Achille Décharné

Achille Mbembe is one of the world’s most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences. In Out of the Dark Night, he offers a rich analysis of

Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a plan

In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world p

A collection of essays that contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of post colonial theory. It i

Eminent critic Achille Mbembe reevaluates history and racism, offering a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness—from the Atlantic slave trad

'Over ras en racisme kan alleen worden gesproken in een taal die onvermijdelijk tekortschiet, een taal die grijs en soms inadequaat is. Vooralsnog vol

In een wereld waarin muren worden opgetrokken houdt Achille Mbembe ons een confronterende spiegel voor. Een zeer actueel boek van de meesterdenker van

Kiss Me Deadly, Bonnie & Clyde, Get Carter, Little Caesar, Goodfellas - these films may be classics, but their origins are often far less familiar. Th

A revised and expanded edition of Max Decharne's much-loved and previously out-of-print 'King's Road'. The book serves as a social history of the fame

Over seven centuries London has changed dramatically - from walled medieval settlement to bustling modern metropolis. Capital Crimes tells the story o

Righteous jive for all you weedheads, moochers, b-girls, gassers, bandrats, triggermen, grifters, snowbirds, and long-gone daddies.Much of the slang p

'Enormously enjoyable' Sunday Times 'Genial and entertaining' Daily Telegraph 'A joyous celebration of the founding fathers of British youth cul