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Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks is a remarkable work, not only because it was written in jail as the Italian Marxist thinker fell victim to political oppression in his home country, but also because it shows his impressive analytical ability.
First published in 1948, 11 years after Gramsci’s death, Prison Notebooks ably demonstrates that the writer has an innate ability to understand the relationship between different parts of an argument. This is how Gramsci manages to analyze such wide-ranging topics – capitalism, economics and culture – to explain historical developments. He introduces the idea of “hegemony,” the means by which ruling classes in a society gain, keep hold of and manage their power, and, by carefully looking at how society operates, he reveals the manner in which the powerful deploy a combination of force and manipulation to convince most people that the existing social arrangement is logical and in their best interests – even when it isn’t.
Gramsci shows exactly how the ruling class maintains power by influencing both political institutions like the courts and the police, and civil institutions, such as churches, family and schools. His powerful analysis led him to the conclusion that change can only take place in two ways, either through revolution or through a slow but constant struggle to transform the belief system of the ruling classes.
Haraway’s ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ is a key postmodern text and is widely taught in many disciplines as one of the first texts to embrace technology from a leftist and feminist perspective using the metaphor of the cyborg to champion socialist, postmodern, and anti-identitarian politics. Until Haraway’s work, few feminists had turned to theorizing science and technology and thus her work quite literally changed the terms of the debate. This article continues to be seen as hugely influential in the field of feminism, particularly postmodern, materialist, and scientific strands. It is also a precursor to cyberfeminism and posthumanism and perhaps anticipates the development of digital humanities.
We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the state, under the rule of the all-powerful Benefactor, and dreams are regarded as a sign of mental illness. In a city of straight lines, protected by green walls and a glass dome, a spaceship is being built in order to spearhead the conquest of new planets. Its chief engineer, a man called D-503, keeps a journal of his life and activities: to his mathematical mind everything seems to make sense and proceed as it should, until a chance encounter with a woman threatens to shatter the very foundations of the world he lives in.
Written in a highly charged, direct and concise style, Zamyatin’s 1921 seminal novel – here presented in Hugh Aplin’s crisp translation – is not only an indictment of the Soviet Russia of his time and a precursor of the works of Orwell and the dystopian genre, but also a prefiguration of much of twentieth-century history and a harbinger of the ominous future that may still lay ahead of us.
In Bulgakov’s ‘Diaboliad’, the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the Main Central Depot of Match Materials and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior, responsible for his dismissal. His quest through the labyrinth of Soviet bureaucracy takes on the increasingly surreal dimensions of a nightmare.
This early satirical story, reminiscent of Gogol and Dostoevsky, was first published in 1924 and incurred the wrath of pro-Soviet critics. Along with the three other stories in this volume, which also explore the themes of the absurd and bizarre, it provides a fascinating glimpse into the artistic development of the author of The Master and Margarita.
Contains ‘Diaboliad’, ‘No.13 – The Elpit Workers’ Commune Building’, ‘A Chinese Tale’, ‘The Adventures of Chichikov’.
It’s the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitch-hike across Europe with no particular aim in mind but a continent, and themselves, to discover. Somewhere in southern Germany they decide, on a whim, to visit Czechoslovakia where Alexander Dubcek’s ‘socialism with a human face’ is smiling on the world.
Meanwhile Sam Wareham, a first secretary at the British embassy in Prague, is observing developments in the country with a mixture of diplomatic cynicism and a young man’s passion. In the company of Czech student Lenka Konecková, he finds a way into the world of Czechoslovak youth, its hopes and its ideas. It seems that, for the first time, nothing is off limits behind the Iron Curtain.
Yet the wheels of politics are grinding in the background. The Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev is making demands of Dubcek and the Red Army is massed on the borders. How will the looming disaster affect those fragile lives caught up in the invasion?
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of NOMAD and EXILE comes Marc Dane's most terrifying case yet.
A terrible threat from the depths of the dark net.
A devastating betrayal at the heart of a covert strike force.
A deadly pursuit across a digital battlefield.
A ruthless terrorist fuelled by revenge.
As devastating attacks unfold across the globe, Marc Dane must call on all his skills and ingenuity to track down the mysterious figure behind it all – a faceless criminal known only as "Madrigal".
Before they plunge the world into war . . .
Praise for the Marc Dane series:
'Unputdownable. A must-read' Wilbur Smith
'Britain's answer to Jason Bourne' Daily Mail
'An ultra fast paced, worldwide chase to stop a madman, while leaving the reader breathless' Choice
'Explosive' Irish Examiner
'This is edge of the seat stuff that is terrifyingly real in places' Closer
'A killer of a thriller' Weekend Sport
Gdy wkroczył na główną scenę polskiej polityki, większość komentatorów dała wyraz swemu zaskoczeniu. Kojarzony z zapleczem merytorycznym Platformy Obywatelskiej i wpływowym w tej formacji Janem Krzysztofem Bieleckim bankowiec stał się z dnia na dzień jedną z twarzy przejmującego władzę obozu Prawa i Sprawiedliwości. Szybko okazało się, że Mateusz Morawiecki nie jest jedynie dodatkiem do tej ekipy. Obdarzony szczególnym zaufaniem Jarosława Kaczyńskiego umiejętnie poszerzał zakres swych uprawnień wicepremiera. Z czasem zastąpił Beatę Szydło na stanowisku prezesa rady ministrów. Rządowa propaganda lansuje wersję, według której Morawiecki miałby być fachowcem, doświadczonym graczem gospodarczym z chlubną kartą w życiorysie z lat 80., kiedy to stał u boku ojca jako bojownik antykomunistycznego podziemia. Tomasz Piątek zadaje sobie i nam pytanie – czy to cała prawda o obecnym premierze? Wielomiesięczna praca w archiwach (także IPN), jak również rozmowy z ludźmi, którzy znali Mateusza Morawieckiego na różnych etapach jego życia, a także skrupulatna analiza jego działalności oraz powiązań towarzyskich, politycznych i biznesowych – wszystko to daje inny obraz, niż ten, który znamy z rządowych czy prorządowych mediów. Mateusz Morawiecki ma swoje tajemnice, Tomasz Piątek odkrywa wiele z nich.
Mistrzowska opowieść o nas samych1983, okres największej beznadziei Polski Ludowej. Po prowincjonalnych parafiach rozchodzi się wieść o Maryi ukazującej się na działkach w podwrocławskiej Oławie. Kościół odcina się od objawień, a generał Jaruzelski grzmi o religijnej ciemnocie. Mimo milicyjnych szykan dziesiątki tysięcy pątników nadciągają do małego miasteczka.Prostoduszny rencista Heniek z nadludzką konsekwencją dąży do wybudowania wielkiego sanktuarium, które ma konsekrować papież Polak. Jego brat Zbyszek uporczywie lawiruje między poczuciem rodzinnej lojalności a oczekiwaniami przyjaciół, tworzących lokalną partyjno-kościelną elitę. Jego słabość do kobiet, równie silna jak miłość do żony i dzieci, to wymarzony materiał na esbecki szantaż.Kult to najdojrzalsza powieść Łukasza Orbitowskiego, snuta z humorem i czułością. Zbeletryzowana, ale doskonale udokumentowana historia oławskich objawień jest tylko pretekstem do fascynującej opowieści o miłości i stracie, lojalności i próbie zrozumienia najbliższych. O potrzebie odkupienia win. O cudach i ich tajemnicy.
Niniejsze opracowanie to pierwsze w literaturze przedmiotu kompendium wiedzy ukazujące genezę i rozwój polskich agencji prasowych, od tworzenia zalążków tych instytucji aż do chwili obecnej. Jest to zarazem synteza podsumowująca stulecie istnienia rodzimych agencji prasowych.
W opracowaniu prześledzono proces ewolucji polskich agencji prasowych, od agencji telegraficznych do agencji elektronicznych (e-agencji). Autorka podkreśla kontekst polityczny wyrażający się w uwikłaniu agencji prasowych w bieżącą politykę, ukazując rolę omawianych instytucji w procesie rozpowszechniania informacji. Książka wykracza znacznie poza problematykę właściwą dla historii mediów, podejmując refleksję nad perspektywami rozwoju współczesnych agencji informacyjnych.
Walor opracowania stanowi materiał ilustracyjny w postaci fragmentów biuletynów prasowych. Książka adresowana jest do medioznawców, historyków mediów, politologów oraz studentów dziennikarstwa.
Dr hab. prof. UJK Renata Piasecka-Strzelec - pracownik naukowy Instytutu Dziennikarstwa i Informacji Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach. Swoje zainteresowania badawcze koncentruje wokół historii mediów oraz historii najnowszej Polski. W ostatnich latach analizuje również kierunki rozwoju współczesnych polskich agencji informacyjnych w kontekście społeczeństwa sieci.
Autorka wielu artykułów naukowych, rozdziałów w monografiach oraz trzech publikacji zwartych. Najważniejsze opracowanie w jej dotychczasowym dorobku naukowym to monografia Polskie agencje prasowe w latach 1944-1972. Upowszechnianie i reglamentacja informacji, działalność propagandowa (Wydawnictwo UJK, Kielce 2012).
Powieść ""Tyfus, teraz słowiki"" - wymieniana obok ""Na nieludzkiej ziemi"" Józefa Czapskiego, ""Innego świata"" Gustawa Herlinga-Grudzińskiego czy ""W domu niewoli"" Beaty Obertyńskiej jako jedno z najważniejszych świadectw GUŁagu w literaturze polskiej - pozostaje dotąd dziełem znanym tylko wtajemniczonym. Funkcjonuje jako książka osobna - nazbyt drastyczna, przesadnie poetycka, nadmiernie, jak na podejmowany w niej temat, niekonwencjonalna. Kreślona przez Mariana Czuchnowskiego opowieść o losach Polaka Jana Rawy, który w początkach 1942 roku, w czasie jednej z największych epidemii tyfusu plamistego w dziejach Azji Środkowej, trafia wprost z obozu do szpitala zakaźnego w Taszkencie, gdzie następnie zmaga się nie tylko z wycieńczającą chorobą, lecz i z rzeczywistością kreowaną przez sowiecką propagandę, bez wątpienia wyłamuje się ze schematów pisania o doświadczeniach łagrów. Jest opowieścią niezmiennie wstrząsającą, ale i na wskroś nowoczesną. Związaną z konkretnym okresem i miejscem, a zarazem uniwersalną. Stanowiącą nie tyle oskarżenie totalitarnego systemu, ile wielką pochwałę życia w jego najprostszych przejawach.
„Pozostaje więc fragment, jako emanacja, przebłysk cząstkowej prawdy, przybliżający nas do nadziei poznania i zrozumienia. Tak rozumiany fragment odkrywa trop, daje jakiś punkt podparcia, choćby zawarta w nim myśl była raczej pytaniem niż odpowiedzią”.
Publikowane w tym tomiku fragmenty i zapiski w zamyśle autora mają stać się impulsem do namysłu nad pytaniami przybliżającymi zrozumienie pewnych ważnych aspektów naszej współczesności.
Turgenev’s final novel, Virgin Soil traces the destinies of several middle-class revolutionaries who seek to “go to the people” by working on the land and instilling democratic ideas in the countryside’s locals. They include the daydreaming impoverished young tutor Nezhdanov – employed by the liberal councillor Sipyagin and his vain and beautiful wife Valentina – the naive young radical Maryanna and the progressive factory manager Solomin.
Their liaisons, intrigues and conspiracies, set against the backdrop of Tsarist Russia, form the matter of Turgenev’s most ambitious and elaborate work, which cemented the author’s place in the West as Russia’s foremost novelist while at the same time proving controversial at home – culminating in the arrest of fifty-two real-life revolutionaries barely a month after it was published.
Based on Dovlatov’s actual experience of being a prison guard in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, and full of comic and humane detail, The Zone depicts the absurd day-to-day life of a camp in an insightful and unusual way, challenging commonly held perceptions of the relations between incarcerators and the incarcerated.
A priceless chronicle of its time which highlights universal themes, Dovlatov’s genre-defying novel also provides moments of high entertainment and humour, rendered in his characteristically sharp, concise and sardonic style.
Several years after emigrating from the USSR, the author discovers the battered suitcase he had brought with him gathering dust at the back of a wardrobe. As he opens the suitcase, the items he finds inside take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired them. A poplin shirt evokes a story of courtship and marriage, a pair of boots calls up the hilarious conclusion to an official banquet, two pea-green crêpe socks bring back memories of his attempt to become a black-market racketeer, while a double-breasted suit reminds him of when he was approached by the KGB to spy on a Swedish writer.
Imbued with a comic nostalgia and overlaid with Dovlatov’s characteristically dark-edged humour and wry power of observation, The Suitcase is a profoundly human, delightfully ironic novel from one of the finest satirists of the twentieth century.
A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official’s son, with a view to spying on the father and, ultimately, assassinating him. But the young man entrusted with the task – an ailing, world-weary “nobody” – seized with the purposelessness of life and a sense of his own impending death, gradually becomes disillusioned with his mission, and decides to embark on a new path which will lead him to tragedy.
Combining psychological detail with a strong sense of place and time, The Story of a Nobody bears all the hallmarks of Chekhov’s genius, and perfectly captures the political and social tensions of its day.
‘If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.’
- Karl Popper, from the Preface
Written in political exile during the Second World War and first published in two volumes in 1945, Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books of all time. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a ‘vigorous and profound defence of democracy’, its now legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx exposed the dangers inherent in centrally planned political systems and through underground editions become an inspiration to lovers of freedom living under communism in Eastern Europe.
Popper’s highly accessible style, his erudite and lucid explanations of the thoughts of great philosophers and the recent resurgence of totalitarian regimes around the world are just three of the reasons for the enduring popularity of The Open Society and Its Enemies and why it demands to be read today and in years to come.
One of the most important texts of modern times, Herbert Marcuse's analysis and image of a one-dimensional man in a one-dimensional society has shaped many young radicals' way of seeing and experiencing life. Published in 1964, it fast became an ideological bible for the emergent New Left. As Douglas Kellner notes in his introduction, Marcuse's greatest work was a 'damning indictment of contemporary Western societies, capitalist and communist.' Yet it also expressed the hopes of a radical philosopher that human freedom and happiness could be greatly expanded beyond the regimented thought and behaviour prevalent in established society. For those who held the reigns of power Marcuse's call to arms threatened civilization to its very core. For many others however, it represented a freedom hitherto unimaginable.
The end of the Cold War, which occurred early in the 1990s, brought joy and freedom to millions. But it posed a difficult question to the world's governments and to the academics who studied them: how would world order be remade in an age no longer dominated by the competing ideologies of capitalism and communism? Samuel P. Huntington was one of the many political scientists who responded to this challenge by conceiving works that attempted to predict the ways in which conflict might play out in the 21st century, and in The Clash of Civilizations he suggested that a new kind of conflict, one centred on cultural identity, would become the new focus of international relations. Huntington's theories, greeted with scepticism when his book first appeared in the 1990s, acquired new resonance after 9/11.
The Clash of Civilizations is now one of the most widely-set and read works of political theory in US universities; Huntington's theories have also had a measurable impact on American policy. In large part, this is a product of his problem-solving skills. Clash is a monument to its author's ability to generate and evaluate alternative possibilities and to make sound decisions between them. Huntington's view, that international politics after the Cold War would be neither peaceful, nor liberal, nor cooperative, ran counter to the predictions of almost all of his peers, yet his position – the product of an unusual ability to redefine an issue so as to see it in new ways – has been largely vindicated by events ever since.
Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is an unflinching dissection of the racial biases built into the American prison system. Named after the laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern United States until the mid-1960s, The New Jim Crow argues that while America is now legally a colorblind society – treating all races equally under the law – many factors combine to build profound racial weighting into the legal system.
The US now has the world’s highest rate of incarceration, and a disproportionate percentage of the prison population is comprised of African-American men. Alexander’s argument is that different legal factors have combined to mean both that African-Americans are more likely to be targeted by police, and to receive long jail sentences for their crimes. While many of Alexander’s arguments and statistics are to be found in other books and authors’ work, The New Jim Crow is a masterful example of the reasoning skills that communicate arguments persuasively. Alexander’s skills are those fundamental to critical thinking reasoning: organizing evidence, examining other sides of the question, and synthesizing points to create an overall argument that is as watertight as it is persuasive.
Prodigiously influential, Jacques Derrida gave rise to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic concepts and categories of Western philosophy in the latter part of the twentieth century, with writings central to our understanding of language, meaning, identity, ethics and values.
In 1993, a conference was organized around the question, 'Whither Marxism?’, and Derrida was invited to open the proceedings. His plenary address, 'Specters of Marx', delivered in two parts, forms the basis of this book. Hotly debated when it was first published, a rapidly changing world and world politics have scarcely dented the relevance of this book.
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