Astra Taylor is a writer, documentary filmmaker, and activist. Her films include Examined Life, and her books include The People”s Platform.
18 Ebooks by Astra Taylor
Ronald Strickland: Growing Up Postmodern
This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. Goodman called for a revival of social investment in …
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€54.85
Stephanie DeGooyer & Samuel Moyn: The Right to Have Rights
Sixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people can enjoy any of the ‘inalienable’ Rights of Man-before there can …
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€21.99
Matt Hern: Stay Solid!
It ain’t easy being a kid these days. For the first time in generations, today’s teens have worse prospects ahead of them than their parents did, and the pressure to toe the line and be a success is …
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€21.99
Keith Gessen & Mark Greif: Occupy!
Nach Tunis, Kairo, Madrid, Tottenham und Athen hat die globale Welle der Empörung nun auch das Auge des Sturms erreicht, die Wall Street in New York. Die Aktivisten, die am 17. September 2011 den …
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€5.99
Astra Taylor: People’s Platform
From a cutting-edge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the internet as the great leveler of our age.The internet has been hailed as an unprecedented …
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€8.99
Astra Taylor: People’s Platform
From a cutting-edge cultural commentator and documentary filmmaker, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great democratizing force of our age. The Internet has …
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€44.59
Astra Taylor: Democracy May Not Exist But We’ll Miss it When It’s Gone
Democracy is in crisis. In every major company it has been stole by elites or in the hands of strong men. In democracy’s name we see a raft of policies that spread inequality and xenophobia …
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€21.99
Brittany M. Powell: The Debt Project
FEATURED IN THE NEW YORKER: The Faces of Americans Living in Debt
Finalist for the Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Prize in Documentary.
Featured on Politico, in the Washington Post, the Daily Mail, a …
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€18.99
Stephanie DeGooyer & Alastair Hunt: Vom Recht, Rechte zu haben
Menschen haben Rechte, allein aufgrund der Tatsache, dass sie Menschen sind – so die Allgemeine Erklärung der Menschenrechte von 1948. Dem widerspricht Hannah Arendt mit ihrem Konzept vom ‘Recht, …
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€9.99
Stephanie DeGooyer & Alastair Hunt: Vom Recht, Rechte zu haben
Menschen haben Rechte, allein aufgrund der Tatsache, dass sie Menschen sind – so die Allgemeine Erklärung der Menschenrechte von 1948. Dem widerspricht Hannah Arendt mit ihrem Konzept vom ‘Recht, …
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€9.99
Debt Collective: Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay
Debtors have been mocked, scolded and lied to for decades. We have been told that it is perfectly normal to go into debt to get medical care, to go to school, or even to pay for our own incarceration …
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€10.99
Astra Taylor: Examined Life
Philosophy reconnects with daily life in these conversations with eight renowned thinkers—the uncut interviews from the documentary film Examined Life. Astra Taylor’s documentary …
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€21.20
Astra Taylor: Remake the World
Over the last decade, author and activist Astra Taylor has helped shift the national conversation on topics including technology, inequality, indebtedness, and democracy. The essays collected here re …
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€18.99
J. D. Beresford: World of Women
When a plague wipes out most of the world’s male population and civilization crumbles, women struggle to build an agrarian community in the English countryside.Imagine a plague that brings society to …
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€49.63
Carla Blumenkranz & Keith Gessen: Occupy!
In the fall of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown Manhattan exploded into a global uprising, sparked in part by the violent overreactions of the police. An unofficial record of this movement, …
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€16.99
