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Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution – review by Owen Hatherley for Guardian Books. Related: Verso Blog: Metropolitan Resistance.

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Edwin Heathcote has reviewed Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution for the Financial Times: Street level: The beginning of a new era in public protest. Rebel Cities is published by Verso Books and is available now on Amazon.com and soon on Amazon.co.uk.

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NYC Events

Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Brian Lehrer Show Live interview on Rebel Cities WNYC 93.9 FM 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST Saturday, April 21, 2012 “Uprisings” Plenary American Ethnological Society Spring Conference Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) Dubinsky Conference Center at W. 27th Street between 7th & 8th Aves, Manhattan 1:30 pm Open to the [...]

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Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution To be published in April 2012 by Verso Books. Available for pre-order on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk now. Long before the Occupy movement, modern cities had already become the central sites of revolutionary politics, where the deeper currents of social and political change rise [...]

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Paul Mason of the Guardian writes that The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism is “the most complete Marxist attempt to situate the global crisis in the context of the irresolvable tensions of a system based on ‘self-expanding money’”. Read his article Books for Giving: Economics / Responses to the global financial meltdown. [...]

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David Harvey will be speaking in São Paulo on February 27th and 28th and in Rio de Janeiro on the 29th to celebrate the Brazilian Portuguese translation of the Enigma of Capital. Details available on this website and on this Facebook event page.

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This video shows David Harvey speaking atop Federal Hill overlooking Baltimore’s Inner Harbor at the opening event of the City From Below conference in March 2009. In this talk, Professor Harvey revisits and updates his famous essay A View from Federal Hill, which appeared in The Baltimore Book and was reprinted in Spaces of Capital. [...]

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Free Chapter of The Enigma of Capital

Chapter 5: “Capital Evolves” from David Harvey’s recent book The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism is now available as a free PDF download: Chapter 5: Capital Evolves from The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism (258k PDF) Thanks to Profile Books for making the chapter available. The Enigma of Capital [...]

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The paperback edition of The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism is now available from Profile Books with a new afterword. Video produced by Red Mist Films.

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Benjamin Kunkel reviews The Enigma of Capital and A Companion to Marx’s Capital for the London Review of Books, Vol. 33 No. 3, February 3 2011, pages 9-14. Read Kunkel’s article How Much Is Too Much?

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