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Beyond Plague Urbanism

By: Andy Merrifield

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Our cities have been plagued by economic injustices and inequalities long before COVID-19 upended urban life everywhere. Beyond Plague Urbanism delves into this zone of urban pathology and asks what successive lockdowns and exoduses, remote work and small-business collapse, redundant office space and unaffordable living space portend for our society in cities? Andy Merrifield journeys intercontinentally as he reflects on these questions, in a narrative that moves imaginatively between plague and populist politics, the U.S. Main Street and the British High Street, overcrowding and undercrowding, the right to the city today and eco-cities of tomorrow. Blending jazz with French Surrealism, Thomas Pynchon’s rocket science with the odyssey of James Joyce, Henri Lefebvre’s Marxism with the street ballets of Jane Jacobs, this challenging book appears at a timely moment in our fraught political history and opens up an urgent humanist conversation about the future of city life.

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1685900135

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The Amateur

The Pleasures of Doing What You Love

By: Andy Merrifield

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The Amateur

The Pleasures of Doing What You Love

By: Andy Merrifield

A radical manifesto about doing what you love Andy Merrifield offers a passionate tribute to the revolutionary spirit of the amateur—a figure who thinks outside the box, takes risks, dreams the impossible dream, seeks independence, and carves out a new world. Merrifield celebrates such square pegs as Charles Baudelaire, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Edward Said, Guy Debord, Hannah Arendt, and Jane Jacobs, each of whom shows us a path of unconventional wisdom and freedom. The Amateur advocates urgently for the liberated life, one that creates the space to question authority.

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Verso Books

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1786631075

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Marx, Dead and Alive

Reading "Capital" in Precarious Times

By: Andy Merrifield

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Marx, Dead and Alive

Reading "Capital" in Precarious Times

By: Andy Merrifield

A contemporary interrogation of Marx’s masterwork Karl Marx saw the ruling class as a sorcerer, no longer able to control the ominous powers it has summoned from the netherworld. Today, in an age spawning the likes of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, our society has never before been governed by so many conjuring tricks, with collusions and conspiracies, fake news and endless sleights of the economic and political hand. And yet, contends Andy Merrifield, as our modern lives become ever more mist-enveloped, the works of Marx can help us penetrate the fog. In Marx, Dead and Alive—a book that begins and ends beside Marx’s recently violated London graveside—Merrifield makes a spirited case for a critical thinker who can still offer people a route toward personal and social authenticity. Bolstering his argument with fascinating examples of literature and history, from Shakespeare and Beckett, to the Luddites and the Black Panthers, Merrifield demonstrates how Marx can reveal our individual lives to us within a collective perspective—and within a historical continuum. Who we are now hinges on who we once were—and who we might become. This, at a time when our value-system is undergoing core “post-truth” meltdown.

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Monthly Review Press

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1583678794

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Henri Lefebvre

A Critical Introduction

By: Andy Merrifield

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Henri Lefebvre

A Critical Introduction

By: Andy Merrifield

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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The Wisdom of Donkeys

Finding Tranquility in a Chaotic World

By: Andy Merrifield

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The Wisdom of Donkeys

Finding Tranquility in a Chaotic World

By: Andy Merrifield

Traces the author's spiritual quest for tranquility among the ruins and vistas of southern France's Haute-Auvergne, a journey he shared with a donkey companion that enabled him to reflect on a wide range of disciplines.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0802719929

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Beyond Plague Urbanism

By: Andy Merrifield

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Beyond Plague Urbanism

By: Andy Merrifield

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Marx, Dead and Alive

Reading "Capital" in Precarious Times

By: Andy Merrifield

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Reading "Capital" in Precarious Times

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The Politics of the Encounter

Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization

By: Andy Merrifield

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The Politics of the Encounter

Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization

By: Andy Merrifield

The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and global social struggle. The city, writes Andy Merrifield, remains "important, virtually and materially, for progressive politics." And yet, he notes, more than forty years have passed since Henri Lefebvre advanced the powerful ideas that still undergird much of our thinking about urbanization and urban society. Merrifield rethinks the city in light of the vast changes to our planet since 1970, when Lefebvre's seminal Urban Revolution was first published. At the same time, he expands on Lefebvre's notion of "the right to the city," which was first conceived in the wake of the 1968 student uprising in Paris. We need to think less of cities as "entities with borders and clear demarcations between what's inside and what's outside" and emphasize instead the effects of "planetary urbanization," a concept of Lefebvre's that Merrifield makes relevant for the ways we now experience the urban. The city—from Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall Street—seems to be the critical zone in which a new social protest is unfolding, yet dissenters' aspirations are transcending the scale of the city physically and philosophically. Consequently, we must shift our perspective from "the right to the city" to "the politics of the encounter," says Merrifield. We must ask how revolutionary crowds form, where they draw their energies from, what kind of spaces they occur in—and what kind of new spaces they produce.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820345814

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John Berger

By: Andy Merrifield

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John Berger

By: Andy Merrifield

With a career in literature and art spanning more than sixty years, John Berger is characterized by an independent and anti-institutional approach to creativity. Working in a range of media including novels, painting, essays and scriptwriting, Berger's voice has resounded through mainstream and alternative culture alike. He is perhaps best known for his seminal book of art criticism Ways of Seeing, published in 1972. Tied directly into a four-part BBC television series, the book presented a radical new interpretation of Western cultural aesthetics. In the same year, Berger's experimental novel G. was awarded the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, cementing his reputation as a boundary-pushing writer and thinker. In this concise yet detailed study of Berger's life and work, the first for decades, Andy Merrifield sheds light on Berger the man, the artist, and the concerned citizen. Merrifield shows Berger to be a figure who constantly strives to open up new horizons, and also reveals the depth of feeling that infuses even his most intellectual work. In this sense, Berger is a creator who feels reality like the irrationalist Rousseau, yet is also a meticulous realist, probing objects critically and rationally like Spinoza. John Berger stitches together art, literature, biography and politics into a lucid, coherent whole. The result is a reader-friendly, freewheeling narrative, which gives fascinating insight into one of the most influential thinkers of our times. The book is essential reading for students and scholars of art, literature and twentieth-century culture.

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Reaktion Books

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1861899424

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The Amateur

The Pleasures of Doing What You Love

By: Andy Merrifield

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The Pleasures of Doing What You Love

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Planning in a Global Era

By: Andy Thornley

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Planning in a Global Era

By: Andy Thornley

Globalization was the buzzword of the last decade. Advances in communication technology, computing and air travel have all contributed to the establishment of what has been referred to as a 'network society' that encompasses the globe. Such arguments clearly have a significance on planning - an activity which has been concerned with controlling and shaping the use of space. This volume brings together contributions from across the world in order to address some of the questions that arise from such global changes. The opening section addresses the globalization debate directly, raising some theoretical issues and exploring the planning implications across a range of world cities. This is followed by an exploration of the way the theoretical debate about planning may need to advance to encompass contemporary forces. A number of more specific accounts addressing the need for adaptation are offered. The final section focuses on two aspects - housing and sustainability - which persist as 'wicked problems' and are likely to remain at the top of the agenda in the third millennium.

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Routledge

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1351910876

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John Berger

By: Andy Merrifield

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By: Andy Merrifield

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Metromarxism

A Marxist Tale of the City

By: Andy Merrifield

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Metromarxism

A Marxist Tale of the City

By: Andy Merrifield

Metromarxism" discusses Marxism's relationship with the city from the 1850s to the present by way of biographical chapters on figures from the Marxist tradition, including Marx, Walter Benjamin, Guy Debord, and David Harvey. Each chapter combines interesting biographical anecdotes with an accessible analysis of each individual's contribution to an always-transforming Marxist theory of the city. He suggests that the interplay between the city as center of economic and social life and its potential for progressive change generated a major corpus of work. That work has been key in advancing progressive political and social transformations.

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Psychology Press

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0415933498

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The Astral Geographic

The Watkins Guide to the Occult World

By: Andy Sharp

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The Astral Geographic

The Watkins Guide to the Occult World

By: Andy Sharp

Here is the occult as you've never seen it before! A history of magic framed as a travel guide featuring 10 magical tours through history and across the globe. Packed with fascinating information and illustrated with Shell guide-style collage artworks, retro-looking postcard imagery and route maps. This terrific book is a guide to the occult world, featuring 10 itineraries and maps of magical tours across the globe. Spanning countries and continents in pursuit of occult themes, it is meant to be pursued by the astral or armchair traveller rather than on the ground, although we expect readers to be inspired to plan epic trips of their own. It takes a fantastically fresh approach to the occult, with a nod to the retro Shell Guides in the use of collage artwork and humorous, on-point suggestions of places to stay and eat. Expand your occult horizons by trying these tours – and many more! Necromancy through the Ages Tour: Travel from Ancient Nineveh to northern England, tracing sites of necromantic practice. Crowley & Choronzon Desert Tour: Hike across the Algerian desert in the footsteps of the magicians Aleister Crowley and Victor Neuburg, invoking angels and meeting the terrifying demon Choronzon. The Descent & Rise of Witchcraft Tour: Visit the temples of Hekate and Circe in Turkey and Italy, the Spanish sites of the Inquisition's witch-hunts, and the haunts of the Norse sorceresses. Curse, Protect and Divine Tour: Travel across Europe to the United States and Kenya unearthing buried curses and counter-magic, from tiny frog coffins in Finnish churches to sinister village hexes. After completing the journeys, the book offers the unique Geonomicon – a simple divinatory and meditational tool that invites the reader to develop their own creative approach to magical practice.

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Watkins Media Limited

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1786787954

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Abandoned & Vanished Canals of England

By: Andy Wood

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Abandoned & Vanished Canals of England

By: Andy Wood

A resurgence in canal restoration has seen many English canals reopen in the past three decades, but many are still abandoned, some even vanished under roads, railways and buildings.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445639270

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Creativity Begins With You

31 Practical Workshops to Explore Your Creative Potential

By: Andy Neal,Dion Star

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Creativity Begins With You

31 Practical Workshops to Explore Your Creative Potential

By: Andy Neal,Dion Star

Can creativity be 'taught'? Or is it simply innate? This book will help you find your creativity through your own unique identity and experience, challenging you to fight those negative voices, get out of your habitual comfort zones and - most importantly - play. Part practical workshop and part provocative guide, Creativity Begins With You is an invaluable companion for any student working across the creative disciplines.

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Laurence King Publishing

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1529420237

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It's NOT a Holiday!

The A-Z Guide to Group Travel

By: Andy N Robinson,Kirsty McGregor

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It's NOT a Holiday!

The A-Z Guide to Group Travel

By: Andy N Robinson,Kirsty McGregor

Professional tour leaders Andy N Robinson and Kirsty McGregor have spent over ten years leading group tours. In It’s NOT a Holiday!, they bring this combined experience together into a ‘must read’ book for all adventure travellers. Fun and informative, It’s NOT a Holiday!, will help you understand what group tours involve – the types of tour available, what happens on tour as well as offering advice to help you make the most of your time away. It introduces twenty stereotypical characters you will inevitably find on your own tour and how they cope with the delays, breakdowns, border closures and other hiccups that commonly occur on overland trips. The book highlights the A-Z of group travel through real stories and humorous anecdotes from their experience as professional tour leaders. It’s NOT a Holiday! should be the first item you pack as you prepare for that organised tour of a lifetime

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Henri Lefebvre

A Critical Introduction

By: Andy Merrifield

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Henri Lefebvre

A Critical Introduction

By: Andy Merrifield

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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The Politics of the Encounter

Urban Theory and Protest Under Planetary Urbanization

By: Andy Merrifield

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Urban Theory and Protest Under Planetary Urbanization

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University of Georgia Press

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0820345296

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The New Urban Question

By: Andy Merrifield

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The New Urban Question

By: Andy Merrifield

A lucid and vibrant contribution to the field of urban studies, tracing the connections between radical urban theory and political activism.

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The Wisdom of Donkeys

Finding Tranquility in a Chaotic World

By: Andrew Merrifield,Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

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The Wisdom of Donkeys

Finding Tranquility in a Chaotic World

By: Andrew Merrifield,Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

This is Zen and the Art of Donkey Walking. I cannot imagine a more charming, informative, or restful book." —Jim Crace, author of Being Dead and The Pesthouse. With a new foreword by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. "Can a donkey be a philosopher? Merrifield believes so and, with this modest, lovely little book, makes us believe so, too." —Booklist In this enchanting book, Andrew Merrifield sets out on a journey of the soul with a friend's donkey, through the crumbling ruins and spectacular vistas of southern France's Haute-Auvergne. Along the way the understated nobility of Gribouille, his humble donkey companion, allows him to confront himself as well as to consider the larger mysteries of life. As Merrifield contemplates literature, science, truth, beauty, and the universality of nature amid the French countryside, Gribouille surprises him with his subtle wisdom, reminding him time and again that enlightenment is all around us if we but seek it. Traveling with Merrifield and Gribouille, we're reminded of the exquisite benefits of nature, passive adventuring, and wild spaces. Also available in hardcover.

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Greystone Books Ltd

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1553655303

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Guy Debord

By: Andy Merrifield

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Guy Debord

By: Andy Merrifield

Andrew Merrifield examines the life of one of the most important and intriguing intellectual figures of the 20th century.

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1861892616

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Cities (And Love)

By: Andy Merrifield

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Cities (And Love)

By: Andy Merrifield

In often dreamlike peregrinations around his home towns of Liverpool, London and New York Andy Merrifield reflects on what cities mean to us and how they shape the way we think. As he wanders, Merrifield’s reveries circle questions: Can we talk about cities in the absolute, discovering their essence beneath the particulars? Is it possible truly to love or hate a city, to experience it carnally or viscerally? Might we find true love in the city? Merrifield does find love in the city: with his future wife, whom he takes on a date to see his hero Spalding Gray’s “It’s a Slippery Slope” at London’s South Bank and soon after moves in with, to a tiny place in Bloomsbury where they celebrate the brilliance of new romance by painting the walls turquoise and gold. And for the fellow urbanist Marshall Berman, another working class boy who went up to Oxford. Berman takes Merrifield under his wing and shows him the thrills available in Dostoevsky and Marx over cups of coffee in ordinary cafes on New York City’s Upper West Side. The mood music to these love affairs is provided by a rich repertoire of intellects, from Jane Jacobs to Mike Davis, from Louis Malle to Walter Benjamin. John Lennon, a pupil, like Merrifield, at Quarry Bank school in Liverpool, enters the story; so too the novelist and critic John Berger. And providing tonality throughout is the stripped down, razor honed talk about love in the stories of Raymond Carver. Andy Merrifield is the author of ten books including works on urbanism and social theory such as The New Urban Question and Magical Marxism, biographies of Henri Lefebvre, Guy Debord and John Berger, a popular travelogue, The Wisdom of Donkeys, and a manifesto for liberated living, The Amateur. His journalism has appeared in the Nation, Harper’s, Adbusters, New Left Review, Dissent, the Brooklyn Rail, and Radical Philosophy.

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OR Books

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1682191443

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Superficial

More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries

By: Andy Cohen

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More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries

By: Andy Cohen

A follow-up to "The Andy Cohen Diaries" recounts his personal and professional escapades during such events as his country tour with sidekick Anderson Cooper, the launch of Sirius station "Radio Andy," and his hosting of NBC's Primetime New Year's Eve special.

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Henry Holt

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1250116481

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Sincerely, Andy Rooney

By: Andy Rooney

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Sincerely, Andy Rooney

By: Andy Rooney

This is an assemblage of Rooney's innumerable and thoughtfully (mostly) sassy (always) letters responding to government and business folk, viewers of 60 Minutes, organizations asking him for a speaking engagement, lawyers, friends, those interested in religious matters, and others. And the letters are arranged into sections according to the type of recipient. Letters that prompted Mr. Rooney's replies are not listed (though Rooney's style allows one to easily understand the original letter's gist). No notes or index, but there seems little need for either. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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