency today. \n\n\n\nOur Speakers: \n\n\n\nSimon Hall is the Professor of Modern History at the University of Leeds. He previously studied at Sheffield and Cambridge\, and held a Fox International Fellowship at Yale. His previous books include 1956: The World in Revolt and Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s. \n\n\n\nOwen Hatherley is the author of many books on aesthetics and politics\, including Landscapes of Communism\, Trans-Europe Express and Modern Buildings in Britain. His latest book\, The Alienation Effect explores how Central European Émigrés transformed Britain in the 20th century. He is a commissioning editor at Jacobin. \n\n\n\nAdvanced Booking Strongly Recommended. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-three-revolutions-simon-hall-in-conversation-with-owen-hatherley-2/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Three-Revolutions-54-533x815-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250730T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250730T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250705T114049Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250705T114052Z UID:68311-1753902000-1753907400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: A Social History of Analytic Philosophy with Christoph Schuringa DESCRIPTION:‘Christoph Schuringa’s A Social History of Analytic Philosophy achieves the impossible: while it follows a clear line of interpretation – analytic philosophy is not politically neutral\, it is deeply rooted in capitalist liberalism and its struggle against Leftist engagement -\, it develops this line in a vast and complex narrative full of fascinating historical and personal details\, from the Cambridge beginnings of analytic thought (Russell\, Moore) through the key role of analytic philosophy in McCarthy purges up to how analytic approach was crucial in including anti-colonial and feminist orientations into the liberal frame (Appiah). Schuringa’s book is unputdownable – applied to it\, this term is not a cliché but a simple description of its effect on a reader.‘ \n\n\n\n – Slavoj Žižek \n\n\n\nIn the English speaking world\, self-described ‘analytic philosophy’ has become the predominant method of philosophical inquiry\, at least within the majority of university philosophy departments. By some\, it is celebrated for it’s exhalting of rigorousness and pursuit ‘the empirical.’ Others find these theoretical claims to be dubious and naieve. Christoph Schuringa\, in its brilliantly argued book\, A Social History of Analytic Philosophy\, argues that the enduring power of analytic philosophy can only be understood by examining its social history. The mode tends to think of itself as concerned with eternal questions\, transcending the changing scenes of history. It thinks of itself as apolitical. Schuringa\, however\, convincingly shows that the opposite is true. \n\n\n\nThe origins of analytic philosophy are in a set of distinct movements\, shaped by highly specific sets of political and social forces. Only after the Second World War were these disparate\, often dynamic movements joined together to make ‘analytic philosophy’ as we know it. In the climate of McCarthyism\, analytic philosophy was robbed of political force. \n\n\n\nTo this day\, analytic philosophy is the ideology of the status quo. It may seem arcane and largely removed from the real world\, but it is a crucial component in upholding liberalism\, through its central role in elite educational institutions. As Schuringa concludes\, the apparently increasing friendliness of analytic philosophers to rival approaches in philosophy should be understood as a form of colonization; thanks to its hegemonic status\, it reformats all it touches in service of its own imperatives\, going so far as to colonize decolonial efforts in the discipline. \n\n\n\nChristoph Schuringa studied philosophy at King’s College\, Cambridge and Birkbeck College\, University of London. He has published widely on the history of philosophy and on Marx and Marxism\, and is associate professor of philosophy at Northeastern University\, London. He is Editor of the Hegel Bulletin\, and his writing has appeared in Jacobin\, New Left Review\, European Journal of Philosophy and elsewhere. \n\n\n\nHe will be joined in conversation with Jonathan Egid\, lecturer in Philosophy at SOAS. Jonathan recently completed my PhD at King’s College London on the Ḥatäta Zär’a Ya‛ǝqob and the controversy over its authorship. Beyond the aim of clarifying this intractable debate\, and bringing neglected works to a wider audience\, Jonathan is interested in thinking about different ways of writing the history of philosophy\, in particular what a truly global history of philosophy would look like. \n\n\n\nThe two will talk for around 45 minutes to 1 hour\, followed by a Q&A. Please do feel free to bring your own drinks. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:45\, talk starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-a-social-history-of-analytic-philosophy-with-christoph-schuringa-2/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/9781804292099.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250801T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250801T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250722T113402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250722T115833Z UID:68833-1754074800-1754083800@housmans.com SUMMARY:POETRY READING: DOM HALE LAUNCHES FIRST NETTLES DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome back to the shop Dom Hale; a co-organiser of the Poets Hardship Fund\, publishing great work at Chaff and one of our finest poets. Dom will be launching his new collection ‘First Nettles’ published by The Last Books. Joining Dom we have Fred Spoliar\, Paige Murphy\, Luke Roberts\, Andrew Spragg and Katy Lewis Hood. \n\n\n\nTHIS IS A FREE EVENT. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO BYOB. \n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/poetry-reading-dom-hale-launches-first-nettles/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/tickets-4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250904T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250904T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250814T143713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250904T112119Z UID:69517-1757012400-1757017800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Autonomy Now present 'Architecture and Anarchism: Building Without Authority' with Paul Dobraszczyk DESCRIPTION:Autonomy Now host ‘Architecture and Anarchism: Building Without Authority’ with Paul DobraszczykWe welcome Paul Dobraszczyk to discuss anarchist architecture\, that is\, forms of design and building that embrace the core values of traditional anarchist political theory since its divergence from the mainstream of socialist politics in the 19th century. These are autonomy\, voluntary association\, mutual aid\, and self-organisation through direct democracy. As the Paul’s recent book on the topic shows\, there are a vast range of architectural projects that can been seen to reflect some or all of these values\, whether they are acknowledged as specifically anarchist or otherwise. \n\n\n\n\nAnarchist values are evident in projects that grow out of romantic notions of escape – from isolated cabins to intentional communities. Yet\, in contrast\, they also manifest in direct action – occupations or protests that produce micro-countercommunities. Artists also produce anarchist architecture – intimations of much freer forms of building cut loose from the demands of moneyed clients; so do architects and planners who want to involve users in a process normally restricted to an elite few. Others also imagine new social realities through speculative proposals. Finally\, building without authority is\, for some\, a necessity – the thousands of migrants denied their right to become citizens\, even as they have to live somewhere; or the unhoused of otherwise affluent cities forced to build improvised homes for themselves. \n\n\n\nThe result is to significantly broaden existing ideas about what might constitute anarchism in architecture and also to argue strongly for its nurturing in the built environment. Understood in this way\, anarchism offers a powerful way of reconceptualising architecture as an emancipatory\, inclusive\, ecological and egalitarian practice. \n\n\n\nAbout the authorPaul Dobraszczyk is a teaching fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. He is the author of Future Cities: Architecture & the Imagination (2019); The Dead City: Urban Ruins & the Spectacle of Decay (2017); Iron\, Ornament & Architecture in Victorian Britain (2014); London’s Sewer (2014); and Into the Belly of the Beast: Exploring London’s Victorian Sewers (2009); amongst others.Paul’s beautiful book Architecture and Anarchism: Building Without Authority was publihes by Paul Holberton Publishing in 2021 and will be available on the night. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/autonomy-now-present-architecture-and-anarchism-building-without-authority-with-paul-dobraszczyk/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot-2025-08-14-153004.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250905T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250905T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250724T135427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250724T140753Z UID:68900-1757098800-1757104200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book launch + Exhibition: 'WE REFUSE: SAYING NO TO THE ARMY IN ISRAEL' with Martin Barzilai DESCRIPTION:Housmans warmly welcomes Martin Barzilai\, who will be coming from Paris especially for this launch event\, to discuss his book of interviews with refuzeniks\, conscientious objectors and dissidents\, who have refused to join Israel’s conscription army\, the Israel Defence Force (IDF).It takes some courage to refuse to serve in an army\, when people all around you support it. Yet some Israeli men and women\, young and old\, make that choice. The young are forced to justify themselves in front of multiple army interrogators without any support. Their elders\, some of them ex-officers\, tell comrades why they cannot continue to carry out intimidation\, destruction\, and killing in the West Bank and Gaza. \n\n\n\nPersons from under 20\, to over 60 tell of their particular experience; each one adds nuance and insight to the dominant culture within Israel. They tell us about their circumstances\, the government and army\, and their hopes for something different. Their critical perspectives offer a challenge to the views and news that comes to us through the official Israeli media.Martin is a photographer\, and there will be a display of his photographs related to the book\, exhibited at Housmans from September 5th onwards. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: martin-barzilai.com \n\n\n\nMartin Barzilai was born in Montevideo (Uruguay). He has a diploma in photography from Paris’s École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière. His first interests are in the historical\, political and social problems of his continent of origin. He has also completed several photo reportages on themes in Greece\, France\, Tunisia and in Israel/Palestine (New York Times\, Rolling Stone\, Le Monde\, 6 Mois\, CQFD…). Between 2010 and 2015\, he worked with the co-operative Sub.coop (Argentina). He worked with them on the Huis clos project (presented at the Getty Center\, Los Angeles among other places). In 2017\, he published Refuzniks : Dire non à l’armée en Israel\, with Libertalia publishers\, and next\, in 2023\, Cimetière fantôme – Thessalonique with the Editions Créaphis publishing house\, and with the support of the Fondation pour la mémoire de la Shoah. Having taught photography in Barcelona and Buenos Aires\, he now lives in Paris. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-exhibition-we-refuse-saying-no-to-the-army-in-israel-with-martin-barzilai/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IDF-CONSCIENTIOUS-OBJETORS-WE-REFUSE.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250913T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250913T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250814T150035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250821T170341Z UID:69529-1757790000-1757795400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Autonomy Now present ‘Anarcho-Punk: Music and Resistance in London 1977-1988' with David Insurrection and Tony Drayton DESCRIPTION:Anarcho-Punk: Music and Resistance in London 1977-1988 with David Insurrection and Tony Drayton \n\n\n\n\n\nWe welcome David Insurrection to tell the story of an oft overlooked scene. Anarcho-punk in the 1980s truly rocked the boat. Much more than music it set out to change the world and in a not insignificant way did just that. It inspired a generation of activists\, artists and musicians to take up the fight for a better fairer world. They tore down the walls. The Sex Pistols may have opened the door but the Crass punks charged through it. This is their story. As we return to the embattled 1970s and 1980s David takes us on a journey where we visit some of the scene’s most significant locations and hot spots\, to places where change mattered and the spirit of revolt burned brightest. David will be in duscission with Tony Drayton of the infamous ‘Kill Your Pet Puppy’ punk zine and now blog at https://killyourpetpuppy.co.uk \n\n\n\nThe title of the book for me says everything – everything that we gave our soul to during those years. This book does a fantastic job at retelling that story.Col Latter (Flux of Pink Indians) \n\n\n\nThis is a well-researched psychogeographical report on the anarcho-punk squatting scene in London in the late 70s and early 80s.Tom Vague (Vague) \n\n\n\nDavid Insurrection’s opus on the anarchist years that led to a movement of such creative force that  remains unparalleled in our history\, a moment captured for all time by a witness in words and with passion.Chris Ward (Wet Paint Theatre Company) \n\n\n\nAbout the author: \n\n\n\nDavid Insurrection was born in 1962 and raised in NE Scotland. He’s married with one daughter. At the age of 17 in the autumn of 1979 he discovered punk rock. It would leave a lasting impression on him. In 1980 he first heard Crass. That experience changed everything and would determine the direction his life took from that point onwards.In 1984 he began to identify as an anarchist and took his first activist steps. By this time he had immersed himself in everything anarcho-punk. In 1988 he produced his first zine. His next zine in 1990 was called Insurrection. In 1993 he moved to London. He stayed there for four and a half years returning to his native Scotland in 1997. It was during his stay in London that he first got a hankering for writing a book on anarcho-punk. He’s still involved in the scene to this day. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/autonomy-now-present-anarcho-punk-music-and-resistance-in-london-1977-1988-with-david-insurrection/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Anarcho-Punk-Music-and-Resistance-in-London-1977-1988-with-David-Insurrection.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250917T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250917T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250807T161902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250807T161904Z UID:69142-1758135600-1758141000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Talk: THE MERCY STEP: Marcia Hutchinson in conversation with Mel Pennant DESCRIPTION:Gosh this is an exciting one! Join us for a wonderful evening with two incredible authors from the Windrush generation: Marcia Hutchinson and Mel Pennant. The two will be discussing Marcia’s fantastic recent novel\, The Mercy Step. \n\n\n\nBradford\, December 1962. A precocious Mercy makes her reluctant entrance into the world\, torn from the warm embrace of her mother’s womb\, to a chaotic household that seems to have no place for her. Her siblings do not understand her\, her mother’s attention is given to the Church\, and the entire family lives at the whims of her father’s quick temper.  \n\n\n\nLeft to herself\, Mercy finds solace in books\, her imagination\, and the quiet comfort of her faithful toy\, Dolly. But escapism has its limits\, and as the grip of family\, faith and fear threatens to close in\, Mercy learns she must act if she wants a different future; one where she is seen\, heard\, and her family set free.  \n\n\n\nThe Mercy Step is a sharply-witted and tender portrait of a young girl’s quiet rebellion\, and her refusal to be broken.  \n\n\n\nMarcia and Mel will read from and discuss the book for around 45 minutes-1hr followed by a Q&A. Expect conversations around the Black British Experience\, women’s writing and Britain in the 60s! Hope to see you there. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-talk-the-mercy-step-marcia-hutchinson-in-conversation-with-mel-pennant/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/717pYt1ZBTL._SL1500_-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250924T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250924T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250805T153440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250805T161139Z UID:69091-1758740400-1758745800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: ENGLAND'S MILITARY HEARTLAND DESCRIPTION:‘A thoughtful and human account of the enmeshment of the military into the landscapes of everyday life […] As we enter a renewed phase of militarised geo-politics\, this work becomes more urgent than ever.’— Gargi Bhattacharyya\, Director of the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation \n\n\n\nIn association with King’s College London\, Housmans are delighted to host a talk around an essential new book: ENGLAND’S MILITARY HEARTLAND: Preparing for War on Salisbury Plain. This wonderful\, alarming and brilliantly written book explores the vital\, but underdiscussed\, interrelations between British military and civic life. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan\, the armed forces became increasingly visible – partly due to public alarm at the number of fatalities but also as a result of interventions by government\, media and military leaders. Today the world is undergoing a terrifying arms race in which powerful arms companies are competing to produce new generations of killing technology\, including AI and nuclear weapons. Many people feel powerless to stop their governments spending more and more on defence\, and being complicit in ongoing war crimes. \n\n\n\nIn all this it’s important to remember that the military are a public institution and depend on taxpayers. The public has a right to understand the costs and consequences of maintaining a labour force for war-fighting\, especially one that works closely with major arms companies and contributes heavily to global carbon emissions. \n\n\n\nENGLAND’S MILITARY HEARTLAND introduces a ten-year investigation of the military training area on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire\, England and explores what it means to live next to a military base. The book questions how war blurs the boundaries between military and civilian\, and what can or cannot be addressed by the use of lethal violence\, sanctioned and organised by the state. To explore this we bring together a group of scholars and activists\, working on land justice and military ecological damage\, to think about how we resist the drive to war at home. \n\n\n\nWhat is it like to live next door to a British Army base? England’s military heartland provides an eye-opening account of the sprawling military presence on Salisbury Plain\, drawing on a wide range of voices from both sides of the divide. \n\n\n\nTargeted for expansion under government plans to reorganise the UK’s global defence estate\, the Salisbury ‘super garrison’ offers a unique opportunity to explore the impact of the military footprint in a particular place. But this is no ordinary environment: as well as being the world-famous site of Stonehenge\, the grasslands of Salisbury Plain are home to rare plants and wildlife. \n\n\n\nHow does the army take responsibility for conserving this unique landscape as it trains young men and women to use lethal weapons? Are its claims that its presence is a positive for the environment anything more than propaganda? This book investigates these questions against the backdrop of a historic landscape inscribed with the legacy of perpetual war. \n\n\n\nUrgent\, important\, and poignantly recounted.’— Laleh Khalili\, author of Sinews of War and Trade \n\n\n\n‘Exposes the remarkable extent to which militarisation is shaping not only the lives of humans\, but the character and quality of the land on which they and other creatures live.’— Cynthia Enloe\, author of Twelve Feminist Lessons of War \n\n\n\nOUR SPEAKERS: \n\n\n\nSaskia Papadakis is a social researcher with expertise in the UK environmental movement\, anti-racism and British Black Power\, and socio-spatial inequalities in the UK. She organises across grassroots migrants’ rights groups in London. \n\n\n\nAntonia Dawes is a lecturer and writer at King’s College London. She works on racism\, antiracism and cultural theory. Her first book Race Talk (2020) is about race and racism in southern Italy. At this event she will speak on her new book England’s Military Heartland\, co-authored with Vron Ware\, Mitra Pariyar and Alice Cree. \n\n\n\nKhem Rogaly researches the political economy of the military and its role in climate crisis. His most recent report for the thinktank Common Wealth explored the potential for a just transition away from military production through interviews with workers. He will speak about the Khaki Economy in England’s Military Heartland in relation to the escalating arms race today. \n\n\n\nRachael Milliner is a member of the Museum of Enclosure\, an emergent\, itinerant\, internationalist\, political education project collecting oral histories of dispossession in England. Representing the project\, they will discuss how access to enclosed and militarised land is vital to performing memory work and relational accountability\, calling for further interventions in dominant British property culture. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-talk-englands-military-heartland/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/9781526174840.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250926T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250926T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250826T165502Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250826T165524Z UID:69699-1758913200-1758920400@housmans.com SUMMARY:MAGAZINE LAUNCH: DEATH KIT ISSUE 2 DESCRIPTION:Death Kit celebrates the launch of their second issue with a party at Housmans on 26th September. Readings from Gabrielle Sicam\, Josh Abbey\, Michael Hampton\, and more!\n\n\n\nTICKETS: \n\n\n\nThis is an externall organised event\, tickets are free and can be book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/death-kit-issue-2-launch-tickets-1548375886959?aff=oddtdtcreator \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/magazine-launch-death-kit-issue-2/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/PARTY-POSTER.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251008T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251008T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250910T142854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T132245Z UID:70091-1759950000-1759955400@housmans.com SUMMARY:SOLD OUT: 'The Feminist Art of Walking'\, Rose Morag in discussion with Anna Minton DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome feminist writer and academic Morag Rose to the shop to discuss her brilliant and essential new book The Feminist Art of Walking; a vital intervention in the growing field of ‘literature about walking.’ \n\n\n\nThe allure of the city is powerful\, but not universally accessible. For many women\, it can be exclusionary\, exploitative and dangerous. In The Feminist Art of Walking\, Morag Rose shows how women can and do claim their place in the public space. \n\n\n\nSetting off to explore cities and towns across Britain\, she traces local histories and personal stories and attunes herself to the wider resonances of women’s rights amidst alienating capitalist cityscapes. Craving connection and comradeship\, she discovers a unique and inclusive approach to walking\, celebrating diverse women who transform walking into an art form and act of resistance. \n\n\n\nBy experiencing the pleasures and pains of pedestrian exploration\, she shows us how to reconnect with and become enchanted by our streets. \n\n\n\nOUR SPEAKERS: \n\n\n\nMorag Rose is a walking artist activist and academic. She is founder of the Loiterers Resistance Movement and a senior lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Liverpool. Her work focuses on public space\, regeneration\, access\, equality\, psychogeographies and the power of creative\, communal walking. In discussion with Morag we welcome back to Housmans Anna Minton. Anna spent a decade in journalism\, and went on to write ‘Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-First Century City ‘ and ‘Big Capital: Who is London for?’. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\nPLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED TO A WAITING LIST PLEASE EMAIL AL@HOUSMANS.COM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-the-feminist-art-of-walking-by-rose-morag/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Chosen-design-edit-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251011T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251011T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250917T160800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250917T161058Z UID:70424-1760209200-1760214600@housmans.com SUMMARY:ACTIVIST TALK: 'ALL HANDS ON DECK' with Jan Goodey DESCRIPTION:We welcome legendary activist Jan Goodey to the shop to help celebrate the launch of his essential new book All Hands On Deck: Climate Activism and the way ahead\, out now from PM Press. A member of Just Stop Oil\, and among those imprisoned for his climate actions\, Jan is a seasoned and courageous activist. For more than 30 years\, he has been on the front lines of direct-action environmentalism and anti-capitalism in the UK. Jan has helped shut down offensive companies and been part of successful protest camps to save Britain’s ancient woodlands. But\, as he argues in his new pamphlet\, it’s not enough. Climate breakdown continues unabated; the gap between haves and have-nots is growing. \n\n\n\nThis is a free event. Please book a free ticket below. You can also reserve a copy of the book\, or choose the ‘solidarity’ option to make a voluntary donation to Housmans. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/activist-talk-all-hands-on-deck-with-jan-goodey/ CATEGORIES:In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Copy-of-Glasgow.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251013T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251013T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250926T121233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250926T123336Z UID:70553-1760382000-1760385600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Autonomy Now present 'Mutant Ecologies: how capitalism is reconfiguring the very texture of life' with Erica Borg and Amedeo Policante DESCRIPTION:Autonomy Now present ‘Mutant Ecologies: how capitalism is reconfiguring the very texture of life’ with Erica Borg and Amedeo Policante\n\n\n\n\n\nMutant Ecologies: Manufacturing Life in the Age of Genomic Capital Ecologies  (Pluto Press) traces the spinning of new synthetic threads into the web of life. It is a critical cartography of the shifting landscapes of capital accumulation conjured by recent developments in genomic science\, genome editing and the biotech industry. \n\n\n\nCRISPR crops\, fast-growing salmons\, heat-resistant Slick™ cows\, Friendly™ Mosquitoes\, humanised mice\, pigs growing human organs – these are but a few of the dazzling new life-forms that have recently emerged from corporate and university laboratories around the world\, all promising to lubricate the circuits of capital accumulation in distinct ways. The deliberate induction of genetic mutations is increasingly central to business operations in a number of sectors\, from agriculture to pharmaceuticals. \n\n\n\nWhile the Nobel Committee recently proclaimed the life sciences to have entered ‘a new epoch’\, the authors show how these technological innovations continue to operate within a socio-historical context defined by the iron rules of capitalist competition and exploitation. Capital no longer contents itself with simply appropriating the living bodies of plants and animals. It purposefully designs their internal metabolism\, and in that way it redesigns the countless living vectors that constitute the global biosphere. It is driving a biological revolution\, which will ripple through the everyday lives of people everywhere. \n\n\n\nErica Borg is a geographer and political ecologist based at King’s College\, London. Their research focuses on the relations between capitalism\, colonialism\, patriarchy and ecological crisis. \n\n\n\nAmedeo Policante is a Researcher at the Nova University of Lisbon. His writings interrogate the nexus of extraction\, exploitation and expropriation that fuels the contemporary world market. He is the author of two books: The Pirate Myth and The New Mercenaries. \n\n\n\nHosted by https://autonomynow.noblogs.org \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/autonomy-now-present-mutant-ecologies-how-capitalism-is-reconfiguring-the-very-texture-of-life-with-erica-borg-and-amedeo-policante/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/9780745344522.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251015T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251015T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250910T153442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250917T154708Z UID:70103-1760554800-1760560200@housmans.com SUMMARY:DOUBLE LAUNCH: Danny Hayward AND Matthew Goulish DESCRIPTION:Housmans and both are worse are delighted to be launching two new excellent essay collections\, Training Exercises by Danny Hayward and Kingfisher by Matthew Goulish. ‘both are worse‘ publish short prose books that make an engaging comment on the state of poetry and/or poetics\, stretches some horizons\, pushes out beyond an impasse\, heaps up obstructions\, or makes life more difficult or liveable in any way that seems compelling\, vital\, or beautiful. Studies of single authors\, histories of communities or forms\, manifestos\, treatises on metre\, philosophies of phonation\, provocations of every stripe and blotch\, dream diaries\, long jokes\, spreadsheets or inscrutable swirls of one-dimensional Venn diagrams are all possible: anything that works. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOKS:\n\n\n\nDanny Hayward‘s Training Exercises:\n\n\n\n‘Organized violence committed on ordinary speech’ is therapy for those who don’t believe in literature as value. Training Exercises is an unpacking of that dictum: seven short essays\, letters\, reports and anti-biographies written to overcome the feeling of resistance to the defacement of what strikes us as true. An anti-purge written out by lipstick or hammer\, scrawled over the top of itself and run through a translation program that turns everything upside inside down\, its pieces include: a polemic against catharsis; a letter to the poet Dom Hale on his book Seizures; and a series of on-the-spot reports on the UK Illegal Migration Bill\, East London poetry readings\, the politics of the war in Ukraine\, and a conversation about the meaning of damage in contemporary literature. \n\n\n\n‘First you learn to write down your ideas\, then you learn again how to write all of your lurid political and intellectual and intimate disappointments and all of your childhood hopes over the top of them’. Jack Spicer scrawled the name of his book in pink lipstick on the cover of the academic journal he had published in: Training Exercises scrawls itself on top of that. \n\n\n\nDanny Hayward‘s most recent poetry collection is Loading Terminal (87 Press\, 2022). More recent work\, along with an earlier collection of critical essays\, can be accessed at Free Trials \n\n\n\nMatthew Goulish’s Kingfisher: \n\n\n\nThe dramaturg\, writer\, and teacher Matthew Goulish reflects on the practice of reading poetry\, of reading just one poem: ‘Kingfisher’ by Ed Roberson. How to attend\, to follow the course of poem as a waterway\, to recognise in its surface tension impending drops\, hidden obstacles\, and disguised turns? How also and at the same time to attend to an interruption – an accidental sighting – with equal curiosity? Sincerity follows the lines of the poem inside and outside\, inward and outward\, drawing in a series of correspondences and correspondents\, roots and sources\, until reading becomes a collective endeavor; the words of Ed Roberson\, Michelle Sherburne\, Renee Gladman\, and Lyn Hejinian are also here. As the subject of this particular poem surfaces\, to catch a glimpse is not so obviously a gift: the practice of catching sight might also be injurious to another’s freedom. And so we follow the trail of the poem through Smuggler’s Notch. \n\n\n\nAbout the author: Matthew Goulish co-founded Every house has a door in 2008 with Lin Hixson. He is dramaturg\, writer\, and sometimes performer with the company. He was a founding member of Goat Island\, the Chicago-based performance group that existed from 1987 to 2009. His books include 39 microlectures – in proximity of performance (Routledge\, 2001)\, The Brightest Thing in the World – 3 Lectures from the Institute of Failure (Green Lantern Press\, 2012)\, Work from Memory: In Response to In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust\, co-authored with Dan Beachy-Quick (Ahsahta Press\, 2012) and Pitch and Revelation—Reconfigurations of Reading\, Poetry\, and Philosophy through the Work of Jay Wright\, co-authored with Will Daddario (Punctum Books\, 2022). His essays have appeared in Richard Rezac Address (University of Chicago Press\, 2018)\, Propositions in the Making – Experiments in a Whiteheadian Laboratory (Rowman & Littlefield\, 2020)\, and many other journals and anthologies. He teaches in the Writing Program of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/double-launch-danny-haywood-and-matthew-goulish/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Untitled-design-3-edited.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250910T165440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T165505Z UID:70135-1760641200-1760646600@housmans.com SUMMARY:the87press & Housmans Bookshop present: Hummingbirds 7.0\, a literary salon DESCRIPTION:Join the87press for a very special Hummingbirds event featuring Alia Al Ghussain and Rayya El Zein to celebrate the launch of Filling the Head: Listening to Rap in Arabic (Indiana University Press\, 2025). \n\n\n\nBased on ethnographic research in Ramallah (Palestine)\, Amman (Jordan)\, and Beirut (Lebanon)\, Filling the Head reveals how youths in these cities have maneuvered the challenges of making music while also navigating shifting geopolitical landscapes. Through these everyday experiences of being moved by music or ideas\, Rayya El Zein explores how ordinary patterns of motion and emotion provide a space for political engagement when spectacular political movements like protests\, strikes\, or revolutions feel far away\, forced\, or otherwise impossible. In contrast to existing narratives that equate rap with popular political resistance against oppressive regimes\, she argues instead for affective engagement through istifzaz―provocation or surprise―as well as yearning. Within this avant-garde genre\, there is no design to reach the masses with a political message; in fact\, as El Zein demonstrates\, the refusal of artists to confine their lyrical or musical experimentation to an ethos of resistance creates an aesthetic whose lack of singular politics defines it. \n\n\n\nHummingbirds is a literary salon curated by the87press aiming to hold space for authors and interlocutors to have conversations about recently published work. This iteration charts a new thread in that conversation which aims to bring academic publishing to a community audience. \n\n\n\nHost: Azad Ashim Sharma\, Founding Director of the87press. \n\n\n\nInterlocutor: Alia Al Ghussain \n\n\n\nAuthor: Rayya El Zein \n\n\n\nTICKETS CAN BE BOOKED HERE: \n\n\nRegister on EventbriteShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/the87press-housmans-bookshop-present-hummingbirds-7-0-a-literary-salon/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Discussion group,Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251022T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251022T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20251007T144059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T144903Z UID:71748-1761159600-1761165000@housmans.com SUMMARY:HOUSMANS x FESTIVAL OF URBAN LIBERATION DESCRIPTION:Reclaiming The Public Space: Community Centres as Hubs of Solidarity & Action\n\n\n\n\n\nAs part of the FESTIVAL OF URBAN LIBERATION (F.O.U.L) we welcome a series of thinkers and activists whose praxis is rooted community organising. \n\n\n\nTime is incorporated in a consumerist manner putting life in a private bubble shaped in the next viral trend. Public space is gradually lost under the dismantling of communities and broken social bonds. Community centers are one of the few remaining grounds of unmediated direct communication and social creation. The need to preserve them is not a necessity but a shout of solidarity and fraternity in a rapidly dehumanising individualistic world. \n\n\n\nWe call everyone to share their experience about community centers and interconnect. With comrades from TRAs and community centers in Southwark\, Dashwood community center (Thamesmead Housing Action) and Pamela and Malo from Fortaleza Latina and TFFB (Tottenham Family Fight Back) \n\n\n\nThis is a free event but please RSVP below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/housmans-x-festival-of-urban-liberation/ CATEGORIES:Discussion group,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/hausmans.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250910T164157Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T164200Z UID:70128-1761246000-1761256800@housmans.com SUMMARY:POETRY Imogen Cassels & Fintan Calpin DESCRIPTION:We’re extremely excited for the next Housmans poetry series featuring a double launch for two brilliant poets. We will have the frighteningly sharp\, inimitable Imogen Cassels launching her latest pamphlet\, Peach Machine (from The Last Books) and the terrifyingly brilliant\, irreplaceable Fintan Calpin launching his Terminal City (recently published by Veer2). \n\n\n\nTHIS IS A FREE EVENT. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO BYOB. SEE YOU THERE! \n\n\n\n\n\n \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/poetry-imogen-cassels-fintan-calpin/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/tickets-5.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251029T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251029T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250930T105154Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250930T105542Z UID:70878-1761764400-1761769800@housmans.com SUMMARY:An Evening with Richard Norton-Taylor DESCRIPTION:Richard Norton-Taylor is a living legend: on staff at The Guardian since the early 70s\, and now working at Declassified UK\, he is most known as one of the finest\, and uncompromising\, journalists working today. Housmans are delighted that he has agreed to join for an evening to reflect on his career\, on the state of modern warfare and surveillance culture and the relationships between state surveillance programmes and the modern media\, as covered in his recent book The State of Secrecy (copies of which will be available on the evening).  \n\n\n\nRichard will talk for around an 45 minutes to an hour\, followed by a Q&A and a book signing. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please select the ‘unwaged’ option. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/an-evening-with-richard-norton-taylor/ CATEGORIES:In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/avif:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2200.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251030T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251030T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20251020T094747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251020T094750Z UID:72604-1761850800-1761859800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Poetry: A Celebration of Jack Spicer DESCRIPTION:For the second installment of our October poery series we once again celebrate the much underappreciated 20th century American poet Jack Spicer\, after our sold out event for the uncollected poems last year. This time we launch two books: the collected letters and lectures\,which will be either read from\, or responded to by\, a host of some of the most exciting poets working in the UK and Ireland today. \n\n\n\nThis is a Free Event. Feel free to BYOB. \n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/poetry-a-celebration-of-jack-spicer/ CATEGORIES:Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Poetry-Series-spicer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251103T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251103T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20251015T150327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251015T150330Z UID:72483-1762196400-1762201800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: WE ARE STILL HERE: STUDENT VOICES FROM GAZA DESCRIPTION:Housmans are honored to be hosting the launch event for this courageous book. \n\n\n\n We Are Still Here is an anthology of raw\, unfiltered\, and courageous voices featuring short and long stories\, poems\, essays\, and testimonies written by students from Gaza’s universities\, edited by Prof. Zahid Pranjol and Dr. Jacob Norris published by Daraja Press. Throughout the evening we host readings from Gazan students\, both via video recording and live in the shop\, followed by an open discussion with the book’s editor Zahid Pranjol. \n\n\n\nAlongside the book\, we will be selling Palestinian food\, tote bags and stickers that support local Palestinian businesses in London. \n\n\n\nThis is a free event. Please RSVP below. \n\n\n\n\n\n \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-we-are-still-here-student-voices-from-gaza/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image-5.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251106T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251106T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20251013T200720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251015T141522Z UID:72034-1762455600-1762461000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni (in conversation with Helen Hester) DESCRIPTION:Housmans are very excited to welcome Dr Alyssa Battistoni to the shop to discuss her vital work of political theory\, Free Gifts: Capitalism and The Politics of Nature. Capitalism is typically treated as a force for relentless commodification. Yet it consistently fails to place value on vital aspects of the nonhuman world\, whether carbon emissions or entire ecosystems. In Free Gifts\, Alyssa Battistoni explores capitalism’s persistent failure to value nature\, arguing that the key question is not the moral issue of why some kinds of nature shouldn’t be commodified\, but the economic puzzle of why they haven’t been. To understand contemporary ecological problems from biodiversity collapse to climate change\, she contends\, we have to understand how some things come to have value under capitalism—and how others do not. To help us do so\, Battistoni recovers and reinterprets the idea of the free gift of nature used by classical economic thinkers to describe what we gratuitously obtain from the natural world\, and builds on Karl Marx’s critique of political economy to show how capitalism fundamentally treats nature as free for the taking. This novel theory of capitalism’s relationship to nature not only helps us understand contemporary ecological breakdown\, but also casts capitalism’s own core dynamics in a new light. \n\n\n\nBattistoni addresses four different instances of the free gift in political economic thought\, each in a specific domain: natural agents in industry\, pollution in the environment\, reproductive labor in the household\, and natural capital in the biosphere. In so doing\, she offers new readings of major twentieth-century thinkers\, including Friedrich Hayek\, Simone de Beauvoir\, Garrett Hardin\, Silvia Federici\, and Ronald Coase. Ultimately\, she offers a novel account of freedom for our ecologically troubled present\, developing a materialist existentialism to argue that capitalism limits our ability to be responsible for our relationships to the natural world\, and imagining how we might live freely while valuing nature’s gifts. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to also welcome to Housmans Professor Helen Hester\, author of\, among other brilliant titles\, shop favourite\, Xenofeminism\, to interview Alyssa. \n\n\n\nOUR SPEAKERS \n\n\n\nAlyssa Battistoni is assistant professor of political science at Barnard College. She is the coauthor of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. Her writing has appeared in The Nation\, The Guardian\, Boston Review\, n+1\, Dissent\, The New Statesman\, Jacobin\, and New Left Review. \n\n\n\nHelen Hester is Professor of Gender\, Technology and Cultural Politics at the University of West London. Her research interests include technofeminism\, social reproduction\, and theories of work\, and she’s a member of the international working group Laboria Cuboniks. Her books include Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex (SUNY Press\, 2014)\, Xenofeminism (Polity\, 2018)\, and Post-Work (Bloomsbury). \n\n\n\nThe two will talk for around 45 minutes-1hr followed by an open discussion and book signing. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please choose the ‘unwaged’ option. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-free-gifts-capitalism-and-the-politics-of-nature-with-alyssa-battistoni-in-conversation-with-helen-hester/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Discussion group,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/avif:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/9780691263465.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251108T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251108T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250917T162720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251103T134542Z UID:70436-1762628400-1762633800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Bourgeois Coldness: Henrike Kohpeiß in conversation with Lilly Markaki DESCRIPTION:Foregrounding affect\, this timely book provides an inestimable philosophical argument for the centrality of Blackness in critical examinations of capitalism’s violence.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nDenise Ferreira da Silva\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nElegant and erudite in equal measure\, this book will stand as a landmark diagnosis of the practices of denial in our time.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAndreas Malm\n\n\n\nWe are delighted to welcome an incredibly exciting scholar\, Henrike Kohpeiß\, to the shop to launch the new English translation of her book Bourgeois Coldness. \n\n\n\n‘Bourgeois coldness’ refers to an affective strategy that offers an explanation for how self-preservation works. Bourgeois coldness is one of the most advanced affective and aesthetic forms of preserving the structure of the colonial status quo. It creates an affective shelter in the world\, unencroached upon by the immediate consequences of its many catastrophes. It functions like air conditioning – a complex technology which reliably stabilises the climate until those inside consider it natural. Bourgeois spaces – institutional and affective – stay cool and pleasant. But outside it’s burning.Canonical critical theory by Adorno and Horkheimer enters a dialogue with Black studies through Hartman and Moten. \n\n\n\nHenrike will be in conversation with Dr Lilly Markaki from Royal Holloway\, University of London. They’ll discuss the text and it’s key conceits for around 45 minutes-1hr\, followed by an open discussion. We look forward to seeing you there! \n\n\n\nOur Speakers: \n\n\n\nHenrike Kohpeiß is a philosopher in Berlin\, working on social and political philosophy\, critical theory\, affect studies\, Black studies and feminist philosophy. She regularly publishes work in academic journals and criticism in magazines. She organises and hosts events in Berlin\, such as the conversation series ‘Feelings at the end of the world’ at Volksbühne. Bourgeois Coldness is her first book\, and was published in German in 2023 by Campus Verlag. \n\n\n\nLilly Markaki is Lecturer in Race and Culture in Film and Media at Royal Holloway\, University of London. Bridging critical theory\, visual culture studies\, media theory\, and Black radical and anti-colonial thought\, their work investigates the relationship between aesthetics and politics\, exploring how insurgent practices—whether philosophical\, poetic\, or visual—can generate forms of solidarity that unsettle colonial-modern ontologies and anthropocentric logics. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please choose the ‘unwaged’ option. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/launch-bourgeois-coldness-with-henrike-kohpeis-divided-publishing/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/BC_cover_web_v2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251112T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251112T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20251006T150912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251006T150915Z UID:71660-1762974000-1762979400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Lauch: THE SPECTRAL WOMAN with Ciara Cremin DESCRIPTION:‘A radical feminisation of the world’ – McKenzie Wark \n\n\n\nHousmans is delighted to welcome Ciara Cremin all the way from New Zealand to discuss her mind-blowing book The Spectral Woman. \n\n\n\nWhat if the feminine holds the power to undo domination itself? In The Spectral Woman\, Ciara Cremin reveals the feminine as the force which can abolish the rigid categories of sex and gender that sustain class exploitation\, androcentrism and repression. With bold\, incisive arguments\, she explores the transformative potential of feminine jouissance\, offering a radical path towards emancipation. \n\n\n\nRejecting the myths of diversity\, difference and individualism\, she confronts the illusions of liberal humanism\, arguing for a utopian femininity that challenges the psychic impairments perpetuated by capitalist\, colonial and patriarchal systems. \n\n\n\nIn a world haunted by the spectre of the transfeminine figure\, Cremin sheds light on the profound potential to decolonise the unconscious and reimagine a future beyond oppression. The Spectral Woman is a bold manifesto for those willing to interrogate the structures that bind us\, and envision their abolition. \n\n\n\nCiara Cremin lectures in Sociology at the University of Auckland. She is a critical and cultural theorist whose work diagnoses the socio-economic\, cultural\, and subjective condition of late capitalism\, and the author of several books\, including Man-Made Woman and The Future is Feminine. She will be in conversation with Professor Peter Bloom from the University of Essex. They will discuss key arguments from the books for around 45 minutes-1hour followed by a group discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please choose the ‘unwaged’ option. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-lauch-the-spectral-woman-with-ciara-cremin/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_2025-10-06_155829.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251114T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251114T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235710 CREATED:20250926T123035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250926T123227Z UID:70571-1763146800-1763152200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Autonomy Now present 'Love and Revolution: A Politics for the Deep Commons' with Matt York DESCRIPTION:Autonomy Now present ‘Love and Revolution: A Politics for the Deep Commons’ with Matt York\n\n\n\n\n\nBased on award-winning research\, Love and Revolution (Manchester University Press\, Contemporary Anarchist Studies series\, 2025) brings classical and contemporary anarchist thought into a mutually beneficial dialogue with a global cross-section of ecological\, anti-capitalist\, feminist and anti-racist activists – discussing real-life examples of the loving-caring relations that underpin many contemporary struggles. Such a (r)evolutionary love is discovered to be a common embodied experience among the activists contributing to this collective vision\, manifested as a radical solidarity\, as political direct action\, as long-term processes of struggle\, and as a deeply relational more-than-human ethics. This book provides an essential resource for all those interested in building a free society grounded in solidarity and care\, and offers a timely contribution to contemporary movement discourse. \n\n\n\n‘I recommend that anyone who is serious about striving for social change read Matt York’s spot-on book and consider embracing its philosophy of a permanent revolution of love and community. This book reflects the core values that have guided my half century of organising for liberation.’Keith McHenry\, co-founder of the global Food Not Bombs movement\, author of The Anarchist Cookbook and Hungry for Peace \n\n\n\n‘In Love and revolution\, Matt York develops a theory of love grounded in activist practices from real movements for social and political change. This book is essential reading for anyone holding on to hope for the commons in a world of privatisation.’Richard Gilman-Opalsky\, Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy\, University of Illinois\, author of The Communism of Love \n\n\n\nMatt York lectures in political theory and philosophy at University College Cork. \n\n\n\nHosted by https://autonomynow.noblogs.org \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... 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