The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-pandemic World
By: Benjamin H. Bratton
3.40
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
COVID-19 exposed the pre-existing conditions of the current global crisis. Many Western states fail…
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1. 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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- nonfiction
"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
2. Towards a Philosophy of Photography
By: Vilém Flusser , Hubertus Von Amelunxen , Anthony Mathews
4.04
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Media philosopher Vilém Flusser proposed a revolutionary new way of thinking about photography. An … read more
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"For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable."-Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography
"Traditional images signify phenomena whereas technical (produced by an apparatus) images signify concepts."-Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography
"This apparently non-symbolic, objective character of technical images lead whoever looks at them to see them not as images but as windows"-Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography
"Texts do not signify the world, they signify the images they tear up. Hence, to decode texts, means to discover the images dignified by them"-Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography
3. Ice
By: Anna Kavan
3.67
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusiv… read more
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"Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing."-Anna Kavan, Ice
4. The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
By: Kathi Weeks
4.19
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labo… read more
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- politics
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- economics
"Freedom thus depends on collective action rather than individual will, and this is what makes it political. Though freedom is, by account, a relational practice, it is not a zero-sum game in which th…"-Kathi Weeks, The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
5. No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
By: Naomi Klein
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
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6. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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7. The Medium is the Massage
By: Marshall McLuhan , Quentin Fiore , Jerome Agel
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Medium is the Massageis Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presenta… read more
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8. Train Dreams
By: Denis Johnson
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more
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9. Mythologies
By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more
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10. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more
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11. Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
By: Nick Srnicek , Alex Williams
3.46
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from work Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity … read more
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12. Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
By: Anna Kornbluh
4.08
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural style Contemporary cultural style boo… read more
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- cultural
- history
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- economics
13. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- nonfiction
- economics
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
14. Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
By: Nancy Fraser
4.04
Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition
A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone w… read more
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- nonfiction
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15. Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
By: Troy Vettese
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this thrilling and capacious book, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the inertia of ca… read more
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- nonfiction
- economics
"The aim for socialism is not Soviet-style Stakhanovite toil, but rien faire comme une bête."-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
"Nothing scares neoliberals more than radical science allied with social movements, but until such a union arises, they have little to fear."-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
"Despite our knowledge of what needs to be done, carbon emissions increase and mass extinctions continue relentlessly. Capital is at the helm, blindly steering the ship of fools towards ecological dis…"-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
"Environmentalists think that their political moderation will be rewarded by the powerful, who will allow them to play a small role in shaping the future. Yet the elite and their neoliberal brain trus…"-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
16. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
By: Andreas Malm
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more
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- history
- theory
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
17. Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
By: James Bridle
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching explor… read more
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- nonfiction
- technology
"What would it mean to build artificial intelligences and other machines that were more like octopuses, more like fungi, or more like forests?"-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
"We can’t read water in the same way as we can’t read data…Working with it makes us more aware of the distance between ourselves and the matter under consideration: it reminds us that we share this wo…"-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
18. The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-pandemic World
By: Benjamin H. Bratton
3.40
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
COVID-19 exposed the pre-existing conditions of the current global crisis. Many Western states fail… read more
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- history
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- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- economics
- technology
19. The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
By: Matthias Schmelzer
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Ec… read more
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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
20. Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
By: Matthew T. Huber
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Why the struggle against climate change is a class struggle The climate crisis is not primarily … read more
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- theory
- politics
- economics
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"Why do we not focus on the activities associated with production and investment when considering the individual's carbon footprint? I argue that it is because what Marx called the "hidden abode of pr…"-Matthew T. Huber, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
21. Owning the Future: Power and Property in an Age of Crisis
By: Adrienne Buller
3.52
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
A radical manifesto for the transformation of post-pandemic politicsThe question of ownership is th… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
22. Capital Is Dead. Is This Something Worse?
By: McKenzie Wark
3.50
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
It’s not capitalism, it’s not neoliberalism—what if it’s something worse?In this radical and vision… read more
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- theory
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- economics
- technology
23. Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
By: Andreas Malm
3.99
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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- economics
"Perhaps humanity should thank Covid-19 for taking the early route through Europe."-Andreas Malm, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
"More to the point, however, is that China could become the cradle of this disease only because global tendencies were present in the concentrated form."-Andreas Malm, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
"Corona can be an effect of climate; not the other way around. More importantly, the two are interlaced aspects, on different scale of time and space, of what is now one chronic emergency."-Andreas Malm, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
"It has taken the science some time to catch up and connect the dots, but, in 2012, one pathbreaking study derived one third of all existential threats to animal species straight from the sale of good…"-Andreas Malm, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
24. Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future
By: Joel Wainwright
3.67
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worse Despite the science and t… read more
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- nonfiction
- economics
25. If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
By: Jill Lepore
3.71
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The Simulmatics Corporation, launched during the Cold War, mined data, targeted voters, manipulated… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- technology
26. Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
By: Robert Chapman
4.39
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
‘Groundbreaking … [provides] a deep history of the invention of the “normal” mind as one of the mo… read more
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- politics
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- economics
27. Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism
By: Kate Soper
3.61
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life The… read more
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28. Reconsidering Reparations (Philosophy of Race)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.53
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Reparations for slavery have become a reinvigorated topic for public debate over the last decade. M… read more
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- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- economics
29. The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology
By: John Bellamy Foster
4.46
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
Winner, 2020 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize A fascinating reinterpretation of the radic… read more
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- theory
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- nonfiction
- economics
30. Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown
By: Mathew Lawrence
3.69
Format: None pages, ebook
A radical manifesto for how to deal with environmental breakdown In the age of environmental break… read more
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31. Falling Down: The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain
By: Phil Burton-Cartledge
3.58
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Despite winning the December 2019 General Election, the Conservative parliamentary party is a morib… read more
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