Books

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

  • Global cloud capitalism

    CAPITALISM: 'Techno-feudalism' is a global expansion with an omnivorous, boundless development of non-material phenomena. According to Yanis Varoufakis, social democracy can no longer make…

  • A mother’s life and passion: Anna Politkovskaya

    RUSSIA: Anna Politkovskaya's daughter: "My greatest wish is to experience Russia as a thriving, free and developed country, not desolate, poor and militarised."

  • Being in the opposing position

    ŽIŽEK: Despite being a public intellectual for at least 30 years, there has been no previous discussion of Slavoj Žižek's thought as multifaceted and…

  • Have we as a civilisation met ourselves at the door?

    IDENTITY: Do we all have some kind of doppelganger that expresses our most extreme thoughts and attitudes? In this book, Naomi Klein takes a…

  • We can all be like Paul

    PASOLINI: The apostle Paul shows the revolutionary power of fighting for a cause that defies the usual course of contemporary life. Paul becomes the…

  • Citizen journalists

    GAZA: Sheikh Jarrah describes how the Israeli authorities subsequently sought to silence the journalists. Here is a topical book - in connection with the…

  • The military ambitions of oil states

    WEAPONS: There are a number of developments in the three oil states of Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar, which Jean-Loup Samaan explores in his…

  • It is not possible to wipe out Hamas

    HAMAS: Leila Seurat provides a good basis for understanding what went wrong on 7 October, when Hamas made a drastic change of course. The…

  • Russia’s race to the bottom

    RUSSIA: In this book, Alexander Etkind states that Russia is the least equal, the most militarised, and the most carbonised of all the world's…

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