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When Xiao Hai turned fifteen, his family paid a vocational-school teacher 1,200 yuan to find him a factory job in Shenzhen. So began fifteen years spent moving between the garment mills and electronics factories of China's fast-growing southern cities. Adrift in the South is a memoir of life as a migrant labourer in the twenty-first […]
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Kate Bayliss in conversation with Adrienne Buller PRIVATISING HUMANITY is a powerful exposé of how finance turns our basic human needs into assets. We have entered a new era of turbo-charged financial extraction. Having amassed huge reserves, global finance capital is seeking out fresh areas for profitable investments. Virtually all aspects of our lives are […]
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The Word in Others' Mouths: Susan Rudy and Shelly Harder in conversation Susan Rudy and Shelly Harder come together to launch new chapbooks from Ottawa's above/ground press. Rudy's Consequences gathers a thousand sentences — from feminist theorists, queer poets, songs, private conversations, and decades of notebooks — stripping them of hierarchy and ownership, letting Brossard […]
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Aristotle, Hegel and Marx: Michael Lazarus In Conversation with Bruno Leipold Karl Marx gave us not just a critique of the political economy of capital but a way of confronting the impoverished ethical quality of life we face under capitalism. Interpreting Marx anew as an ethical thinker, Absolute Ethical Life provides crucial resources for understanding […]
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The question is no longer if we should legalise drugs. It's: what happens when we do? The future of drugs is here, and it's dangerously unequal. Over the last decade, the status quo around drugs has collapsed. Drugs once sold as safe cures have been revealed as ineffective or dangerous, while substances criminalised for generations […]
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A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. This is a work of breathtaking scholarship. We are delighted to welcome its author, Benjamin A Saltzman, to Housmans for its UK launch. He will be in conversation with Revd Dr Ayla Lepine. Why […]
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COME AND CELEBRATE THE LAUNCH OF A BOLD NEW POETRY MAGAZINE AT HOUSMANS. FEATURING LUKE ROBERTS, HARRIET ROSE AND OTHERS. This is a free event, please book your tickets below. Feel free to BYOB. :)
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Join us for a conversation between two of the most exciting theorists of the digital realm, Dominic Pettman and Alfie Bown We are delighted to welcome our friends Everyday Analysis back to Housmans for what promises to be another stimulating reflection on the agonies and aporias of contemporary culture. This time we have Dominic Pettman […]
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BOOK TALK: Absolute Ethical Life: Michael Lazarus in conversation with Bruno Leipold
