Arts of the Political New Openings for the Left

"The Left urgently needs redefinition and rejuvenation during a time when the forces of the Right are highly mobilized, blowback from several nonhuman forces has intensified, and a progressive formation will take the form of a pluralist assemblage. Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift confront these issues in creative ways, as they explore the levels and modes needed to activate a progressive movement. This is a bracing and timely book." - William E. Connolly, author of A World of Becoming "The fundamental question of this exciting book is not 'What is the Left?' Instead, Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift provoke us to ask what are the new ways of being human in the twenty-first century and what are the new forms of political action to meet these challenges." - David Stark, author of The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life "This is a gallant, fluent, very ambitious and formidably well-read book... a fine and rousing book, and required reading for Messrs Miliband and Cruddas... Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift have contrived this novel and vigorous weapon of dissent, so much required to fight the rough beast of a new epoch now slouching towards Wall Street to be born." - Times Higher Education