Sociology and Politics Reading List

They don't come harder than this. You can't tell a book by its cover, but seeing this gaggle of bastards edge on shows they mean business. Newly minted and almost pristine, their homes on the book shelf are getting prepped. But tomes, especially these are not ornaments. Inside are some of the most explosive ideas, mind boggling arguments and, if you want Roger Scruton's opinion, unreadable nonsense. As time commitments, the question haunting these purchases is "when?". When will they get read? You see, I'm not joking when I say I have a to-read list. It's this evening's blog filler. Every time something new lands in the library or catches the eye, or I'm reminded of an old one I never got round to reading, it goes on the list. Thing is, this an incomplete list. As books read drop off new ones are added. No matter how long I live, it will never be seen through in its entirety. Unless boredom breaks books for me and reading is traded in for chess, embroidery, or motivational speaking. And, it's incomplete now. Missing is the wee pile of books on my desk, the Massumi and Bradotti knocking around my house, and the three volumes of Capital that stare at me every time I glance over at the shelf. MIA also are the academic papers on the Conservative Party I'll shortly begin working through.

Do you keep a reading list?

Michael Bloch, Closet Queens: Some 20th Century British Politicians (Abacus 2016)

Rosi Braidotti, Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics (Polity 2006)

Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman (Polity 2013)

Rosi Braidotti, Posthuman Feminism (Polity 2017)

Claudio Celis, The Attention Economy: Labour, Time and Power in Cognitive Capitalism 
       (Rowman & Littlefield International 2016)

Nick Cohen, What's Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way (Harper Perennial 2007)

David Cole, Engines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements Succeed (Basic Books 2017)

Aeron Davis, Reckless Opportunists: Elites at the End of the Establishment (Manchester 
       University Press 2018)

Jodi Dean, The Communist Horizon (Verso Books 2012)

Jodi Dean, Crowds and Party (Verso Books 2016)

Dhruv Jai (ed), Deleuze and Marx (Edinburgh University Press 2010)

Peter Dorey, British Conservatism: The Politics and Philosophy of Inequality (I.B. Tauris 
       2010)

Kareem Estefan, Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich (eds), Assuming Boycott: Resistance, 
       Agency and Cultural Production (OR Books 2017)

Mike Featherstone et al, The Body (Sage 1991)

Rob Ford and Matthew Goodwin, Revolt on the Right (Routledge 2014)

Anthony Giddens, The Nation State and Violence (Polity 1985)

Elizabeth Grosz, Volatile Bodies (Indiana Uni Press 1994)

Donna J Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulhucene (Duke 
       University Press 2016)

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Assembly (Harvard 2017)

Bob Jessop, State Power (Polity 2007)
Lois McNay, The Misguided Search for the Political (Polity 2014)

Tom Mills, The BBC: Myth of a Public Service (Verso Books 2016)

Johanna Montgomerie (ed), Critical Methods in Political and Cultural Economy (Routledge 
       2017)

Angela Nagle, Kill All Normies (Zero Books 2017)

Kieron O'Hara, After Blair: David Cameron and the Conservative Tradition (Icon Books 
       2007)

Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism (Canongate Canons 2018)

R A W Rhodes and Paul T Hart (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Political Leadership (OUP 
       2016)

Tim Ross and Tom McTague, Betting the House: The Inside Story of the 2017 Election  
      (Biteback 2017)

Mike Savage, Social Class in the 21st Century (Pelican 2015)

Roger Scruton, Thinkers of the New Left (Longman 1985)

Guy Standing, The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (Bloomsbury Academic 2016)

Max Tegmark, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Allen Lane 2017)

Mariano Zukerfeld, Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism: An Introduction to Cognitive

        Materialism (University of Westminster Press 2017)