8 must-read politics books like K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher by Mark Fisher

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K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

By: Mark Fisher

4.30

Format: 821 pages, Kindle Edition

A comprehensive collection of the writings of Mark Fisher (1968-2017), whose work defined critical …

"Assimilation is sometimes the most effective kind of assassination."

-Mark Fisher, K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

If you liked the politics plot in K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher by Mark Fisher , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson, Stanley Fish, Stefano Velotti

1. Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

By: Fredric Jameson , Stanley Fish , Stefano Velotti

4.00

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”pos… read more

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  • art
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • sociology
"Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and…"

-Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

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2. Vertigo

By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

4.00

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

Vertigo, W. G. Sebald's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amaz… read more

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"Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!"

-Michael Hulse, Vertigo

"How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all."

-Michael Hulse, Vertigo

"There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain."

-Michael Hulse, Vertigo

"É um vazio todo peculiar que surge quando, numa cidade estranha, a pessoa disca números de telefone em vão. Quando ninguém atende, é uma decepção de alcance transcendente, como se esses números aleat…"

-Michael Hulse, Vertigo

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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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  • art
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
"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

Cover of Codex Seraphinianus. Ein Orbis Pictus des Universums der Phantasie. by Luigi Serafini

4. Codex Seraphinianus. Ein Orbis Pictus des Universums der Phantasie.

By: Luigi Serafini

4.50

Format: 365 pages, Hardcover

Questo codice miniato fantastico e misterioso, "l'enciclopedia di un visionario" (nella definizione… read more

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  • art
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5. Rip it Up and Start Again

By: Simon Reynolds

4.08

Format: 752 pages, Hardcover

Punk's raw power rejuvenated rock, but by the summer of 1977 the movement had become a parody of it… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber

6. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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7. Mao II

By: Don DeLillo

4.31

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

"One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The N… read more

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8. The Sublime Object of Ideology

By: Slavoj Žižek , Ernesto Laclau

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In this provocative and original work, Slavoj Zizek takes a look at the question of human agency in… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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9. Millennium People

By: J.G. Ballard

4.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

Violent rebellion comes to London's middle classes in this "fascinating" (San Francisco Chronicle) … read more

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10. By Night in Chile

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more

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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

11. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

By: Naomi Klein

4.52

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… 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. Against Interpretation and Other Essays

By: Susan Sontag

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Paperback

First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became … read more

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14. Why Marx Was Right

By: Terry Eagleton

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism i… read more

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15. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

By: Thomas Ligotti , Ray Brassier

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"The Conspiracy against the Human Race sets out what is perhaps the most sustained challenge yet to… read more

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16. A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto

By: China Miéville

3.95

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

China Miéville's riveting engagement with the Communist Manifesto offers a lyrical introduction and… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
"Like the authors of the Manifesto, I don’t believe that the generalised mass misery of the world, all the unbearable checklists of deprivation and depravity, is irrelevant, nor unrelated to the econo…"

-China Miéville, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto

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17. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts

By: Paul B. Preciado

4.26

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation by Sophie   Lewis

18. Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

By: Sophie Lewis

3.70

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

What if everyone was family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
Cover of K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher by Mark Fisher

19. K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

By: Mark Fisher

4.30

Format: 821 pages, Kindle Edition

A comprehensive collection of the writings of Mark Fisher (1968-2017), whose work defined critical … read more

Similar categories in Mark Fisher's K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher book and Mark Fisher's K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

  • music
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  • film
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • essays
  • sociology
"Assimilation is sometimes the most effective kind of assassination."

-Mark Fisher, K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

Cover of Revolution: An Intellectual History by Enzo Traverso

20. Revolution: An Intellectual History

By: Enzo Traverso

4.31

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century’s age of revolutions. This bo… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Six out of eight members of the first politburo of the Bolshevik Party created in November 1917 – Lev Kamenev, Nikolay Krestinsky, Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Andrei Bubnov, and Grigori Sokolniko…"

-Enzo Traverso, Revolution: An Intellectual History

"The tragedy of revolutions lies in the fatal metamorphosis that drives them from liberation to the struggle for survival, and finally to the edification of a new oppressive rule; from emancipating vi…"

-Enzo Traverso, Revolution: An Intellectual History

"In the words of Jaurès, ‘there was in the history of the red flag an ambiguous period in which its meaning oscillated between the past and the future.’ It seems that it takes its current significance…"

-Enzo Traverso, Revolution: An Intellectual History

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21. (xeno)feministická čítanka

By: Vít Bohal

3.36

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

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9 Top philosophy books like K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher by Mark Fisher

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Fredric Jameson , Stanley Fish , Stefano Velotti

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4.02

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David Graeber

3.61

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3.50

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Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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3.88

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Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell

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