{"product_id":"radical-intimacy-1","title":"Radical Intimacy","description":"\u003cp\u003eCapitalist ideology wants us to believe that there is an optimal way to live. 'Making connections' means networking for work. Our emotional needs are to be fulfilled by a single romantic partner, and self-care equates to taking personal responsibility for our suffering. We must be productive and heterosexual, we must have babies and buy a house. But the kicker is most people cannot and do not want to achieve all, or any of these life goals. Instead we are left feeling atomised, exhausted and disempowered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRadical Intimacy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eshows that it doesn't need to be this way. A punchy and impassioned account of inspiring ideas about alternative ways to live, Sophie K Rosa demands we use our radical imagination to discover a new form of intimacy and to transform our personal lives and in turn society as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncluding critiques of the 'wellness' industry that ignores rising poverty rates, the mental health crisis and racist and misogynist state violence; transcending love and sex under capitalism to move towards feminist, decolonial and queer thinking; asking whether we should abolish the family; interrogating the framing of ageing and death and much more,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRadical Intimacy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the compassionate antidote to a callous society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51013232886090,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/5474\/2858\/files\/Captured_ecran2025-06-07161603.jpg?v=1749305776","url":"https:\/\/archive-books-berlin.myshopify.com\/products\/radical-intimacy-1","provider":"Archive Souq","version":"1.0","type":"link"}