7 must-read theory books like Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism by Elizabeth A. Povinelli

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Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism

By: Elizabeth A. Povinelli

3.99

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

In Geontologies Elizabeth A. Povinelli continues her project of mapping the current conditions of l…

"contemporary states make live, let die, and kill"

-Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism

If you liked the theory plot in Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism by Elizabeth A. Povinelli , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. When Species Meet

By: Donna J. Haraway

3.87

Format: 423 pages, Paperback

In 2006, about 69 million U.S. households had pets, giving homes to around 73.9 million dogs, 90.5 … read more

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  • ecology
  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • anthropology
"Human genomes can be found in only about 10 percent of all the cells that occupy the mundane space I call my body; the other 90 percent of the cells are filled with the genomes of bacteria, fungi, pr…"

-Donna J. Haraway, When Species Meet

"Freud described three great historical wounds to the primary narcissism of the self-centered human subject, who tries to hold panic at bay by the fantasy of human exceptionalism. First is the Coperni…"

-Donna J. Haraway, When Species Meet

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2. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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3. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

By: Christina Sharpe

3.39

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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4. Poetics of Relation

By: Édouard Glissant , Betsy Wing

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Edouard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writer… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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5. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • anthropology
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6. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

7. Between the Acts

By: Virginia Woolf

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more

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8. Consider the Oyster

By: M.F.K. Fisher

3.50

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

M.F.K. Fisher, whom John Updike has called our "poet of the appetites," here pays tribute to that m… read more

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  • nonfiction

9. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more

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10. Why Look at Animals?

By: John Berger

3.82

Format: None pages,

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11. Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , None

3.71

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

(Great Books in Philosophy) Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the … read more

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12. Nox

By: Anne Carson

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Noxis an epitaph in the form of a book, a facsimile of a handmade book Anne Carson wrote and create… read more

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13. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning

By: None

3.50

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Meeting the Universe Halfwayis an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields… read more

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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon , None

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more

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18. Go, Went, Gone

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

4.13

Format: None pages,

One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue. Richard has spent h… read more

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19. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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20. As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock

By: Dina Gilio-Whitaker

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • indigenous
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21. Un apartamento en Urano

By: Paul B. Preciado

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Urano, el gigante helado, es el planeta más frío del sistema solar, y también un dios de la mitolog… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Travel translates the process of change, as if external movement were trying to articulate internal nomadism."

-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano

"Não tenho alma e não tenho corpo. Sou o cosmos. Tenho um apartamento em Urano, o que certamente me coloca longe da maioria dos terráqueos, mas não tão longe que eles não possam viajar para cá. Nem qu…"

-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano

"Al mismo tiempo, el colegio es la más brutal y fantoche de las escuelas de heterosexualidad. Aunque aparentemente asexual, el colegio potencia y fomenta el deseo heterosexual y la teatralización corp…"

-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano

"Não pensei em férias. Pensei em esvaziar o arquivo, descarregar a memória. Em apagar. E reiniciar. Mas nada se apaga nem se reinicia. Nem mesmo as máquinas podem ser reiniciadas. Quem diz apagar ment…"

-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano

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22. Pollution Is Colonialism

By: Max Liboiron

4.50

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

In Pollution is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research… read more

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  • ecology
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • environment
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23. Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism

By: Elizabeth A. Povinelli

3.99

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

In Geontologies Elizabeth A. Povinelli continues her project of mapping the current conditions of l… read more

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  • ecology
  • ethnography
  • theory
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • philosophy
  • grad school
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • anthropology
"contemporary states make live, let die, and kill"

-Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism

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24. The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River (Critical Studies in Native History, 20)

By: Susan M. Hill

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

If one seeks to understand Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) history, one must consider the history of Ha… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • indigenous
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25. Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania

By: Maile Arvin

4.40

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans ass… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • indigenous
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26. Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory (Critical Studies in Native History, 21)

By: Brittany Luby

4.36

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

" The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory" explores Canada’s hydroelectric boom … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • indigenous
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27. Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)

By: Mel Y. Chen

4.06

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how … read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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28. A Terra Dá, a Terra Quer

By: Antônio Bispo dos Santos

4.65

Format: 91 pages, Kindle Edition

Contracolonização é o conceito-chave desta obra de Antônio Bispo, que contrapõe de forma desconcert… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (Univocal)

By: Gilbert Simondon

4.27

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Few thinkers have been as influential upon current discussions and theoretical practices in the age… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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30. Dear Science and Other Stories (Errantries)

By: Katherine McKittrick

4.59

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of bl… read more

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31. The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Dissident Acts)

By: Macarena Gómez-Barris

3.92

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative prac… read more

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  • ecology
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • grad school
  • nonfiction
  • environment

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Transform Your Habits

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Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

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Christina Sharpe

3.39

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Poetics of Relation

Édouard Glissant , Betsy Wing

3.66

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Debt: The First 5,000 Years

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Michel-Rolph Trouillot

4.36

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Angela Y. Davis

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