14 best-selling theory books like Ccru: Writings 1997-2003 by CCRU

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Ccru: Writings 1997-2003

By: CCRU

4.08

Format: 666 pages, Kindle Edition

This first comprehensive collection of utterances from the Ccru-entity to appear in book form track…

"Neo-China arrives from the future."

-CCRU, Ccru: Writings 1997-2003

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1. Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

By: Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser

4.00

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step t… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • essays
"The balance of terror is the terror of balance."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"Forgetting extermination is part of extermination."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"But when everything is repressed, nothing is anymore."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"Nada llegó ni llegará ahora al término de su historia."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

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2. Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927–1939

By: Georges Bataille , Carl R. Lovitt

4.28

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Since the publication of Visions of Excess in 1985, there has been an explosion of interest in the … read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • essays
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3. The Society of the Spectacle

By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more

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  • theory
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  • politics
  • essays
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

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4. Zeros and Ones

By: Sadie Plant

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A highly contentious, very readable and totally up-to-the-minute investigation of women's natural r… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • technology
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5. The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism

By: Nick Land

3.43

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
Cover of The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin, Rodney Livingstone, Michael W. Jennings, Brigid Doherty, None, Howard Eiland, Thomas Y. Levin

6. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin

4.02

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • essays
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7. Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

By: Reza Negarestani

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

At once a horror fiction, a work of speculative theology, an atlas of demonology, a political samiz… read more

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  • literature
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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8. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

By: Mark Fisher

3.72

Format: None pages, Paperback

This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • essays
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9. A Universal History of Iniquity

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction

10. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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11. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari , Brian Massumi

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key… read more

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12. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an ess… read more

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13. The Dark Enlightenment

By: Nick Land

4.14

Format: 560 pages,

http://www.thedarkenlightenment.com/t... read more

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14. Critique of Pure Reason

By: Immanuel Kant , Allen W. Wood , Paul Guyer

3.96

Format: 785 pages, Paperback

'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old … read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
"The great mass of people are worthy of our respect."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

15. The Weird and the Eerie

By: Mark Fisher

3.69

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the mo… read more

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16. Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987-2007

By: Ray Brassier , Robin Mackay , Nick Land

4.02

Format: 982 pages, Paperback

Level 1, or world-space, is an anthropomorphically scaled, predominantly vision-configured, massive… read more

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17. Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures

By: Mark Fisher

4.29

Format: 211 pages, None

Edited with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this idiosyncratic collection of lecture notes and t… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • essays
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18. Ccru: Writings 1997-2003

By: CCRU

4.08

Format: 666 pages, Kindle Edition

This first comprehensive collection of utterances from the Ccru-entity to appear in book form track… read more

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  • literature
  • theory
  • politics
  • esoterica
  • cyberpunk
  • philosophy
  • essays
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • technology
"Neo-China arrives from the future."

-CCRU, Ccru: Writings 1997-2003

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19. Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction

By: Mark Fisher

4.10

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Donna Haraway's celebrated observation that "our machines are disturbingly lively, while we ourselv… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • cyberpunk
  • philosophy
  • technology
"El poder ha completado el espectáculo al hacerlo interactivo; pero, al hacer esto, ha terminado con el espectáculo como tal, ha inaugurado un sistema nuevo, un sistema completamente inclusivo, que ob…"

-Mark Fisher, Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction

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20. Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History

By: Thomas Moynihan

4.28

Format: 332 pages, Paperback

The historical continuity of spinal catastrophism, traced across multiform encounters between philo… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
"What is the therapeutic path? Is there one? How can we remedy a wound the size of existence? Of course, total recall— ecphoric excavation to the point of obsidian and diamantine repose—is the only th…"

-Thomas Moynihan, Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History

"Coitus and sleep—both relieving the discontinuity of spinal-priapic erection through collapse into horizontal submersion—represent attempts at ‘archaic’ regressions. During both, ‘the whole body assu…"

-Thomas Moynihan, Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History

"Like Blumenberg, Bataille relates uprightness to the origins of mythology, and, like Freud and Ferenczi, he formats the ‘progressive election [from] quadruped to Homo erectus’ as a deviation from cop…"

-Thomas Moynihan, Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History

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21. Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape

By: Acid Horizon

3.76

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

Anti-Oculus is a psychedelic trip through the eyes of power, exploring avenues of escaping systems … read more

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10 Top politics books like Ccru: Writings 1997-2003 by CCRU

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Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser

4.00

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The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

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Sadie Plant

3.61

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Nick Land

3.43

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Julio Cortázar , Gregory Rabassa

4.20

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Julio Cortázar

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3.87

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4.39

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