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        Philosophy of Correctability

        Philosophy of Correctability

        Philosophy of Correctability

        by Hiroki Azuma

        Translated by John D. Person

        ISBN: 9781915103185

        Publisher: Urbanomic

        Pub Date: April 14, 2026

        A profound rethinking of the political categories of openness and closedness.
        Agnieszka Kurant Collective Intelligence

        Agnieszka Kurant Collective Intelligence

        Agnieszka Kurant Collective Intelligence

        Edited by Stefanie Hessler, Jenny Jaskey and Agnieszka Kurant

        ISBN: 9781915609557

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: December 2, 2025

        Conceptual artist Agnieszka Kurant's work alongside newly commissioned texts by renowned thinkers across science, philosophy, technology, anthropology, and economics.
        Somebody Should Do Something

        Somebody Should Do Something

        Somebody Should Do Something

        How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change

        by Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva and Daniel Kelly

        ISBN: 9780262049788

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 16, 2025

        A novel and scientific approach to creating transformative social change—and the surprising ways that each of us can help make a real difference.
        A Grammar of the Multitude

        A Grammar of the Multitude

        A Grammar of the Multitude

        For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life

        by Paolo Virno

        Introduction by Sylvère Lotringer

        Translated by Isabella Bertoletti, James Cascaito and Andrea Casson

        ISBN: 9781635902204

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: August 12, 2025

        Paolo Virno on the rich concept of the “multitude” as crucial to understanding contemporary life.
        The Monadic Age

        The Monadic Age

        The Monadic Age

        Notes on the Coming Social Order

        by Ingo Niermann

        ISBN: 9781915609243

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: April 23, 2024

        How a new paradigm of self-sufficiency is about to force a reinvention of all social parameters.
        Politically Red

        Politically Red

        Politically Red

        by Eduardo Cadava and Sara Nadal-Melsió

        Designed by Duncan Whyte

        ISBN: 9780262047807

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 5, 2023

        How reading and writing are collective acts of political pedagogy, and why the struggle for change must begin at the level of the sentence.
        Philosophy of the Tourist

        Philosophy of the Tourist

        Philosophy of the Tourist

        by Hiroki Azuma

        ISBN: 9781915103000

        Publisher: Urbanomic

        Pub Date: April 11, 2023

        An inventive philosophical study that reconsiders the figure of the tourist.
        Philosophy for Passengers

        Philosophy for Passengers

        Philosophy for Passengers

        by Michael Marder

        Illustrated by Tomás Saraceno

        ISBN: 9780262543712

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 3, 2022

        A philosophical guide to passengerhood, with reflections on time, space, existence, boredom, our sense of self, and our sense of the senses.
        Extreme Fabulations

        Extreme Fabulations

        Extreme Fabulations

        Science Fictions of Life

        by Steven Shaviro

        ISBN: 9781912685882

        Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

        Pub Date: August 3, 2021

        An examination of science fiction narratives and the light they shed on human life, the unknowable future, and the vagaries of unforeseeable change.
        After Death

        After Death

        After Death

        by François J. Bonnet

        Translated by Amy Ireland

        ISBN: 9781913029708

        Publisher: Urbanomic

        Pub Date: August 11, 2020

        A disturbing portrait of a society deliriously dreaming itself as eternal, instantaneous, and infinite.
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