Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
888744090Y
ISBN-13
9798887440903
Edition
2nd Edition
Publisher
PM Press
Imprint
PM Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 11th, 2025
Print length
160 Pages
Weight
214 grams
Dimensions
14.00 x 21.60 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Political activism
Ksh 2,700.00
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The Housing Monster is a scathing illustrated essay that takes one seemingly simple, everyday thing - a house - and looks at the social relations that surround it. Moving from intensely personal thoughts and interactions to large-scale political and economic forces, it reads alternately like a worker''s diary, a story, a psychology of everyday life, a historical account, an introduction to Marxist critique of political economy, and an angry flyer someone passed you on the street. Starting with the construction site and the physical building of houses, the book slowly builds and links more and more issues together: from gentrification and city politics to gender roles and identity politics, from subcontracting and speculation to union contracts and negotiation, from individual belief, suffering, and resistance to structural division, necessity, and instability. What starts as a look at housing broadens into a critique of capitalism as a whole. The text is accompanied by clean black-and-white illustrations that are mocking, beautiful, and bleak. This new edition includes analysis situating and exploring the text''s impact around the world by Lazo Ediciones in Argentina, Ben Kritikos in Scotland, and Sean KB in the US.
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