Common Notions

07/07/2025

"I loved this book! DIVERSITY OF AESTHETICS is a gorgeous, provocative, insightful collection that contends with the thorniest, most important questions that emerge from our forced entanglement with colonial institutions—universities, art museums, immigration regimes, welfare authorities and more. The conversations in this collection contend with longstanding dilemmas and recent current events that shape how we understand resistance to facilitate new discernment for practicing solidarity."

Great blurb from Dean Spade, author of MUTUAL AID and LOVE IN A F*CKED-UP WORLD

Ask for this "provocative, insightful collection" at your local indie bookstores and public libraries. Or order it from our site! commonnotions.org

07/05/2025

Join us at the P.I.T. Friday, 7/11 for a conversation with WHY WE FEAR AI co-author, Hagen Blix!

6-8PM | 411 South 5th Street, Brooklyn, NY

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06/26/2025

BORDERTOWN CLASHES, RESOURCE WARS, CONTESTED TERRITORIES hits bookstores in less than a week!

Take advantage of our ongoing pre-order sale, and save 25%. Head to our site and use the code PREORDER before 6/30 11:59 PM ET. https://buff.ly/NdjVgjY

06/24/2025

Happy pub day to DIVERSITY OF AESTHETICS! Edited by and .

This summer pick collects critical conversations and reflections about lessons learned at the intersection of social movements and artist production.

Order your copy on our site. And please remember to hydrate!

06/23/2025

Nafis Hasan and his book, METASTASIS, got a shoutout in the Red Emmas newsletter. Thank you Meg!

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06/18/2025

DIVERSITY OF AESTHETICS, edited by Andreas Petrossiants and Jose Rosales, was chosen as a FRIEZE summer read!

Order a copy by 6/23 11:59 PM ET to save 25% with the code PREORDER
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06/16/2025

The radical solutions of the past can be a blueprint for us today as we struggle to thrive while living alongside the very people who enact laws against our trans family, menace our q***r neighbors, abduct our migrant friends—imprisoning, brutalizing, and killing us under color of law. In Argentina, people leaned into escrache. Learn from their experience.

Support your ongoing study with a free copy of the GENOCIDE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD e-book. Use the code PEOPLEPOWER at checkout through the end of the month.

📚 www.commonnotions.org/genocide-in-the-neighborhood

06/13/2025

We're so excited to release DIVERSITY OF AESTHETICS towards the end of the month!

A collection of three volumes, this reprint features conversations among leading cultural critics, artists, and organizers. Their conversations connect the threads between some of the most pressing social struggles and conflicts of our time: policing, war, borders and migration, and economic crisis.

Common to all three conversations is a commitment to rethinking the relationship between forms of critique and forms of struggle undertaken by collective social practices. We can't wait to get this book into your hands.

Order a copy by 6/23 11:59 PM ET to save 25%! Use the discount code PREORDER at checkout, and you'll save on all of our forthcoming titles. 🙌

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06/04/2025

New book for those who are into labor history and pop culture!

STRIKE WHILE THE NEEDLE IS HOT, by and Kennedy Block, takes readers through the militant sounds and rebellious rhythms of labor’s greatest hits preserved on vinyl.

We're so excited to bring this book into the world, that we're making it available before the official pub date in September. Order directly from our site, and your book will be on its way!

Even better, order now through the end of June and get 15% off with the code STRIKE15.

And if you want to learn more about how this project came together, Josh and Kennedy will be on 's THIS IS THE MODERN WORLD with Trouble tomorrow 6/5. Tune in around 10:30am ET.

https://www.commonnotions.org/strike-while-the-needle-is-hot

05/24/2025

"Steven Salaita has crafted two engaging characters in DAUGHTER, SON, ASSASSIN—both likeable, even in dire circumstances. This novel is a look into the brutality of a regime, and a focused treatise on revenge, as we journey with a father struggling for his life, and his daughter who will stop at nothing to seek retribution."

Some bookseller love from Rebekah Rine at Watermark Books in Wichita, KS!

05/22/2025

Laina Hanna & Josh MacPhee were recently on Under the Tree Podcast discussing ARMED BY DESIGN.

Listen for a great conversation on solidarity through design! https://buff.ly/OXWxJM0

Solidarity takes on many forms but for over four decades one vivid example rose out of a design and print studio in Havana, Cuba. Born in 1966 out of the Tricontinental Conference the Organization …

05/20/2025

What do we mean when we say abolition?

Join us this Thursday, May 22nd, for the launch of ABOLITION AND RECONSTRUCTION!

We're delighted to host what promises to be an insightful and captivating discussion with Melissa Ferrer Civil, Joy James, and Dylan Rodriguez. The speakers will share lessons learned during the George Floyd rebellions, offer a broader perspective on abolition, and explore the significance of collective study and struggle today.

Don't miss this virtual event! Register for event access -> https://buff.ly/XmcqrTt