Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Protean Magazine (Publisher Steven Monacelli, Editor-in-Chief Tyler Walicek, Associate Editor Jake Romm, and Poetry Editor Dominick Knowles) visits our offices in New York City and the team makes their way through the Verso Archive, sharing some of the titles that have influenced their work.

View the accompanying reading list here:
versobooks.com/blogs/news/the-verso-archive-featuring-protean-magazine?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=archive_protean

Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing over one hundred books a year.

00:00 Introduction
01:00 Class War by Mark Steven
01:55 Inventing the Future by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams
03:16 Non-Places by Marc Augé
04:07 The Origin of Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood
06:07 Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson
07:09 The Beach Beneath the Street by McKenzie Wark
08:36 Déjà Vu and the End of History by Paolo Virno
10:04 The Age of the Poets by Alain Badiou
11:00 Minima Moralia by Theodor Adorno
13:02 Outro / Dearest Pet by Midas Dekkers