5 Top queer books like Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation by Laboria Cuboniks

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Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

By: Laboria Cuboniks

3.63

Format: 20 pages, ebook

“Xenofeminism is gender-abolitionist… Let a hundred sexes bloom! …[And, let’s] construct a society …

"If nature is unjust, change nature!"

-Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

"If nature is unjust, change nature!"

-Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

"These puritanical politics of shame—which fetishize oppression as if it were a blessing, and cloud the waters in moralistic frenzies—leave us cold. We want neither clean hands nor beautiful souls, neither virtue nor terror. We want superior forms of corruption."

-Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

"These puritanical politics of shame—which fetishize oppression as if it were a blessing, and cloud the waters in moralistic frenzies—leave us cold. We want neither clean hands nor beautiful souls, neither virtue nor terror. We want superior forms of corruption."

-Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

If you liked the queer plot in Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation by Laboria Cuboniks , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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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
  • 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

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2. The Cultural Politics of Emotion

By: Sara Ahmed

4.34

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In The Cultural Politics of the Emotions, Sara Ahmed develops a new methodology for reading "the em… read more

Similar categories in Sara Ahmed's The Cultural Politics of Emotion book and Laboria Cuboniks's Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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3. 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

Similar categories in Sadie Plant's Zeros and Ones book and Laboria Cuboniks's Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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4. Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones

By: Torrey Peters

4.12

Format: None pages,

In the future, everyone will be trans. So says Lexi. She's a charismatic trans woman furious with t… read more

Similar categories in Torrey Peters's Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones book and Laboria Cuboniks's Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

  • queer
  • lgbt
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5. 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
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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6. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

By: Michel Foucault , Richard Howard , José Teixeira Coelho Netto

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Michel Foucault examines the ar… read more

Similar categories in Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason book and Laboria Cuboniks's Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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7. 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
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays

8. Postscript on the Societies of Control

By: Gilles Deleuze

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

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9. Anarchism and Other Essays

By: Emma Goldman

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the eighteen-nineties and for years thereafter, America reverberated with the name of the "notor… read more

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10. SCUM Manifesto

By: Valerie Solanas , Avital Ronell

2.00

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

SCUM Manifestowas considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when … read more

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11. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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12. The Conquest of Bread

By: Pyotr Kropotkin

4.67

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

The fourth in AK Press' Working Classics series, The Conquest of Breadis Peter Kropotkin's most ext… read more

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13. Manifesto Cyborg

By: Donna J. Haraway

3.26

Format: 32 pages,

Dopo aver tematizzato l'esistenza del cyborg, "creatura della realta sociale econtemporaneamente de… read more

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14. The Rings of Saturn

By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more

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15. Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era

By: Paul B. Preciado , Bruce Benderson

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

What constitutes a "real" man or woman in the twenty-first century? Since birth control pills, erec… read more

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16. Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto

By: Legacy Russell

3.81

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Simone de Beauvoir said “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” The glitch announces: One i… read more

Similar categories in Legacy Russell's Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto book and Laboria Cuboniks's Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
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17. Females

By: Andrea Long Chu

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

Everyone is female "When I say that everyone is female, I mean very simply that everyone wants to b… read more

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  • lgbt
  • theory
  • feminism
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"Femaleness is a universal sex defined by self-negation, against which all politics, even feminist politics, rebels. Put more simply: Everyone is female, and everyone hates it."

-Andrea Long Chu, Females

"Gender is not just the misogynistic expectations a female internalizes but also the process of internalizing itself, the self's gentle suicide in the name of someone else's desires, someone else's na…"

-Andrea Long Chu, Females

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18. Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

By: Cinzia Arruzza

4.03

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, inadequate healthcare, border policing, climate change—these a… read more

Similar categories in Cinzia Arruzza's Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto book and Laboria Cuboniks's Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"confront head on, the real source of crisis and misery, which is capitalism."

-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

"who will guide the process of societal transformation, in whose interest, and to what end?"

-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

"What we are living through is a crisis of society as a whole—and its root cause is capitalism."

-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

"Liberal feminism’s ethos converges not only with corporate mores but also with supposedly “transgressive"

-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

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19. Exiting the Vampire Castle

By: Mark Fisher

4.05

Format: 10 pages, ebook

This summer, I seriously considered withdrawing from any involvement in politics. Exhausted through… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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20. Xenofeminism (Theory Redux)

By: Helen Hester

3.86

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

In an era of accelerating technology and increasing complexity, how should we reimagine the emancip… read more

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  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
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21. Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

By: Laboria Cuboniks

3.63

Format: 20 pages, ebook

“Xenofeminism is gender-abolitionist… Let a hundred sexes bloom! …[And, let’s] construct a society … read more

Similar categories in Laboria Cuboniks's Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation book and Laboria Cuboniks's Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

  • lgbt
  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
  • queer
"If nature is unjust, change nature!"

-Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

"These puritanical politics of shame—which fetishize oppression as if it were a blessing, and cloud the waters in moralistic frenzies—leave us cold. We want neither clean hands nor beautiful souls, ne…"

-Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

"Anyone who’s been deemed ‘unnatural’ in the face of reigning biological norms, anyone who’s experienced injustices wrought in the name of natural order, will realize that the glorification of ‘nature…"

-Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

9 must-read politics books like Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation by Laboria Cuboniks

Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Cultural Politics of Emotion

Sara Ahmed

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Zeros and Ones

Sadie Plant

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

Mark Fisher

3.72

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9 Best politics books like Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell

Transform Your Habits

Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

Katherine Angel

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto

Legacy Russell

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

Sophie Lewis

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Who's Afraid of Gender?

Judith Butler

4.02

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