July - December 2022 Catalogue

Repeater intends to add its voice to those movements
that wish to enter history and assert control over its currents,
gathering together scattered and isolated voices with those
who have already called for an escape from Capitalist
Realism. Our desire is to publish in every sphere and
genre, combining vigorous dissent and a
pragmatic willingness to succeed.
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JUNE
9781914420436
305pp
PB 234 x 153 mm
Mono
£16.99/$20.95
Memoirs / Politics
World rights available
“Breaks through the hidden
silences that still surround
discussion concerning
interventions in theatres of
war.” — Brad Evans, Professor
of Political Violence &
Aesthetics, University of Bath
“Owen has rendered the
intrinsic dilemmas, moral
ambiguities and political
hazards of humanitarianism
in a powerful and poignant
personal memoir of his time
in Somalia.” — Andrew
Thompson, Professor of
Global & Imperial History,
University of Oxford
JULY
9781913462765
348 pp
PB 197 x 130 mm
Mono
£10.99/$14.95
Politics
World rights available
WHEN THE MUSIC’S OVER
Intervention, Aid and Somalia
Gareth Owen
DRINKING UP THE REVOLUTION
How to Smash Big Alcohol and Reclaim Working-Class Joy
James Wilt
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9781914420054
Twelve Cries from
Home: In Search of Sri
Lanka’s Disappeared
Minoli Salgado
In 1993, Gareth Owen volunteered to go to Somalia with an
Irish aid agency as part of Operation Restore Hope.
In this accessible and engaging memoir, Owen, now Humanitarian
Director at Save the Children UK, recounts the entanglement of
violence and humanity at the heart of this notorious peacekeeping
operation. This is a story of human resilience and contradictory
friendships, of loyalty, courage and extraordinary endeavour — but
mostly it is a story about the meaning of human connection in
desperate circumstances.
Part memoir, part history and part politics, When the Music’s
Over sees beyond the criticism of humanitarian intervention and
challenges us to consider the enduring importance of international
solidarity in a world where notions of common humanity and
universal peace are increasingly being abandoned.
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9781912248919
The Melancholia of
Class: A Manifesto for
the Working Class
Cynthia Cruz
Big Alcohol is one of the most powerful and profitable
industries in the world — yet this constellation of massive
corporations, lobby groups, and governments faces almost no
scrutiny for the immense health and social harms it causes.
Drinking Up the Revolution makes the case for smashing this
global alcohol industry. Far from a call for prohibition or
sobriety, it is instead a manifesto for putting alcohol production
and supply into the hands of the working class, facilitating lowerrisk
drinking, reduced harm, and decommodified sources of
relaxation and pleasure.
Above all, this book is a rallying cry to take back power from the
corporations that have commodified our desire for joy and sold
it back to us in a way that harms our health, lives, and the world
around us.
GARETH OWEN has been an aid worker since 1993 and the
Humanitarian Director at Save the Children UK since 2007.
JAMES WILT is a freelance journalist and the author of Do
Androids Dream of Electric Cars? Public Transit in the Age of
Google, Uber, and Elon Musk.
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JULY
9781914420177
270 pp
PB 197 x 130 mm
Mono
£10.99/$14.95
Politics
World rights available
“David Renton is one of
the most consistently
interesting and
imaginative political
writers in Britain today...”
Owen Hatherley
“Urges us to quit seeking
liberation through
legislation, instead
wield our collective
power for change.”
Grietje Baars
AUGUST
9781914420863
345 pp
PB 197 x 130 mm
Mono
£12.99/$16.95
Architecture / Politics
World rights available
AGAINST THE LAW
Why Justice Requires Fewer Laws and a Smaller State
David Renton
ARTIFICIAL ISLANDS
Adventures in the Dominions
Owen Hatherley
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Since 2016, Britain’s populist leaders have promised to expand
democracy and shrink the law by taking back power from the
European Union.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Great Britain has just left one Union, after years of bitter
argument and divisive posturing. But what if the island’s future
lies in another Union altogether?
9781913462499
How to Philosophize
with a Hammer and
Sickle: Nietzsche and
Marx for the Twenty-
First Century
Jonas Čeika
Yet what they have actually done is institute a vast increase in new
laws, covering every aspect of our lives. Every year, new criminal
offences are created; new regulations are introduced.
Against the Law dares us to imagine a new world, one in the
which the law plays a smaller part in our lives, where workers are
winning, and ecocide is treated with the urgency that it deserves.
But as Against the Law argues, this world can only be realised if the
movements of the oppressed choose to disengage from the law in
their search for justice.
DAVID RENTON is one of Britain’s leading social justice barristers.
His clients have included Occupy protesters and blacklisted trade
unionists. He writes regularly on law and justice for The Guardian
and The London Review of Books.
9781913462208
Red Metropolis:
Socialism and the
Government of London
Welcome to the strange world of the “CANZUK Union”, the name
for a quixotic but apparently serious plan to reunify the whitemajority
“Dominions” of the British Empire — Canada, Australia
and New Zealand — under the flag of low taxes, strong borders and
climate change denialism.
Artificial Islands tests this idea that Britain’s natural allies and closest
relations are in these three countries in North America and the
Antipodes, through a good look at the histories, townscapes and
spaces of several cities across these settler zones of the former
British Empire: Auckland, Melbourne, Montreal, Ottawa and
Wellington.
OWEN HATHERLEY is one of Britain’s foremost writers on
architecture and the author of several books, most recently Red
Metropolis.
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AUGUST
9781914420405
152 pp
PB 197 x 130 mm
Mono
£10.99/$14.95
Philosophy / Politics
World rights available
“Against the lies and
mystifications of a cynical
‘realism,’ Marcuse insists
on the real basis of utopia
— an insistence we need
today more than ever.”
Jodi Dean
“The essays in his
volume are once again
timely as rising social
conflict on the right
and the left challenges
conventional thinking.”
Andrew Feenberg
SEPTEMBER
9781913462468
128 pp
PB 197 x 130 mm
Mono
£10.99/$14.95
Cultural Studies
World rights available
PSYCHOANALYSIS, POLITICS AND UTOPIA
Five Lectures
Herbert Marcuse, introduction by Ray Brassier
WHICH AS YOU KNOW MEANS VIOLENCE
On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment
Philippa Snow
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9781913462031
On the Suffering of
the World
Arthur Schopenhauer
Back in print after fifty years and with a new introduction
by Ray Brassier, this overlooked but prescient collection
of Marcuse’s lectures makes an impassioned plea for the
overthrow of capitalism.
Taking in topics like automation, work, postcapitalism, and
technology, Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia excavates the
psychic roots of the current crisis of capitalist civilisation, and gives
us a blueprint for the emancipation of humanity.
In a world reeling from the ongoing collapse of the neoliberal
consensus, coupled with the accelerating pace of catastrophic
climate change, Marcuse’s radical insights in Psychoanalysis, Politics,
and Utopia are as urgently relevant and necessary today as they
were in 1970.
HERBERT MARCUSE (1898-1979) was a philosopher and critical
theorist and author of Eros and Civilization (1955) and One
Dimensional Man (1964). RAY BRASSIER is Professor of Philosophy
at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
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9781913462420
Deep Sniff: A History
of Poppers and Queer
Futures
Adam Zmith
In Which as You Know Means Violence, writer and art critic
Philippa Snow analyses the subject of pain, injury and
sadomasochism in performance, from the more rarefied
context of contemporary art to the more lowbrow realm of
pranksters, stuntmen and stuntwomen, and uncategorisable,
danger-loving YouTube freaks.
In a world where violence — of the market, of climate change,
of capitalism — is part of our everyday lives, Which as You
Know Means Violence focuses on those who enact violence on
themselves, for art or entertainment, and analyses the role that
violence plays in twenty-first century culture.
PHILIPPA SNOW is a writer based in Norwich. Her reviews and
essays have appeared in publications including Artforum, The Los
Angeles Review of Books, ArtReview, Frieze, The White Review,
Vogue, The New Statesman, The TLS, and The New Republic. She
was shortlisted for the 2020 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize.
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OCTOBER
9781914420733
300 pp
PB 197 x 130 mm
Mono
£10.99/$14.95
Cultural Studies
World rights available
NOVEMBER
9781914420306
338 pp
PB 216 x 135 mm
Mono
£12.99/$16.95
Fiction
World rights available
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9781910924914
Shard Cinema
Evan Calder Williams
WE ARE THE MUTANTS
Resistance and Reaction in American Film
from Rosemary’s Baby to Lethal Weapon
Kelly Roberts, Michael Grasso, Richard McKenna
We Are the Mutants is a critical reassessment of what is
arguably the most discussed and beloved stretch of movies in
Hollywood history.
Documenting the period between the arrival of US troops in
Vietnam and the end of President Reagan’s second term, it focuses
on an eclectic selection of films and genres — horror, documentary,
disaster, vigilante action, neo-noir, post-apocalyptic sci-fi — to track
this period’s tumultuous transformation in American life, culture
and politics.
Covering everything from blockbusters to forgotten Bs and cult
classics, We Are the Mutants re-writes not only the history of
modern American cinema, but the history of America itself.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
9781910924440
Nature and Necessity
HIGH JOHN THE CONQUEROR
A Novel
Tariq Goddard
WESSEX, 2016. Teenagers are vanishing off the council estates
of a small provincial city. A crop of herbs that are said to possess
magical powers which only grow once every fifty years are found in
the woods. A supernatural creature believed to be the guardian of
the herbs is seen in nightmares. Rumours of orgiastic rituals on the
estates of the rich and powerful excite the curious. And the Queen
of England decides to celebrate her 90th birthday with a visit to the
city’s famous cathedral spire.
Into this madness, two ambitious detectives, one with doomed
literary ambitions, seek to solve the mystery, their only lead that
“posh people are taking our children”. Blending mysticism, class war,
societal malfeasance and transcendence, High John the Conqueror
identifies the point in our recent history when the ghosts of our
past become the political monsters of the present.
KELLY ROBERTS is editor-in-chief of We Are the Mutants.
MICHAEL GRASSO is a senior editor at We Are the Mutants.
RICHARD MCKENNA is a senior editor at We Are the Mutants.
TARIQ GODDARD was born in London in 1975. His novels have
been shortlisted for various awards, including the Whitbread (Costa)
First Novel Award, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and the
Commonwealth Writer’s Prize. He is the Publisher of Repeater.
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NOVEMBER
9781914420917
78 tarot cards
35-page booklet
Kit and Deck
126 x 87 mm
Colour
£19.99/$24.95
Philosophy / Tarot
Decks
World rights available
DECEMBER
9781913462864
250 pp
PB 197 x 130 mm
Mono
£10.99/$14.95
Cultural Studies /
Politics
World rights available
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE
9781913462093
The English Heretic
Collection: Ritual
Histories, Magickal
Geography
Andy Sharp
THE PHILOSOPHER’S TAROT
Sereptie
The Philosopher’s Tarot is a mashup of the original classic
Rider-Waite tarot with eminent philosophers, intellectuals and
revolutionaries of history.
Read your spreads in the traditional manner, or delve deeply into
the rich philosophical implications that emerge with every draw.
While every tarot deck seeks to lift the veil from the forces of the
universe, The Philosopher’s Tarot does so by gesturing towards the
wisdom of history’s most notable sages.
With added flair and vibrance, The Philosopher’s Tarot elicits a
mixture of classical interpretations and philosophical inquiry. The
deck comprises mashups of the 22 major arcana with famous
theorists. The minor arcana has also been reworked to highlight
the deck’s convergence with philosophical themes. Includes new
renditions of the traditional 78 tarot cards and a 35-page booklet
that briefly introduces the ideas of thinkers featured in the deck.
SEREPTIE is the moniker of Craig Laubach, producer and host of
the podcasts Acid Horizon and Inner Experience.
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9781910924242
Games Without
Fromtiers
Joe Kennedy
RUNNING OUT OF TIME
Ultrarunning and Endurance in an Era of Climate Collapse
Callum Cant
Running Out of Time asks why running matters, and what its
history of collective struggle can tell us about living in a society
on the verge of climate collapse.
The freedom of running stands in total opposition to the
unfreedom of our modern lives, and shows us a way out — an
acceleration towards a newly designed social world, where we can
chase down the horizons of the possible as fast as our legs will
carry us.
Combining first-hand accounts of running a really long way with a
broader account of human nature, sports science, contemporary
capitalism and nihilism in an era of climate collapse, Running Out
of Time is a running book about how we can, and must, always do
more than we think is possible.
CALLUM CANT is a writer, ultra marathon runner and the author
of Riding for Deliveroo. He is a postdoctoral researcher on
workplace AI at the University of Oxford and was previously head of
communications for Momentum.
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DECEMBER
9781914420849
250 pp
PB 197 x 130 mm
Mono
£10.99/$14.95
Music
World rights available
BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
HOW WE USED SAINT ETIENNE TO LIVE
Ramzy Alwakeel
The essential guide to veteran British indie favourites Saint
Etienne.
9781913462574
Swan Songs: A Novel
Lee Scott
World Rights Available
9781913462420
Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers
and Queer Futures
Adam Zmith
Rights sold: SPA
How We Used Saint Etienne to Live is the story of how these
veteran crossover favourites have spent three decades making
music out of memories — and how we made memories out of
them. It’s a book about dreams in hearts and records in charts. It’s
a tale that involves tape splicing, town planning, Now compilations
and Saint Etienne’s biggest hit “He’s on the Phone”.
9781910924228
Smile If You Dare:
Politics and Pointy Hats
with the Pet Shop Boys
Using original interviews with all three band members, How We
Used Saint Etienne to Live picks up the problems of nostalgia and
history where their dreamlike 2021 album I’ve Been Trying To Tell
You and their film festival at the BFI left off. It’s packed with facts,
analysis and flights of fancy.
RAMZY ALWAKEEL is a British news journalist and music writer.
His first book, Smile If You Dare: Politics and Pointy Hats with the
Pet Shop Boys, was published by Repeater in 2016.
9781912248919
The Melancholia of Class: A
Manifesto for the Working Class
Cynthia Cruz
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9781913462192
Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back
Control and Your Town Can Too
Rhian E. Jones and Matthew Brown
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9781913462505
Junglist
Two Fingas, James T. Kirk
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9781913462079
The Repeater Book of the Occult: Tales
from the Darkside
e d. Tariq Goddard and Eugene Thacker
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9781912248834
Eminent Domain
Carl Neville
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9781913462314
You’re History
Lesley Chow
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9781913462581
The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe
Johnson in Sheerness
Patrick Wright
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9781913462482
Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures
Mark Fisher, ed. Matt Colquhoun
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9781912248285
k-punk
Mark Fisher
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9781913462567
Whore of New York
Liara Roux
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