Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
'It's often said that books are compulsory reading, but this book really is compulsory. You cannot understand slavery, or British Empire, without it' Sathnam Sanghera Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944 study revealed the connection ...Show more
Capitalism and the Camera - Essays on Photography and Extraction by Kevin Coleman; Daniel James
$39.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
A provocative exploration of photography's relationship to capitalism, from leading theorists of visual culture. Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx and Frederick Engels's The Communist Manifesto. Taking the intertwined development of ca ...Show more
Close to the Subject : Selected Works by Daniel Browning
$34.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
This book is a collected works of one of Australia’s most accomplished media personalities. Chronicling his career since 2007, Close to the Subject presents a selection of pieces from Daniel Browning’s stellar career as a journalist, radio broadcaster, critic and interviewer. Alongside conversations wit ...Show more
Committed Writings by Albert Camus; Justin O'Brien (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This volume contains some of Camus's most powerful political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the world. 'Letters to a German Friend' was Camus' first wartime intervention, written in 1943 in order 'to make our battle more effective'. 'Reflections on the Guill ...Show more
Conversations with Creative Women - Volume One (Pocket Edition) by Tess McCabe
$20.00 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
The Conversations with Creative Women: Pocket Edition series contain exclusive interviews with some of Australia’s most talented female creatives from industries as varied as ceramics, interior design, styling, photography, illustration, filmmaking, furniture, and book design. Following the success of t ...Show more
Cop This Lot: Growing up Class-Conscious in Australia by Tobias McCorkell (Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
Stories of not belonging in a classless society. Class intersects with almost every aspect of our lives, from where we go to school, to what we wear and eat, to how we speak, and how we make a living. Yet we almost never talk about it, and when we do, it's often to make claims about how much Australia ...Show more
Critic Swallows Book: Ten Years of the Sydney Review of Books by Catriona Menzies-Pike (Editor)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
In 2023 the Sydney Review of Books celebrates a decade online and the publication of more than a thousand essays and longform reviews of Australian and international literature. Over these ten years the SRB has cleared a unique space for serious reflection on literature and for critical thinking about o ...Show more
Depth of Field by Kirsty Iltners
$34.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
In photography, you don’t get to have it all. You are always making choices, always making sacrifices.To capture the light.Tom’s longest-standing commitment is his run-down house Mayfield, which hasn’t been the same since Adeline. He’s stuck in the past drowning his sorrows in too many bottles of wine a ...Show more
Dialogue with a Somnambulist: Stories, Essays & a Portrait Gallery by Chloe Aridjis
$27.95 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
Renowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels Book of Clouds, Asunder and Sea Monsters, the Mexican writer Chloe Aridjis crosses borders in her work as much as she traverses them in life. Now, collected here for the first time, her stories, essays and pen portraits reveal an author as ima ...Show more
Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby
$22.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and modern American rock star Prince Every so often, a pairing comes along that seems complet ...Show more
Difference and Repetition by Gilles Deleuze
$44.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Since its publication in 1968, Difference and Repetition, an exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be considered a contemporary classic in philosophy and one of Gilles Deleuze's most important works. The text follows the development of two central concepts, those of pure difference and com ...Show more
Doing Justice - A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law by Preet Bharara
$22.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
'Simply, utterly brilliant. Bursting with humility and humanity' THE SECRET BARRISTER 'A survival guide for the Trump era' GUARDIAN Banned by Putin, fired by Trump. And now he's free to talk. Multi-million-dollar fraud. Terrorism. Mafia criminality. Russian espionage. For eight years Preet Bharara, Uni ...Show more