Common Notions Press
Nonprofit, movement-based, and worker-run publisher of books that provide timely reflections, clear critiques, and inspiring strategies that amplify movements for social justice.
📍Philadelphia
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www.commonnotions.org
- Philly, join us, @justmaybechris.bsky.social, and karim at the Blackwell Regional Library to celebrate MY CITY NEED SOMETHING: PORTRAITS AND PROSE FOR BLACK EXISTENCE! Saturday 2/14 12-2pm We'll be selling copies of the book at a discounted price. See you there Event details: tinyurl.com/2m9at7dh
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- "...workers know their workplaces best, and can participate in the study of their own struggles, and learn from similar studies by workers in other struggles." Read an excerpt of STRIKE WHILE THE NEEDLE IS HOT! on @thewiremagazine.bsky.social: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/b...
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- Join Capacitor Collective as they celebrate the release of NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY, "an exemplary demonstration of how inquiry can function simultaneously as a mode of collective action and a form of critical theory." 2/12/26 in Toronto and 2/13/26 Montreal. Save the dates!
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- What Goes Around Comes Around: On Reading the World and Hearing the Word by @justmaybechris.bsky.social agatheringtogether.squarespace.com/blog/what-go...
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- “A historiography of a Black Existence that blooms with the care & criticism of its poetry and photography.” —@ill-iterate.com MY CITY NEED SOMETHING: PORTRAITS & PROSE FOR BLACK EXISTENCE by @justmaybechris.bsky.social & Karim Brown hits the shelves next month! Preorder now: buff.ly/l8tXv0M
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- 👀 😍 Spotted at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social: BORDERTOWN CLASHES, RESOURCE WARS, CONTESTED TERRITORIES by John Redhouse! A one-of-a-kind lyrical and fast-paced memoir of the frontlines and trenches of Native liberation in the Four Corners and Southwest in the 1970s. buff.ly/2feKGAl
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- As we look forward to what's in store for 2026, we want to celebrate & uplift some of the love that our books and authors received in 2025. Thank you to everyone who bought, reviewed, or recommended a Common Notions book; also to those who hosted our authors or joined them in conversation 🖤 . . .
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- "It’s not just the sphere of representation, certainly not the sphere of high art, but everyday life, everyday relationships, everyday meaning making." Jack Bratich on culture for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social with @johnarmenta.bsky.social. Listen to the full interview: buff.ly/ES9litI
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- We're delighted that Kurdish literature is gaining traction in the West, so much so that we now have @henarpress.bsky.social! Here's a great @arablit.bsky.social interview with their publisher, Aryan: arablit.org/2025/09/11/a...
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- ✨ All of our ebooks are $5 through the end of the month! And for those who prefer physical books—all orders over $50 get free shipping with FREESHIPPING2025 🙌 👉 buff.ly/aeH7aMH
- "This brilliant text explains and exemplifies the practice of 'Workers Inquiry' as applied to Big Tech. Critical, self-reflexive, partisan, rich in radical analysis..." —Nick Dyer-Witheford, co-author of CYBERNETIC CIRCULATION COMPLEX (@versobooks.bsky.social)
- Jack Bratich, author of ON MICROFASCISM, was recently on @thiswreckage.bsky.social. Tune in to hear him chat about the concept of "microfascism." ⚡️ buff.ly/zFktBC9
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- Andreas Petrossiants and Andrew Ross talked about THE WEATHER REPORT for e-flux. Listen here >> buff.ly/bFcpYrG
- 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. Available now: buff.ly/edeUn4d
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- "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 the Kurdish writer Ata Nahai, coming soon to English readers. Read an excerpt: buff.ly/9MXRWic
- Spring titles are up! Head to our site to see what's in the works for 2026. buff.ly/NqASLux
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- "This essential book articulates and embodies ethical knowledge production amidst the rising tide of tech authoritarianism...It is an inspiring and critical corrective to the proliferation of apolitical research on Big Tech." —@veenadubal.bsky.social ⚡️ buff.ly/eFJqFWQ
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- Attending the Historical Materialism Conference in London? Join @americanwork47.bsky.social for a free, public talk on The American Worker pamphlet, workers’ inquiry, and the contemporary labor movement! MayDay Rooms | Monday, 10 November | 19:00 Register >> buff.ly/mCOoGBF
- Benjamin Shepard and Jay Blotcher (ACT UP) will be at Blue Heron Books in High Falls, NY tomorrow 11/8. Swing by for a lively discussion on social movements, friendship, and conflict! Event info and RSVP: www.blueheronbooksny.com/events/ben-s...
- Attending London’s Historical Materialism? Join Common Notions collaborator Kevin Van Meter for a free public talk on The American Worker pamphlet, workers’ inquiry, and the contemporary labor movement at MayDay Rooms in London on Monday 10 November at 19:00! events.maydayrooms.org/e/71/searchi...
- Coming soon: Ata Nahai's BIRDS IN A GALE! 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 buff.ly/gPonUhf
- "Shows that successful organizing across the digital supply chain will depend on workers' own knowledge about the labor process, as well as their creativity and capacity to act." —Adam D.K. King NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY > www.commonnotions.org/notes-toward-a-digital-workers-inquiry
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- Happy pub day to NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY! "An exemplary demonstration of how inquiry can function simultaneously as a mode of collective action and a form of critical theory." —Leopoldina Fortunati, THE ARCANA OF REPRODUCTION buff.ly/QVbuVFe
- "An indispensable primary source for understanding how a marginalized people stood up to reshape the heart of Diné Country/the Four Corners." Dr. Matthias Andre Voigt, author of REINVENTING THE WARRIOR on BORDERTOWN CLASHES by John Redhouse. www.commonnotions.org/bordertown-clashes
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- The Capacitor Collective uses worker inquiry to build digital worker power from below. Their forthcoming book, NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY, is a collection of interviews that challenge the stereotype that the tech industry is unorganizable. Out 11/4, preorder today: buff.ly/PwI942X
- "There must also be pressure to end the unsparing detention of the thousands of Palestinians who continue to be held in Israel’s prisons..." New op-ed by Andrew Ross for @nytimes.com: buff.ly/QEivlBY
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- Catch the author of ON ACTIVISM, FRIENDSHIPS, AND FIGHTING at two New York events this fall! 10/29 at The CUNY Graduate Center from 3-4pm @gcsocialwelfare.bsky.social 11/8 in High Falls, NY at @blueheronbooksny.bsky.social buff.ly/kNsPScd
- "There can be no doubt, however, that Israel’s war on prisoners was the third front in its assault on Gaza and the West Bank..." Andrew Ross for @nytopinion.nytimes.com.
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- "It's a galvanizing and hopeful vision of a world in which liberation is within everyone’s reach." —@publisherswkly.bsky.social New review for @yaffasutopia.bsky.social's LETTERS FROM A LIVING UTOPIA
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- Coming soon: BIRDS IN A GALE Originally published in 2002, BIRDS IN A GALE is a poignant, psychological, and deeply political novel by one of Kurdistan’s best-loved writers, Ata Nahai. Translated by Chiya Parvizpur & Hourieh Maleki Qouzloo Available 11/25 Learn more and preorder: buff.ly/703nyCs
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- Experience labor history, and listen to some of its greatest hits in the STRIKE WHILE THE NEEDLE IS HOT mixtape. Order the book, and add the tape for $5. We have a limited supply of the mixtape, so order your bundle while you can! www.commonnotions.org/strike-while-the-needle-is-hot
- 30 SWANA books to look out for as 2025 starts to wrap up. We're thrilled to see @yaffasutopia.bsky.social's LETTERS FROM A LIVING UTOPIA in good company with titles by authors such as Leila Chatti, Anbara Salam, Aymann Ismail, and our very own Ata Nahai. Thank you, Samia! @rawi-news.bsky.social
- "There’s a material reality in which AI really is a tool of control. But maybe there’s also another way of thinking about it..." @hagenblix.bsky.social & @bcmerchant.bsky.social on how we talk about AI and alternative ways to frame the conversation.
- "I don’t just organise as a trans person; my organising is trans....this is such a powerful thing that we can utilise to really transform the world and build a collectively liberated world." Anna Hu & @yaffasutopia.bsky.social for ARCHER MAGAZINE
- Happy pub day to LETTERS FROM A LIVING UTOPIA!! @yaffasutopia.bsky.social www.commonnotions.org/letters-from-a-living-utopia
- NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY by The Capacitor Collective delivers first-hand accounts from the tech sector’s burgeoning labor movement. Preorders save a couple bucks and get a free zine on the history of workers' inquiries! Checkout with coupon code DIGITALWORKERS: buff.ly/9Li5A3U
