Books

Book reviews (non-fiction literature about media, public, big tech and film).

  • The sweat of labour

    The book Move Fast and Break Things criticises Google, Facebook and Amazon sharply, but is at the same time partly romantic and crude.

  • The death of nature

    By combining a sociological approach to the climate crisis with examples drawn from literature and film, interesting new horizons are revealed in this British…

  • The Muslim brotherhood and the West

    In his latest book, Martyn Frampton argues that the Muslim Brotherhood is a contradictory establishment, but its contradictions are also part of its successes.

  • Free markets are an illusion

    CAPITALISM: John Mikler argues that the world's largest companies are economically superior to their competitors to such an extent it is wrong to speak…

  • A modern view of Africa

    AFRICA: Editor and professor Nic Cheeseman succeeds in his goal of offering a new and modern understanding of the African state.

  • A time for everything and nothing

    When our faith in grand narratives erodes as our lives become increasingly hectic, time itself loses its direction and meaning.

  • Life without thought

    A past to present look at big tech’s influence over society and how we can fight their pervasive power.

  • A moral duty to tell

    Israeli lawyer Michael Sfard presents a new take on human rights battles within the occupied Palestinian territories.

  • An unscrupulous empire about to fall

    In his new book, Alfred W. McCoy collects his multiple analyses of the US as an empire, and describes how violence practiced in the…

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