István Hollós’ 1927 reflections on his time as a psychiatrist at the Lipótmezõ hospital offer an unusually poetic account of the life of an asylum and one which prefigures the contestation of psychiatry in decades to come.

An extraordinary memoir from one of Slovenia's most important cultural figures, disability-rights activist Elena Pečarič, Freedom to Breathe is a vital reflection upon freedom, the body, and the dialectic between health and illness.

Part utopian manifesto, part theoretical exegesis, part love-letter to human creativity, Alexander Billet’s debut book Shake the City is a plea for revolt to be as poetic and musical as we deserve it to be.

In 1516, the Venetian ghetto was established, and the city’s Jewish population segregated into it. As Situationist Alice Becker-Ho’s rigorous history shows, Venice was to become a blueprint for urbanism in the coming age of capital.

What is revolutionary about psychoanalysis, and why should those engaged in political praxis take it seriously? This manifesto connects the problems of social and psychical emancipation.