Common Notions

01/08/2026

“There’s an eliminationist impulse in this thing called fascism, that it’s not just about taking something over or imposing order, but it’s actually reducing the other, whatever that other might be.”

Jack Bratich and John Armenta discuss some of the key points in ON MICROFASCISM for the New Books Network.

Listen to the interview on the New Books Network website 👇

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12/13/2025

Previously thought to be "unorganizable," tech workers are part of a North American movement that is reaffirming faith in collective revolutionary action.

They're using new methods of organizing, new ways of association, and a new synthesis of traditional labor activities with original research.

To capture this growing class consciousness, the Capacitor Collective has conducted interviews with platform workers and organizers. This text shakes up the worker inquiry tradition and imagines new ways of producing knowledge WITH and for the movement.

NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY is available now. Ask for it at your local bookstore or library ⚡️

12/10/2025

✨ All of our ebooks are $5 through the end of the month!

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12/08/2025

Jack Bratich, author of ON MICROFASCISM, was recently on This Wreckage (previously Antifada).

Tune in to hear him chat about the concept of "microfascism."

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12/04/2025

Andreas Petrossiants and Andrew Ross talked about THE WEATHER REPORT for e-flux.

Listen here >> https://buff.ly/bFcpYrG

12/02/2025

Happy pub day to Ata Nahai's BIRDS IN A GALE!

Originally published in 2002, this is a poignant, psychological, and deeply political effort by one of Kurdistan’s best-loved writers to restore the Kurds to their rightful place in revolutionary history.

Translated by Chiya Parvizpur and Hourieh Maleki Qouzloo of Henar Press.

Available at your favorite bookstore and our site: https://buff.ly/edeUn4d

11/26/2025

"BIRDS IN A GALE is a layered, self-reflexive novel, a literary resurrection of a silenced, stateless nation...at once political and metaphysical." —Ava Homa, DAUGHTERS OF SMOKE AND FIRE

A classic from Kurdish writer Ata Nahai, coming soon to English readers.

Read an excerpt: https://buff.ly/9MXRWic

11/24/2025

Spring titles are up! Head to our site to see what's in the works for 2026.

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11/12/2025

“This essential book articulates and embodies ethical knowledge production amidst the rising tide of tech authoritarianism. It centers tech worker struggle and revives workers’ inquiry as the site of knowledge production and resistance. It is an inspiring and critical corrective to the proliferation of apolitical research on Big Tech.”

Veena Dubal, Professor of Law at UC Irvine on NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY

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11/06/2025

Coming soon: Ata Nahai's BIRDS IN A GALE!

Some years after the overthrow of the Shah, Mehraban has returned to Iran after a period of wandering and isolation to write the story of a famed Kurdish revolutionary named Farhad. Guided by our unnamed narrator, Mehraban pursues his story and its living-dead subject, learning that he and Farhad share bittersweet memories of a lost love amid fractured historical nightmares. Trapped in consciousness, trapped by mortality, trapped in a world that is not and cannot be objective, BIRDS IN A GALE turns in on itself, entangling Mehraban’s and Farhad’s once-separate identities irrevocably, before rejecting the objective altogether.

Originally published in 2002, this is a poignant, psychological, and deeply political effort by one of Kurdistan’s best-loved writers to restore the Kurds to their rightful place in revolutionary history. This inventive metatext, lucidly translated by Chiya Parvizpur and Hourieh Maleki Qouzloo, is reminiscent of the best of George Saunders and Elias Khoury, and an instant classic of twenty-first century world literature.

Available 12/2/2025, preorder with BIRDSINAGALE to save 25%: www.commonnotions.org/birds-in-a-gale

11/04/2025

Happy pub day to NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY.

The rank and file are now coming from precarious new “gig jobs” and drawing strength from a class of worker who does what computers still cannot. Previously thought to be “unorganizable,” these workers are part of a North American movement that is reaffirming faith in collective revolutionary action through new methods of organizing, new ways of association, and a new synthesis of traditional labor activities with original research.

To capture this growing class consciousness, The Capacitor Collective has conducted interviews with platform workers and organizers whose efforts align traditional motives with new tactics in a text that shakes up the worker inquiry tradition and imagines new ways to produce knowledge with and for the movement.

Available now via our site, your local library, or favorite bookstore!

www.commonnotions.org/notes-toward-a-digital-workers-inquiry

10/27/2025

NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY by The Capacitor Collective is coming soon!

Who are they? The Capacitor Collective is a research collective that uses worker inquiry to build digital worker power from below. They're also organizers who understand the importance of prioritizing and amplifying workers' voices. Their forthcoming book is a collection of interviews that challenge the stereotype that the tech industry is unorganizable.

NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY is an eye-opening and inspiring read. Preorder your copy to save a few bucks and get a free zine on the history of workers’ inquiry! https://buff.ly/PwI942X