ephemera: books available for review
ephemera welcomes book reviews! ephemera is an independent ‘diamond open access’ journal concerned with the theory and politics of organisation.
The journal especially welcomes book reviews from independent, alternative or underground publishers and is particularly open to submissions that engage with the work reviewed in relation to issues around organisation, theory, and politics rather than simply offering a chapter-by-chapter synopsis. The journal publishes the following types of reviews:
1. Standard book reviews (usually up to 2000 words) of new, recent, classic or overlooked publications.
2. Discussion reviews of more than one book (usually between 2000-4000 words).
3. Book forums, in which two or more reviewers and the author of the book engage in a dialogue (1000 words per review).
4. Cultural ephemera reviews, such as fiction, film, art, exhibitions, music, poetry, theatre, television, comics, performance, digital, or any other type of media (usually up to 2000 words). Please get in touch with your ideas.
The following books are currently available for review (please see attached for a detailed list):
• Alakavuklar, Ozan. (2024) Organizing food, faith, and freedom: Imagining alternatives. Bristol: Bristol University Press. (154 pages) ISBN 978-1529216240
• Aoun, Joseph E. (2024) Robot-proof higher education in the age of artificial intelligence. The MIT Press. (224 pages) ISBN 9780262549851
• Bender, E.M and Hanna, A. (2025) The AI Con: How to fight big tech’s hype and create the future we want. Harper Collins (288 pages) ISBN 978-1847928610
• Copland, Simon. (2025) The male complaint: The manosphere and misogyny online. Polity Press. (208 pages) ISBN: 9781509562558
• Durand, Cédric. (2024) How Silicon Valley unleashed techno-feudalism: The making of the digital economy, translated by David Broder. (256 pages) ISBN 9781804294390
• Gent, Craig. (2024) Cyberboss: The rise of algorithmic management and the new struggle for control at work by (256 pages) ISBN 9781839768552
• Heron, K, Milburn, K and Russell, B. (2025 forthcoming) Radical abundance: How to win a green democratic future. (400 pages) ISBN: 9780745351353
• Kostera, M. (2024) The university of hope. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (208 pages) ISBN 9780198892915
• Kenny, K. (2024) Regulators of last resort. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (266 pages) ISBN 9781009425629
• Lewis, S. (2025) Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, policewomen, and girlbosses against liberation. Haymarket Books. (320 pages) ISBN 9798888902493
• Lutz, H (2025) The backstage of the care economy: Transnational perspectives on the commercialisation of care. Pluto Press. (240 pages) ISBN 9780745345369
• Massanari, Adrienne L. (2024) Gaming democracy: How Silicon Valley leveled up the far right. The MIT Press. (238 pages) ISBN: 9780262549417
• Nadasen, P. (2023) Care: The highest stage of capitalism. Haymarket Books. (288 pages) ISBN 9781642599664
• Proctor, Hannah. (2024) Burnout: The emotional experience of political defeat. Verso Books (272 pages) ISBN 9781839766053
• Quan, H.L.T. (2024) Become ungovernable: An abolition feminist ethic for democratic living. Pluto Press (328 pages) ISBN 9780745349114
• Slobodian, Q. (2025) Hayek's bastards: Race, gold, IQ, and the capitalism of the far right. New York: Zone Books. (272 pages) ISBN: 9781890951917
Selected Publishers:
•Verso Books - https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb
•MayFly Books - https://mayflybooks.org/
•Transcript - https://www.transcript-publishing.com/
•AK Press - https://www.akpress.org/
•Zero Books - https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/
•Haymarket Books - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/
• Pluto Press - https://www.plutobooks.com/
If you would like to review an available book or suggest another work for review, please contact the reviews team Charlotte Cator and Benjamin Richards at the following address: reviews@ephemerajournal.org.