Mayflybooks/Ephemera

The standards of scholarship prevailing in the social sciences of management are indicative of an atrophy of the critical function. This results in a kind of tribalized authoritarianism, a dispersed...

While calls for "system change" to address the climate crisis have become more common, it is important to identify what system change should entail and why. This book examines what a climate agenda...

'Institutional critique' is best known through the critical practice that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s by artists who presented radical challenges to the museum and gallery system...

Creativity is astir: reborn, re-conjured, re-branded, resurgent. The old myths of creation and creators - the hallowed labors and privileged agencies of demiurges and prime movers, of Biblical...

While today many express astonishment at 'ethical scandals' in business, in this important new book Dag G. Aasland asks why, in capitalist economies, such scandals are not more common or even the...

The title Joy Forever refers to the false promise of a common happiness, constantly played out by the proponents of the creative class and creative economy - the very promise that since Romanticism...

The work of Jacques Lacan has become an influential source to most disciplines of the social sciences, and is now considered a standard reference in literary theory, cultural studies and political...

Herbert Marcuse's Negations is both a radical critique of capitalist modernity and a model of materialist dialectical thinking. In a series of essays, originally written in the period stretching from...

Unemployed Negativity is a blog kept by Jason Read for over eighteen years. During that time, it has been a reflection on everything from the films of Jordan Peele to the relevance of Marxist...

Upsetting the Offset engages critically with the political economy of carbon markets. It presents a range of case studies and critiques from around the world, showing how the scam of carbon markets...