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Alain Deneault 2015 – 224 pages

There was no Reichstag fire. No storming of the Bastille. No mutiny on the Aurora. Instead, the mediocre have seized power without firing a single shot. They rose to power on the tide of an economy where workers produce assembly-line meals without knowing how to cook at home, give customers instructions over the phone that they themselves don’t understand, or sell books and newspapers that they never read. Canadian intellectual juggernaut Alain Deneault has taken on all kinds of evildoers: mining companies, tax-dodgers, and corporate criminals. Now he takes on the most menacing threat of all: the mediocre.

Alain Deneault, a Doctor of Philosophy from the Université Paris-VIII, teaches « critical thinking » in political science at the Université de Montréal. He is also the author of Offshore, Tax Havens and the Rule of Global Crime (The New Press, 2011). « One of the main intellectuals among the Canadian critical left, with Naomi Klein » MORE THAN 50 000 COPIES SOLD Aude Lancelin RIGHTS SOLD ITALY Neri Pozza

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ALSO BY ALAIN DENAULT POLITICS OF THE EXTREME CENTER 2016 – 100 pages Rights sold Italy : Neri Pozza / English Canada : Between The Lines (English rights) / Spanish :Turner Libros / Korean: Gyeol

«GOVERNANCE»: ON TOTALITARIAN MANAGEMENT 2013 – 200 pages Rights sold Italy : Neri Pozza The emotion doctrine

Anne-Cécile Robert 2018 – 176 pages

Emotion has invaded social and political space to the detriment of other means of understanding the world, notably reason. Of course, as Hegel would say, «nothing great in the world has ever been ac- complished without passion», but the empire of affection has beco- me a threat to democracy. It transforms human beings, broken by inequality, into their own executioners, inviting them to weep instead of taking action. After Naomi Klein demonstrated how the « shock doctrine » enables capitalism to thrive in the face of catastrophe, Anne-Cécile Robert analyses how social control is exerted through emotion and studies its most poisonous manifestations: compassio- nate narcissism on social networks, political discourse reduced to preachiness, expansion of the crime and miscellaneous news sections in the media, the staging of silent marches etc. This is a much-needed reflection on the mind-numbing expansion of teardrop territory and a civic appeal to a return to reason.

French journalist Anne-Cécile Robert is a member of the editorial board of Le Monde Diplomatique. Her fields of specialization are European institutions and Africa. She is also associate professor at the Institute of European Studies of the Université Paris-VIII. Brussels, building sites An architectural critique of Europe

Ludovic Lamant 2018 – 224 pages

Nobody understands anything about Europe anymore, its indigestible treaties, its never-ending crises. Taking the expression «european construction» literally, Ludovic Lamant explores the most visible di- mension of the EU: its institutional buildings. Wandering through the streets of the city he loves, the author meets not only the architects and urbanists who designed the European quarter, but also, tellingly, those who were barred from doing so. He encounters the members of parliament and civil servants who make Europe work on a daily basis and those bent on reforming it. The four one-way lanes of the rue de la Loi («Law street»), the wind-corridor of the Solidarnosc esplanade, the caged «space egg» in the new EU Council building: the architectu- ral clutter that disfigures the Belgian capital symbolizes the transfor- mation of a promising political project into a bureaucratic machine. A stroll through the young ruins of an old dream that may still be alive.

Ludovic Lamant is a member of the editorial board of the independent news site Mediapart. From 2012 to 2017 he was the Brussels-based correspondent and covered the European and Spanish crises.

ALSO BY LUDOVIC LAMANT SQUATTING POWER OCCUPYING CITY HALLS IN SPAIN On Ada Colau, Manuela Carmena and the Spanish rebel mayors. Those Who Laugh

A Tribute to my Innu Friends

Serge Bouchard & Marie-Christine Lévesque 2017 – 320 pages

The Innus have been living on the land that is now called Quebec for more than three thousand years. These nomadic people were the first to establish commercial and cultural relations with the Europeans. Today, they form a nation of eighteen thousand members, distributed in eleven communities and their language and culture have survived to the settling down and the other devastating effects of colonialism. Their land, Borealia, was Serge Bouchard’s field of study when he started his graduate studies in anthropology and ever since then, after 50 years of profound friendship, he has stayed close to these women and men who’s resilience is impetuous. And now, the Innus have chosen him, Kauishtut, the «bearded man», to write their history in a book that is probably one of the most beautiful and strong that Lux has ever published.

Serge Bouchard is an anthropologist, an essayist and a radio host. He specializes in First Nations cultures and nordicity and has studied the “Middle-North” and the Great North, Yukon and Nunavik. He was awarded an Governor General’s Literary Award in 2017. Stolen Sisters Emmanuelle Walter 224 pages

Canada has only recently been rocked by the brutal violence against young Aboriginal women. An official report revealed that since 1980, at least 1 200 Canadian Aboriginal women have been murdered or have gone missing. This alarming official figure reveals a national tragedy and the systemic failure of law enforcement and of all levels of government to address the issue. Journalist Emmanuelle Walter spent two years investigating this crisis and has crafted a moving representative account of the disappearance of two young women, Maisy Odjick and Shannon Alexander, teenagers who have been missing since September 2008. Through personal testimonies, interviews, press clippings and official documents, Walter pieces together the disappearance and loss of these two young lives, revealing these young women through the voices of family members and witnesses. Stolen Sisters is a moving and deeply shocking work of investigative journalism that makes the claim that not only is Canada failing First Nations communities, but that a feminicide is taking place.

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The Centre of the World Emmanuelle Walter 152 pages

At the beginning of Summer 2015, Emmanuelle Walter travelled across James Bay, in Quebec, with her local guide, the aboriginal leader Romeo Saganash: negotiator for the UN Declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples and MP of a district the size of a continent.With country music in the background, he told his story and the story of his homeland, in a pickup truck with stop- overs in a dozen towns and communities. This road story depicts a vast and essential yet widely unknown part of Quebec, a land defaced by extractivism and global warming, but actively co-governed and managed by Canada’s first Cree and white Francophone municipality. Thanks to her guide, the author discovers a changing landscape, an unsuspected political laboratory and surprising characters : those who find creative and complex ways of living together on the Canadian Shield bedrock.

Emmanuelle Walter is an independent journalist. She has worked for Liberation, Le Nouvel Observateur, ARTE Radio and Terra eco. Originally from France, she lives in Montreal. Indigenous Army

The Defeat of Napoleon in Haïti

Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec 2014 – 288 pages

Valmy, Austerlitz, Ulm, Waterloo… so many battles whose names are so familiar to us. But who, outside of Haiti, has ever heard of the Batt- le of Vertières, that spectacular and bloody culmination of the Haitian Revolution? Who is aware that the clash resulted, in 1803, in one of the worst de- feats of the Napoleonic wars? Or that the Black Haitians were making demands in line with the ideals of the Revolution? Those that know this history are few and far between, because France, defeated, set to work erasing every trace of its embarrassment. Yet this battle should be recognized as a milestone: its outcome, disastrous to the French colonial power, irreparably cracked the foundations of slavery. In this work, Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec describes the unbelievable vio- lence of this war between masters and former slaves, between the troops of Generals Leclerc and Rochambeau and the so-called Indige- nous Army of Jean-Jacques Dessalines. He questions the meaning of the erasure of this battle from French history, as well as the troubled place it holds in the memory of the Haitian elite, as a symbol of eman- cipation sometimes cumbrous to those who would maintain practices of enslavement.

Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec is an associate professor of history at the Université de Sherbrooke. He teaches American and Haitian history, as well as the history of Blacks in the Americas.

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Political Agoraphilia and Agoraphobia

Francis Dupuis-Déri 2016 - 464 pages

While some view popular movements as the perfect embodiment of direct democracy, others only see them as, while sympathetic, essentially insignificant mobilizations. That is, when they are not trying to outright discredit them through accusations of violence. Drawing upon a profound knowledge of the field and of the history of democratic practices, Francis Dupuis-Déri presents the struggle between political agoraphobia and agoraphilia – the hatred and love of direct democracy – revealing the arguments and tactics of both sides.

Francis Dupuis-Déri is a professor of political science at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM).

ALSO BY FRANCIS DUPUIS-DÉRI DEMOCRACY: THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF A WORD

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Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval 2017 - 296 pages

The bolshevik myth is worn out. It only remains a significant reference for a few sinister regimes and a handful of sects, clutching to dried out emblems, rituals and phrases. What’s the use, then, of talking about it? The repression of this history risks blinding us on the persistence of practices that are a direct inheritance of bolshevism : open or covert verticalism around a leader, the cult of the nation-state, obsession with the assumption of power through the means of insurrection, rejection of democracy and of autonomous self-organisation forms… All these elements compose « the shadow of October ».

The Bolshevik seizing of power has been a disaster for the Worker’s Movement and for emancipation itself. It is important to understand its deep logic and the structural continuity between the sovereign Party and the national State : Bolshevism was the fanatical and delirious climax of the western doctrine on state sovereignty. Turning its back on this type of state communism, a politics of the commons is in the course of inventing itself. Reviving another set of revolutionary experiments and instantiating the democratic principle of self-government.

Pierre Dardot is a philosopher and researcher at the Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre. Christian Laval is Professor of Sociology at the same intitution. Together they have published various books which have been translated in many languages.

Also by Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval The New Way of the World (La Découverte, Verso, Gedisa, Derive Approdi) Commons (La Découverte, Derive Approdi) Ce cauchemar qui n’en finit pas (La Découverte, Derive Approdi)

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SPAIN Gedisa Pierre Guyotat Politics

Measuring life against history

Julien Lefort-Favreau

What is the power of literature? What is the political impact of « experi- mental » writing? From his beginnings with Tombeau pour cinq cent mille soldats and Éden, Éden, Éden, true indictments against French colonial violence, to his recent autobiographical trilogy that reveals a strong sensitivity to all forms of social domination, Pierre Guyotat’s writing has always been political. More than offering a simple monograph on an author who is often described as both abstruse and outrageous, Julien Lefort-Favreau highlights the political and aesthetic coherence of Guyo- tat’s work. He thus demonstrates the relevance of contemporary French literature when it questions the place of art in society and unites contes- tation with stylistic experiment, acknowledgement of historical defeats with hope, self assertion with desire for anonymity, autobiography with history. Borrowing from Jacques Rancière and Judith Butler’s thinking, this essay finds in Guyotat’s work food for rethinking politics through literature. Billy Wilder

Film, politics and the weight of history

Emmanuel Burdeau

Billy Wilder is admired for the free spirit of his comedies, the darkness of his dramas and his bold perspective on the world. An essential dimen- sion of his films is however often overlooked : their heft. It’s not only that his cinema isn’t afraid of appearing caustic or bawdy. In Wilder’s films, things are heavy, literally. Holding, falling, rising, moving under constraint are recurring motives that flow as much through his most fa- mous pictures, such as Sunset Boulevard and The Apartment, as through the lesser known ones, such as The Spirit of Saint Louis. This essay seeks, on the one hand, to paint the portrait of a film maker who was more aware than any other of the weight of history, both in the United States and in Germany, albeit in different ways. On the other hand, it shows how Wilder can be seen as the brilliant successor of Ernst Lu- bitsch, for whom he worked as a screen writer and whom he considered a master in lightness. What is the meaning of gravity in Wilder’s cinema? How do these gravities touch upon both history of cinema and history? Answering all of these questions at once, this essay deeply renews our vision of one of Hollywood’s brightest creative lights. About us Translation grants LUX is one of the leading independent radical publishing The Canada Council for the Arts houses in the French-speaking world, with a catalogue that provides assistance to foreign spans social history and publishers for the first translation political thought in America and Europe – a community of literary works by Canadian of writers who have made authors, into languages other than unique contributions French or English, for publication to understanding and changing the world. abroad. For further details, visit their website: www.canadacouncil.ca

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The Case Against Universal Income under the translation programme Seth Ackerman, Mateo Alaluf, Jean-Marie Harribey, Daniel Zamora of SODEC: What is a Socialist Government? www.sodec.gouv.qc.ca What is dead and what lives in socialism Franck Fischbach

The Significance of the Social. The Power of Cooperation Franck Fischbach

The Political Economy of the XXIst century François Morin

Your Steak is a Dead Animal Martin Gibert

Walmart. Diary of an Associate Hugo Meunier

Remarkable Forgottens Serge Bouchard and Marie-Christine Lévesque

Illusions. Concise Guide to Media Critique Simon Tremblay-Pepin Rights Manager Fighting Back Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois

The Day America Saw War. 1943: the trauma of the Battle of Tarawa Alexandre Sánchez Cyril Azouvi

Anglo-Saxon Marxism: Contemporary Figures [email protected] Jonathan Martineau

The Disunited States Vladimir Pozner www.luxediteur.com