COUNTERPRESS is pleased to announce the publication of We’re Nobody’s Children: David Bowie and Existentialism by Alex Sharpe.This book brings existentialist philosophy (atheistic and Christian) to life through the artistic life of David Bowie. Working with Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche,
A new Routledge book series, publishing novel explorations of normativity for contemporary theorisations of life, in a rapidly evolving global technosocial ecology.This book series invites original scholarship exploring the emerging realm of ‘econormativity’. A fundamentally interdisciplinary project, the series welcomes contributions
A fuel handler refuels an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft on deck aboard the aircraft carrier USS CORAL SEA.A single F-35 fighter jet burns through roughly 5,600 litres of fuel for every hour it is in the air. A US aircraft carrier
On September 7, 2018, in his first major address since leaving office, former President Barack Obama excoriated the administration of Donald J. Trump. By then, the latter president had been in office for over a year and a half. Obama,
It’s been a while since we abandoned our Facebook and Twitter/X accounts, or rather their algorithms abandoned us. Never to be deterred, we are now trying again with LinkedIn, which today seems to be used in ways more than just
CLC2026 invites stream proposals exploring the theme of PROTOCOLS, via three distinct modes, each with its own dedicated call (below) – WORKS OF TEXT, PERFORMING BODIES and PROOF OF CONCEPT.For logistical reasons, we ask that each session is defined as
Ilya Repin: They Did Not Expect Him, 1884-88Introductory Note by Igor ShoikhedbrodE.B. Pashukanis (1891-1937) is best known for his General Theory of Law and Marxism (1924), where he offered an original account of the genesis of the legal form under generalized conditions
The contemporary figure of the foreigner is not judged for what they do, but for the fact of who they are. In regimes of crimmigration, guilt no longer follows the act—it precedes it. It attaches to presence, to mobility, to
The 13 February 2026 decision of the High Court inHuda Ammori v Secretary of State for the Home Department that the Home Secretary’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action was unlawful, provides a fascinating insight into the abuse of UK
