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The Sea in the Greek Imagination - Marie-Claire Beaulieu
Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Caribbean - Edited by Michael Richardson
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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation - Cory Doctorow
Microverses: Observations from a Shattered Present - Dylan Riley
Mad World: War, Movies, Sex - Slavoj Zizek
Mistaken Identity: Mass Movements and Racial Ideology - Asad Haider
The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture - Mark Bould
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Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism - Phil Jones
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Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent - Katherine Angel
Set Fear on Fire: The Feminist Call that Set the Americas Ablaze - LASTESIS
The Butcher and the Wren - Alaina Urquhart
Paris in Turmoil: A City Between Past and Future - Eric Hazan
Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon - Mark McGurl
Love: A History in Five Fantasies - Barbara H. Rosenwein
Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space - Fred Scharmen
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When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach - Ashlee Vance
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Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (and How We Win It Back) - Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams
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The Scent of the Father: Essay on the Limits of Life and Science in Sub-Saharan Africa - Valentin-Yves Mudimbe
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The Politics of Time: Imagining African Becomings - Edited by Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr
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To Write the Africa World - edited by Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr