Revol Press is a new author-run and oriented publisher dedicated to putting out solid left wing theory.
Our goal is to revive countercultural dreaming alongside incisive materialism, emphasizing quality over ‘edgy’ content and hot takes, putting out considered yet incisive reflections in a timely manner. We aim to support established writers and discover new talent, prioritizing fair royalties, ongoing dialogue, and an emphasis on quality essays and books that promote formal and theoretical innovation.
Our writers are part of a collective effort in publishing, not only making competitive royalties from their own book but taking a percentage of profits from all other books we produce and sell.
Revol is here to reassert the creative opposition of the author, in solidarity. Where once you paid lip service to the revolution and were considered credible, now you can build something revolutionary without compromise.
Our first run of books will include works by Tony Chamas (aka 1Dime), Bram E. Gieben, Adam Turl, Dan Melo, C. Derick Varn, Mike Watson
Email us: revolpress@revol.com
Team
Revol Press has assembled a team of Readers, which includes its co-founders, as well as current and prospective writers.
Daniel Melo (co-founder) is a public sector immigration lawyer in the American Southeast who primarily works with refugees and the son of a migrant himself. His book, Borderlines, came out in August 2021 (Zero Books).
Mike Watson (co-founder) is a theorist, critic and curator who is principally focused on the relation between culture, new media and politics. He has written for Jacobin, Radical Philosophy, Hyperallergic, Frieze and has curated events at the 55th and 56th Venice Biennale, and Manifesta 12, Palermo. In September 2021 he published his third book, The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What to Do About It (Zero Books). He has a PhD from Goldsmiths College and has taught across Europe. His book Hungry Ghosts in the Machine -- Digital Capitalism and the Search for Self is forthcoming from Revol in 2024.
Parvez Alam is a writer and researcher. His interdisciplinary writings encompass areas such as culture, politics, history, religion and philosophy. In recent years, his research and writing interests have increasingly moved towards the unveiling of various political-theological entanglements of contemporary popular culture. He is studying a PhD at the University of Amsterdam.
David Blacker is Professor of Philosophy of Education and Legal Studies at the University of Delaware and is the author of The Falling Rate of Learning and the Neoliberal Endgame (Zero Books) and the forthcoming Deeper Learning with Psychedelics: An Educational Framework for Altered States (SUNY, 2024).
Patrícia Correia Rico has a Masters Degree in Medicine and currently works as a Medical Doctor in the Portuguese National Health Service. Additionally, she is a Ph.D. candidate at University of Évora, focusing on the intersection between mental health and politics in the digital age.
Emma Stamm is Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Farmingdale State College-SUNY. Her research is in critical theory, new media studies, and poststructuralism. She is interested in the relationship between subjectivity and the digital commodification of the psyche. Her doctoral dissertation explored these issues through the lens of psychedelic drug research.
Ernesto Vargas is a Human Resources manager and psychoanalyst from Durango, México. They hold a degree in Psychology from the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM for short) a diploma in Gestalt therapy and one in psychoanalysis, where their thesis covered the representation of psychosomatic ailments in Death Stranding. They are currently studying an MA in Instituto 17, a Critical Theory postgraduate school in México.
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