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Discurso y verdad

Conferencias sobre el coraje de decirlo todo. Grenoble, 1982 / Berkeley, 1983

Durante años hemos leído, como si fueran la transcripción fiel de su palabra, las conocidas conferencias pronunciadas por Michel Foucaulten 1983 en la Universidad de California en Berkeley. Pero se trataba sólo de piezas parciales, de resúmenes. La presente edición incluye, por primera vez en ...

Revista La Maleta de Portbou, Nº 53, año 2022

O problema de provar

obra que o leitor tem em mãos reúne os mais diversos temas probatórios. Ela compreende uma cuidadosa apresentação de conceitos fundamentais ao tratamento epistemológico da prova judicial, bem como uma exposição perspicaz de desafios que ainda carecem de soluções adequadas nos sistemas jurídicos concretos. A ...

Homo viator

prolegómenos a una metafísica de la esperanza

'Homo Viator' agrupa una serie de conferencias, estudios y escritos inéditos que representan lo mejor del pensamiento del filósofo parisino. Resulta interesante saber que la mayoría de estos textos fueron pensados y redactados durante la ocupación nazi de Francia. En sus páginas, sin embargo, no ...

Coloso

auge y decadencia del imperio americano

¿Es Estados Unidos el imperio del nuevo mundo? El gobierno estadounidense lo niega rotundamente. A pesar de la conquista de dos estados soberanos en un plazo de dos años, a pesar de la presencia de 750 bases o instalaciones militares en más de 130 países ...

Just keep buying

proven ways to save money and build your wealth

Everyone faces big questions when it comes to money: questions about saving, investing, and whether you're getting it right with your finances. Unfortunately, many of the answers provided by the financial industry have been based on belief and conjecture rather than data and evidence-until ...

The end of the everything bubble

why $75 trillion of investor wealth is in mortal jeopardy

There are crashes and then there are Crashes. But what turns an ordinary downturn into an era-defining crisis? What makes the difference between an event like the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and a brief bear market? The answer lies in financial exuberance: speculative mania ...

Access rules

freeing data from big tech for a better future

A powerful and urgent call to action: to improve our lives and our societies, we must demand open access to data for all. Information is power, and the time is now for digital liberation. Access Rules mounts a strong and hopeful argument for how informational ...

Going remote

how the flexible work economy can improve our lives and our cities

A leading urban economist's hopeful study of how shifts to remote work can change all of our lives for the better. As COVID-19 descended upon the country in 2020, millions of American office workers transitioned to working from home to reduce risk of infection ...

Autopsy of a crime lab

exposing the flaws in forensics

This book exposes the dangerously imperfect forensic evidence that we rely on for criminal convictions. "That's not my fingerprint, your honor," said the defendant, after FBI experts reported a "100-percent identification." The FBI was wrong. It is shocking how often they are. Autopsy of ...

Gendering criminology

crime and justice today

Gendering Criminology provides a contemporary guide for understanding the role of gender in criminal engagement and experiences as well as reactions to these offenses among laypersons and agents of social control. The textbook provides evidence for the argument that gender socially situates people in their ...

Half-earth socialism

a plan to save the future from extinction, climate change, and pandemics

Over the next generation, humanity will confront a dystopian future of climate disaster and mass extinction. Yet the only "solutions" on offer are toothless cap-and-trade programs, catastrophic geoengineering schemes, and privatized conservation, which will do nothing to reverse the damage suffered by the biosphere. Indeed ...

Rentier capitalism

who owns the economy, and who pays for it?

How did Britain's economy become a bastion of inequality? The author of 'The New Enclosure' provides a forensic examination and sweeping critique of early-21st-century capitalism. Brett Christophers styles this as 'rentier capitalism', in which ownership of key types of scarce assets - such as land ...

Climate change as class war

building socialism on a warming planet

The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of 'believing science' or individual 'carbon footprints' - it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve. In this ground breaking class ...

Silicon Values

the future of free speech under surveillance capitalism

The Internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond the control of money or politics, but today corporations and platforms exercise more control over our ability to access information and share knowledge to a greater extent than any state. In Silicon Values ...

The knowledge economy

Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it is the radically innovative vanguard known as the knowledge economy. This book explores ...

The future is degrowth

a guide to a world beyond capitalism

Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future Is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ...

Automation and the future of work

Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living on the cusp of an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end of work as we know it. But does the much-discussed "rise of the robots" really explain ...

Platform socialism

how to reclaim our digital future from big tech

'Ground-breaking and ambitious' - Nick Srnicek, author of Platform Capitalism Whoever controls the platforms, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete proposals for a digital economy that expands our freedom. Powerful tech companies now own the digital infrastructure of twenty-first century ...

The solutions are already here

strategies for ecological revolution from below

Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice? Peter Gelderloos argues that international governmental responses to the climate emergency are structurally incapable of solving the crisis. But there is hope. Across the world, grassroots networks of local communities are working to ...