7 must-read technology books like Capital Is Dead. Is This Something Worse? by McKenzie Wark

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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…

If you liked the technology plot in Capital Is Dead. Is This Something Worse? by McKenzie Wark , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Towards a Philosophy of Photography by Vilém Flusser, Hubertus Von Amelunxen, Anthony Mathews

1. 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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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"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

2. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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3. 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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4. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

By: Judith Butler

3.81

Format: None pages,

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more

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5. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley

4.00

Format: 201 pages,

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more

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6. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

By: Donna J. Haraway

3.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway o… read more

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7. 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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8. Terminal Boredom: Stories

By: Izumi Suzuki

3.59

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Seven punky and pitch-black stories offer English-language readers an overdue introduction to Izumi… read more

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"INSUFFICIENT VEGETABLE OIL,’ quoth the replicator."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"And having four kids? Giving birth to them naturally? What is she, an animal?"

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"When we first met, Reiko still had something of a wrecked beauty. Now, not even those ruins remained."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"I’m a sucker for trends. I don’t have much in the way of agency. I always want to try whatever’s popular."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

Cover of Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis

9. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

By: Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • technology
"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

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10. Girls Against God

By: Jenny Hval

3.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, gen… read more

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"No one asks me why I hate, no one uses that word, they call me grumpy, not even angry, but grumpy, six letters, something inconsequential and self-inflicted, something powerless, insignificant, somet…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

"Maybe the only way an artist can escape capitalism and patriarchy today is to use art to disappear as an individual. The artists must completely wash away their person and self-expression, along with…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

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11. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • economics
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12. 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
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13. 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

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • technology
Cover of Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han

14. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

By: Byung-Chul Han

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • economics
  • technology
"İkinci Aydınlanma salt verilerle işleyen bilginin devrimidir."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"Geleceğimiz, üretimin ötesinde, 'kullanılmazı kullanmayı' becerebilecek durumda olup olmamamıza bağlıdır."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"People who fail in the neoliberal archievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"Günümüzün üretim tarzını niteleyen birilikte çalışan 'çokluk' (Multitude) değil, yalıtılmış, kendiyle kavga eden, kendini gönüllü olarak sömüren girişimcinin yalnızlığıdır (Solitude)."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

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15. 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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  • philosophy
  • 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

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16. Hit Parade of Tears

By: Izumi Suzuki

3.43

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom. Izumi Suzuki had ideas abo… read more

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"Love isn't like a house you can just kick back and live in once its completed. No, it gets more worn and tattered day by day, unless you keep on making it up."

-Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears

Cover of The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond by Nancy Fraser

17. The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond

By: Nancy Fraser

3.94

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

Neoliberalism is fracturing, but what will emerge in its wake?Across the globe politics as usual ar… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • economics
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18. 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

Similar categories in McKenzie Wark's Capital Is Dead. Is This Something Worse? book and McKenzie Wark's Capital Is Dead. Is This Something Worse?

  • internet
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • research
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • economics
  • technology
Cover of Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job by Gavin Mueller

19. Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job

By: Gavin Mueller

3.97

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In the nineteenth century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologie… read more

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  • economics
  • technology
"Free software is an example of a Luddite technology: an innovation in the interest of the preservation of practitioners' autonomy against the imposition of control over the labor process by capitalis…"

-Gavin Mueller, Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job

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20. Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis

By: Alberto Toscano

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

How do we understand the return of fascism today? In a world shaken by ecological, economic and po… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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21. Girl Online: A User Manual

By: Joanna Walsh

3.15

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

What happens when a woman goes online? She becomes a girl. The unwritten contract of the interne… read more

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  • technology

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4.01

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4.29

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4.04

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3.56

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