“This is a fine and rousing book, and required reading for Messrs Miliband and Cruddas. What its heroic authors say is true, timely and damned difficult. But to outface the monster of corporate capitalism, protean, international but nonetheless fissiparous, often cowardly, always corrupt, Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift have contrived this novel and vigorous weapon of dissent, so much required to fight the rough beast of a new epoch now slouching towards Wall Street to be born." — Fred Inglis, Times Higher Education
“This book makes a much-needed attempt to revamp the Left’s struggle to ‘voice a politics of social equality and justice’. Problematizing the Left’s ongoing failure to capture and cohere people’s aspirations, to organize politically and to secure achievements, they focus on an essential and, as they rightly claim, neglected aspect of Left politics: the art of doing politics." — Jessica Schmidt, Radical Philosophy
“Arts of the Political provides some significant intellectual insights and political challenges.” — Dave Featherstone, Society & Space
“One of the elements I enjoyed most about Arts of the Political is how Amin and Thrift engage with a range of contemporary political theory in a way that makes it relatively accessible. Part of this is because, while the book has a point and a political goal, it really isn’t polemical. . . . one of the reasons why I think this book is worthwhile is that even when it fails to mention a particular author or movement, the reader is able to use it as a way to better understand their own engagement in the world.” — Mark Trekson, Mobilizing Ideas blog
"This book is about what the Left should be proud of, what it can do to recapture the imagination of peoples to energize them into social action, and what horizons lay ahead in terms of actionable strategies. . . . [M]any of us interested in tipping the scales of justice on the side of integrity and dignity should be reading this wonderful and very useful book.” — Eduardo Mendieta, City
"The authors of this provocative and insightful book promote an attitude of innovation and experimentation as a means to revive the fortunes of the western Left." — James Martin, European Political Science
"A call for more experimentation and openended creativity balanced with political pragmatism and organisational drive." — Alan Toplisek, Political Studies Review
"The fundamental question of this exciting book is not 'What is the Left?' Instead, Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift provoke us to ask what are the new ways of being human in the twenty-first century and what are the new forms of political action to meet these challenges." — David Stark, author of The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life
"The Left urgently needs redefinition and rejuvenation during a time when the forces of the Right are highly mobilized, blowback from several nonhuman forces has intensified, and a progressive formation will take the form of a pluralist assemblage. Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift confront these issues in creative ways, as they explore the levels and modes needed to activate a progressive movement. This is a bracing and timely book." — William E. Connolly, author of A World of Becoming