24 must-read nonfiction books like Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism by Slavoj Žižek

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism by Slavoj Žižek , here is a list of 24 books like this:

Similar categories in Donald Nicholson-Smith's The Society of the Spectacle book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• history
• 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

Similar categories in Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• history
• theory
• politics
• nonfiction
• economics
• sociology

"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Similar categories in Peter Singer's Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• politics
• psychology
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• essays
• sociology
• audiobook

"If our best-educated citizens have no idea how to answer these basic questions, we will struggle to build a democracy that can solve the problems we face, whether they are what to do about climate ch…"

-Peter Singer, Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter

"We spend most of our lives with unfulfilled desires, and the occasional satisfactions that are all most of us can achieve are insufficient to outweigh these prolonged negative states. If we think tha…"

-Peter Singer, Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter

Similar categories in Howard Zinn's The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• history
• theory
• politics
• nonfiction
• economics

"[W]ho would have thought that by the mid-twentieth century the darker nations would gather in Cuba, once the playground of the plutocracy, to celebrate their will to struggle and their will to win? W…"

-Howard Zinn, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

"Among the darker nations, Paris is famous for two betrayals. The first came in 1801, when Napoleon Bonaparte sent General Victor Leclerc to crush the Haitian Revolution, itself inspired by the French…"

-Howard Zinn, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

Similar categories in William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

"Exterminate all rational thought"

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

Similar categories in Guy Debord's Comments on the Society of the Spectacle book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• theory
• politics
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• sociology

Similar categories in David Graeber's The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• history
• politics
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• economics
• sociology

Similar categories in David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• politics
• economics
• history
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• history
• theory
• politics
• psychology
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• sociology

Similar categories in Michael Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• history
• theory
• politics
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• economics
• sociology
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"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Similar categories in Slavoj Žižek's On Practice and Contradiction book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• history
• theory
• politics
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• essays

Similar categories in Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

Similar categories in David Byrne's Bicycle Diaries book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

Similar categories in Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• philosophy
• nonfiction
• psychology
• essays

"Deprivation quickly drives us into a process of appreciation."

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

"It is, unfortunately, easier to lose a lover than complete In Search of Lost Time. "

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

"One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love."

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

"For Proust, an injection of jealousy is the only thing capable of rescuing a relationship ruined by habit."

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

Similar categories in Jeroen Brouwers's Bezonken rood book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

Similar categories in Gilles Deleuze's Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

Similar categories in David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

Similar categories in Ellen Meiksins Wood's The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

Similar categories in Vladimir Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• history
• theory
• politics
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• economics
• sociology

"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

Similar categories in Friedrich Engels's Socialism: Utopian and Scientific book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• history
• theory
• politics
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• economics
• sociology

"State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by th…"

-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

"Las fuerzas activas de la sociedad obran, mientras no las conocemos y contamos con ellas, exactamente lo mismo que las fuerzas de la naturaleza: de un modo ciego, violento, destructor. Pero, una vez …"

-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

Similar categories in David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs: A Theory book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• politics
• psychology
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• economics
• sociology
• audiobook

"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

Similar categories in Vincent Bevins's If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• history
• theory
• politics
• nonfiction
• sociology
• audiobook

"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Similar categories in David Graeber's The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• history
• politics
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• economics
• sociology
• audiobook

"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

Similar categories in Yanis Varoufakis's Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• history
• politics
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• economics
• sociology
• audiobook

"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

Similar categories in James Davies's Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• politics
• psychology
• nonfiction
• economics
• sociology
• audiobook

"I have asked them to pay attention to what they have just said. In particular to their use of the phrase “mental illness"

-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

"If our basic needs were neglected: our need for safety, economic security, loving connection, autonomy, self-realization and meaningful work, our need to feel equal and respected, then poor emotional…"

-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

"What we need is a profound rethinking of the nature of suffering itself, and what it is trying to highlight and ask us to change. We need to repoliticise emotional discontent in the minds of teachers…"

-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

"Tim Kasser: ‘The heyday of humanistic psychology was in the 1960s and 1970s, when Keynes dominated. But since the rise of neo-liberalism from the 1980s, we’ve seen an influx of cognitive behavioural …"

-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

Similar categories in Mark Fisher's Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• history
• theory
• politics
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• essays
• economics
• sociology
• audiobook

Similar categories in Yanis Varoufakis's Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• history
• politics
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• economics
• sociology
• audiobook

"The Matrix is a reflection of our times, or at least our anxieties. It reveals our fear of a mechanization so complete, of a commodification of our bodies and enslavement of our minds so successful, …"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

"...a cynical person is someone who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. Our societies tend to make us all cynics. And no one is more cynical than the economist who sees exchange va…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

"Bürokrasi, Ordu ve Ruhban Sınıfı Borç, para, inanç ve devlet el ele yürür. Borç olmadan tarımsal fazlalığı yönetmenin kolay yolu yoktur. Borcun ortaya çıkışıyla paranın yıldızı parlamaya başladı. Anc…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

"Like any ecosystem, a modern economy cannot survive without recycling. Just as animals and plants are continually recycling the oxygen and carbon dioxide that the other provides, so too must workers …"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

Similar categories in David Graeber's Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• history
• politics
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• essays
• sociology
• audiobook

"God and Man were inseparable companions. One day God said to Man: why don’t you go walk around on earth for a while so we can find some new topics for conversation? —beginning of a Malagasy folktale"

-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

"The toothless or peg-legged buccaneer hoisting a flag of defiance against the world, drinking and feasting to a stupor on stolen loot, fleeing at the first sign of serious opposition, leaving only ta…"

-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

"We would seem to be in the presence of a genuine historical anomaly: a political entity that presented itself to the outside world as a kingdom, organized around the charismatic figure of a brilliant…"

-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

Similar categories in Mark Fisher's Exiting the Vampire Castle book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• theory
• politics
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• essays

Similar categories in Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• history
• theory
• politics
• psychology
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• essays
• economics
• sociology
• audiobook

Similar categories in Aaron Good's American Exception: Empire and the Deep State book and Slavoj Žižek's Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

• history
• theory
• politics
• nonfiction
• economics
• audiobook