Paul Rekret is the author of three books- Down With Childhood- Pop Music and the Crisis of Innocence (2017); Derrida and Foucault- Philosophy, Politics, Polemics (2018); Monopolated Light and Power (with Edward George, Louis Moreno, Ashwani Sharma (forthcoming)), and editor of George Caffentzis's Clipped Coins, Abused Words & Civil Government (2021). He has published on political and cultural theory in journals such as Theory, Culture & Society, Constellations, South Atlantic Quarterly and his writing has appeared in Frieze, The Wire, Art Monthly, The New Inquiry, and elsewhere. He is a member of Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective and works on sound and ecological crisis as part of Amplification/Annihilation. He is a Lecturer in the School of Media and Communications at the University of Westminster.
""While the relationship between music and social relations has long been the subject of critical reflection, few authors have dealt so forcefully and minutely with contemporary analysis of work, song, and crisis. Take This Hammer is a brilliant intervention and a generative force for hope."" —Glen Billesbach, Critical Inquiry