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How to Stop Being a Teenage Nihilist

In 2017 Stefan Bertram-Lee decided to walk away from their computer keyboard, from their life in the UK as an extremely online 22-year-old edgelord and join the Kurdish YPG in Rojava. Their first book explores the many ways the online left has become truly nihilist and how that nihilism is realized. Offering their own experience in Rojava as a counter to the pessimism of the western left, Bertram Lee argues that, rather than looking to destroy what’s wrong in the world, the left aim at finding a creative political project. 
 
Stefan Bertram-Lee is the co-host of the Culture Deconstructed podcast, they are the subject of the motion picture “Stefan vs. Isis,” a graduate student in Sociology at Swansea University in London.

Beyond Family: A Case for Another Regime of Reproduction, Sexuality and Kinship

Beginning by declaring ‘Familia delenda est!’ or “the Family is (to be) destroyed” Bülent Somay argues that the nuclear family is repressive and regressive and needs to be replaced. 
 
“The family has now become a hindrance against expanding our horizons, increasing our knowledge, imagining and experimenting new modes of existence, not only for women, but also for children who will become men, women, straight and gay persons, transgender and fluid-gender people, in short, all of us.” 
 
Bülent Somay’s previous books include Something is Missing: Things We Don’t Want to Know about Love, Sex and Life, The End of Truth, The Psychopolitics of the Oriental Father and The View from the Masthead

Enjoyment Right & Left

While understanding the psychological structure of pleasure and desire might seem to be unrelated to understanding our current political crisis, Todd McGowan argues that the intrinsically excessive nature of what Lacan would call jouissance, what McGowan calls Enjoyment, is critically important to understand as we try to overcome the contradictions and conflicts that arise in a world that appears to split between right and left. 
 
Todd McGowan’s previous books include Emancipation After Hegel, Capitalism and Desire, and The Impossible David Lynch amongst others. You can watch him discuss enjoyment as a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp8cxEUSOsI&ab_channel=SublationMediawithDouglasLain">sublated video</a>, or listen to him on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp8cxEUSOsI&ab_channel=SublationMediawithDouglasLain">Diet Soap podcast</a>.

I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get To It

Originating as a response to the 2020 publication of “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate” in Harper’s, Finkelstein’s new book I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It takes aim at both “cancel culture” and “identity politics”. Critiquing everyone from Robin DiAngelo to Barack Obama, Finkelstein delivers a rigorous argument for free expression along with a death blow to leftist hypocrisy. 
 
Norman Finkelstein’s previous books include The Holocaust Industry, Beyond Chutzpah, and Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict among others.