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ALAIN DENEAULT
MEDIOCRACY
224 pages
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“The power is in the hands of the mediocre. Their empire now extends
to all spheres of life: the arts, the economy, science, law, and politics.
Hardworking and quick to breed, they are extremely effective, so much
so that the time is not distant that they will have extinguished every
passion, suppressed all sense of daring, and slashed every genuine political idea to shreds.”
In this book, Alain Deneault offers an incisive and at times caustic analysis of the reign of mediocrity, which sterilizes the human mind by
spreading a reckless love for cultural and political tepidness. Mediocrity
is a social order that permanently threatens to collapse in the middle.
Also by Alain Denault
«Governance»: On Totalitarian Management
The mediocre
have seized
the power
Alain Deneault, a Doctor of Philosophy from
the Université Paris-VIII, teaches “critical
thinking” in political science at the Université de Montréal. He is also the author of
Offshore, Tax Havens and the Rule of Global
Crime (The New Press, 2011)
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FRANCIS DUPUIS-DÉRI
FEAR OF THE PEOPLE
POLITICAL AGORAPHILIA
AND AGORAPHOBIA
464 pages
While some view popular movements as the perfect embodiment of
direct democracy, others only see them as, while sympathetic, essentially
insignificant mobilizations. That is, when they are not trying to outright
discredit them through accusations of violence.
Drawing upon a profound knowledge of the field and of the history of
democratic practices, Francis Dupuis-Déri offers an inspired and critical
reflection. He dynamically presents the struggle between political agoraphobia and agoraphilia – the hatred and love of direct democracy –
revealing the arguments and tactics of both sides. He also discusses the
delicate relationship between people gathering in the agora to deliberate (the dêmos) and those who take to the streets to rise up in protest
(the plebs).
Also by Francis Dupuis-Déri
Democracy: The Political History of a Word
Who's afraid of the Black Blocs?
Anarchism As Explained to My Father
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Who's afraid of
direct democracy?
Francis Dupuis-Déri is a professor of political
science at the Université du Québec à
Montréal (UQÀM). Specialized in political
thought and social movements, he is the
author of numerous works.
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SETH ACKERMAN, MATEO ALALUF,
JEAN-MARIE HARRIBEY, DANIEL ZAMORA
THE CASE AGAINST UNIVERSAL
BASIC INCOME
120 pages
The aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis has spurred renewed enthusiasm for the idea of a universal basic income in
both Europe and America. The project finds support from the
left as well as the right and, according to many experts, could
form the foundation for future social policy. More than one
critical thinker has advocated for it – Philippe Van Parijs,
Toni Negri, José Bové, or André Gorz – but what does this
astonishing consensus really mean?
What lies behind
this idea,
championed by
both the left and
the right?
According to the authors of this book, universal basic income, under the guise of a benevolent redistribution of
wealth, confirms the abandonment of the central political
issue of the last one hundred and fifty years: the conflict
between capital and labour. Each of the texts in this book invokes the crucial importance of this question, and demonstrates why it is imperative to oppose universal basic income.
Seth Ackerman is a doctoral candidate
in history at Cornell and a member of
the editorial board of Jacobin.
Mateo Alaluf is a professor of sociology
at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and
specializes in questions related to work
and labour.
Jean-Marie Harribey is an economist
with the University of Bordeaux IV and
a former lecturer and associate professor of economics and social science. A
former co-president of Attac France and
co-president of its scientific council, he
is also a board member of the Économistes atterrés.
Daniel Zamora is a postdoctoral researcher in sociology with the University of
Cambridge as well as the Université
Libre de Bruxelles.
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LUDOVIC LAMANT
SQUATTING POWER: OCCUPYING
CITY HALLS IN SPAIN
THE SPANISH REBELLIOUS MAYORS
Is there a new
revolution taking
place in Spain?
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Ludovic Lamant is the Brussels-based
correspondent for the independent
news site Mediapart, he mainly covers
the saga of the European and Spanish
crises since 2009.
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256 pages
What if it was in the cities that a social Europe were to come to life? If
mayors were to bring about this imagined community, disfigured by the
banks, the troika, and mediocre economists? Such are the hopes that
current-day Spain has to offer us. Far from the stuck-up arrogance of
austerity, indignant and rebellious city halls have sprung up in dozens
of cities, including Barcelona and Madrid. Despite the promises of Podemos, Spanish national politics are stammering. But at the municipal
level, strong and charismatic figures, such as the squatter Ada Colau
and the anti-Franco judge Manuela Carmena, are exploring new ways
to do politics.
Ludovic Lamant met dozens of women and men belonging to this civic
wave that has flooded across Spain. Alternating between testimonials,
journalism, and political analysis, he retraces the political, historical, and
social origins of the phenomenon and proposes an initial assessment.
A portrait of unprecedented citizen platforms in Europe, this story of an
enduring uprising also proves to be a tool box for other movements defending the commons elsewhere in the world.
Too big to fail
but big enough
to ruin us all
FRANÇOIS MORIN
THE GLOBAL HYDRA
THE OLIGOPOLY OF BANKS
168 pages
There are 28 so-called “systemic” banks, whose influence is such that
the failure of any one could sink us into the abyss of another recession. These banks form an oligopoly that is anything but public. Their
dominant position imbues them with a power similar to that of large
public institutions – including the ability to set the price of money –
without any requirements for transparency. Through taking huge risks
and making fraudulent deals, they weaken markets, but more importantly they exercise such enormous political influence that our
hunt for public resources powerful enough to counteract them is in
vain. Need we look any further for the causes of the political crises
sweeping the Western democracies?
Introducing new evidence, François Morin is uncompromising: if we
want to protect citizens from the financial crises to come, we must
fight this financial hydra and return the money to the collective purse.
Also by François Morin
The Great Bleed: Against the Imminent Financial Disaster
Professor Emeritus of economics at the
University of Toulouse, François Morin
was a member of the Bank of France
General Council and the Council of Economic Analysis.
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A convincing
philosophical essay
on why we should
face our food
MARTIN GIBERT
YOUR STEAK IS A DEAD ANIMAL
VEGANISM AND MORAL PSYCHOLOGY
256 pages
The majority of people don't want to hurt animals. But they also want
their steak. This is what we call the “meat paradox”. We don't want to
see what we're really eating: dead animals.
Martin Gibert teaches Moral Philosophy
at University of Quebec in Montreal.
More and more researchers explain this phenomenon of “cognitive dissonance” as the product of social practices and beliefs specifically aimed
at denying the existence of animal suffering. These practices and beliefs
conspire to convince us, from childhood, that it is normal, natural, and
necessary to eat animal products. However nothing could actually be
further from the truth – in terms of our health, animal ethics, and environmental sustainability.
In this engaging and accessible essay, Martin Gibert synthesizes contemporary debates on the meat paradox. In so doing, he presents veganism,
a growing moral and political movement that fights for the rights of animals as well as social and environmental justice.
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At a time when many
political philosophers
are questioning
the commons,
Franck Fischbach
reasserts the importance of the social.
FRANCK FISCHBACH
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SOCIAL
THE POWER OF COOPERATION
264 pages
For several decades now society has become increasingly privatized
and atomized, positioning people in competition with one another
and causing them to lose touch with the true meaning of the social:
cooperation.
In philosophy too, the concept of the social, often preferred over
conceptions such as ‘the commons’ or ‘community’, struggles to find
a place. In the tradition of Dewey, this essay defends “the value of the
social” as a category of thought. It analyzes the reasons behind the
discrediting of ‘the social’, and seeks to rebuild the concept as serving
both a descriptive and moral-political function. This book advances
the argument that work, as a venue for connection and cooperation,
is a strictly democratic imperative and the political expression of the
social system. On this basis becomes possible a critique of those devices that effectively deprive work of its democratic dimension by
subduing its cooperative logic.
Franck Fischbach teaches Philosophy at
the Université de Strasbourg. He has
translated Hegel, Schelling, Marx and
Honneth into French, and written various essays on Marx, Social Philosophy,
among other topics.
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HUGO MEUNIER
WALMART
DIARY OF AN “ASSOCIATE”
360 pages
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For three months, journalist Hugo Meunier went undercover at a Walmart. During his time as an “associate”, he kept a diary of the humorous anecdotes of his daily life: the infamous rally cries, the raging
clients, the collapsing pallets, the absurd training sessions. With a remarkable sense of detail he describes a typical day in the life of a lowwage earner working for the largest retailer in the world.
Undercover at
Walmart
After this experience, the reporter set off to investigate the empire –
from Mexico to Jonquière, by way of Arkansas. Thus to his recounting
of life “on the floor” does he add a captivating portrait of Walmart and
of the cult dedicated to the one true God of North America: money.
Hugo Meunier works as a reporter at
La Presse, the main Canadian daily newspaper in French.
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A gripping work of
literary non-fiction about
a feminicide in Canada
EMMANUELLE WALTER
STOLEN SISTERS
THE STORY OF TWO MISSING GIRLS, THEIR
FAMILIES AND HOW CANADA HAS FAILED
INDIGENOUS WOMEN
224 pages
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Canada has only recently been rocked by the brutal violence against
young Aboriginal women. An official report revealed that since 1980,
at least 1,200 Canadian Aboriginal women have been murdered or
have gone missing. This alarming official figure reveals a national tragedy and the systemic failure of law enforcement and of all levels of government to address the issue.
Journalist Emmanuelle Walter spent two years investigating this crisis
and has crafted a moving representative account of the disappearance
of two young women, Maisy Odjick and Shannon Alexander, teenagers
who have been missing since September 2008. Through personal testimonies, interviews, press clippings and official documents, Walter
pieces together the disappearance and loss of these two young lives, revealing these young women through the voices of family members and
witnesses.
Stolen Sisters is a moving and deeply shocking work of investigative
journalism that makes the claim that not only is Canada failing First
Nations communities, but that a feminicide is taking place.
CYRIL AZOUVI
Emmanuelle Walter is an independent journalist. She has worked for Liberation, Le Nouvel
Observateur, ARTE Radio and Terra eco. Originally from France, she lives in Montreal.
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JEAN-PIERRE LE GLAUNEC
INDIGENOUS ARMY
THE DEFEAT OF NAPOLEON IN HAÏTI
SERGE BOUCHARD AND
MARIE-CHRISTINE LÉVESQUE
REMARKABLE FORGOTTENS
SIMON TREMBLAY-PEPIN
ILLUSIONS
CONCISE GUIDE TO MEDIA CRITIQUE
GABRIEL NADEAU-DUBOIS
FIGHTING BACK
MICHAEL SCHMIDT
MAPPING REVOLUTIONARY ANARCHISM
CYRIL AZOUVI
THE DAY AMERICA SAW WAR. 1943:
THE TRAUMA OF THE BATTLE OF TARAWA
JONATHAN MARTINEAU
ANGLO-SAXON MARXISM:
CONTEMPORARY FIGURES
VLADIMIR POZNER
THE DISUNITED STATES
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TOM SLEE, WHAT'S YOURS IS MINE
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