Canceling Comedians While the World Burns
By: Ben Burgis
3.87
Format: None pages, None
Between the decline of the labor movement, the aftershocks of the falls of so-called "actually exis…
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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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"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. The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold us Well-Being
By: William Davies , Chiara Melloni
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When Jeremy Bentham proposed that government should run "for the greatest benefit of the greatest n… read more
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3. Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
By: Angela Nagle
4.08
Format: 88 pages, ebook
Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle … read more
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4. The Castle
By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published unt… read more
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5. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
By: Noam Chomsky , Edward S. Herman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book . In this pathb… read more
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6. 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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7. Libra
By: Don DeLillo
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more
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8. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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9. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the bounda… read more
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10. Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
By: Rafia Zakaria
4.32
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as “experts” on feminism. They have presided… read more
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"Trickle-down feminism, everyone assumed, would miraculously fast forward the realization of a gender-equal, free market world created in the self image of America."-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"White and western women are seen as participants in complex modern societies. Their problems cannot be solved with a single, neat gift. Women of color are imagined as existing in a much simpler world…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"But American journalists, female journalists in particular, created a narrative for the war on terror that reaffirmed it as one fought by a feminist America, against anti-feminist, primitive, patriar…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"Capitalist forces have looked to depoliticize as many spheres as possible. To create a feminist politics of solidarity, women have to recognize the forces that push them apart and push them into mean…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
11. Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
By: Matt Taibbi
4.11
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Part tirade, part confessional from the celebrated Rolling Stone journalist, Hate Inc. reveals that… read more
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"More often, when explosive #Russiagate headlines go sideways, the original outlets simply ignore the new development, leaving the “retraction"-Matt Taibbi, Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
"In my experience conservatives hate reporters mainly because they see us as phonies. We reject the idea that we belong to a class, or that we have our own tribal beliefs. Sometimes the hypocrisy is s…"-Matt Taibbi, Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
12. Against the Web
By: Michael Brooks
4.10
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Michael Brooks takes on the new "Intellectual Dark Web." As the host of The Michael Brooks Show and… read more
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13. The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
By: Maria Konnikova
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestseller! A New York Times Notable Book “The tale of how Konnikova followed … read more
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14. A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)
By: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told t… read more
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"It's not clear whether, at this point, the Babiarzes fully understood that the libertarians were operating under vampire rules—the invitation to enter, once offered, could not be rescinded."-Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)
"What's the endgame of capitalism, if not a big fat white man sitting on top of a pile of bloody bones [after cannibalizing the other capitalists] with no one around him, crying because no one's aroun…"-Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)
"What's the endgame of capitalism, if not a big fat white man sitting on top of a pile of bloody bones [after cannibalizing everyone else] with no one around him, crying because no one's around to mak…"-Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)
"Government isn't ruining capitalism. Capitalism is ruining government. I think that's kind of obvious. If you take capitalism out of government you get simple public representation. If you take gover…"-Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)
15. Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
By: Linda Nochlin
4.33
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
"Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" is a 1971 essay by American art historian Linda Nochl… read more
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16. Binge: 60 stories to make your brain feel different
By: Douglas Coupland
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The first new work of fiction since 2013 from one of Canada's most successful, idiosyncratic and wo… read more
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17. Canceling Comedians While the World Burns
By: Ben Burgis
3.87
Format: None pages, None
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18. Give Them an Argument
By: Burgis Ben
3.75
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Many serious leftists have learned to distrust talk of logic and logical fallacies, associated with… read more
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"Good reasoning isn't primarily about being loud and confident and good on your feet. Those are skills worth developing—as humans, we're built to respond to all of that—but those aren't the things t…"-Burgis Ben, Give Them an Argument
19. It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
By: Dale Beran
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An insider's history of the website at the end of the world, which burst into politics and memed Do… read more
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"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce, Karl Marx wrote, correcting Hegel. But what's next? There's no word for a farce of a farce."-Dale Beran, It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
"For this reason, entering into the cool, safe bubble of Otakon, where adolescents attempted to commune with the comforting kids' fantasy on the other side of the screen felt slightly unsettling to me…"-Dale Beran, It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
"Were the future leaders of the United States who had won coveted tickets to the highest echelons of the neoliberal meritocracy — the ones who were supposed to take over the newspapers, high political…"-Dale Beran, It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
"This was, of course, the function of art, to reveal the nuances of imagination hidden under shame. But it was also art sans art, as 4chan negated everything, even itself. Art born from some insistent…"-Dale Beran, It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
20. Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
By: Catherine Liu
3.81
Format: 90 pages, ebook
Professional Managerial Class (PMC) elite workers labor in a world of performative identity and vir… read more
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"In the United States, generations of allegedly neutral experts have hollowed out public goods, degraded the public sphere, facilitated the monetization of everything from health to aptitude, and inde…"-Catherine Liu, Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
"The novel predicted the triumphs of the post-1968 PMC: the moral rectitude of the virtuous lawyer and his high-spirited daughter renders the solution to racism attractive to the establishment—work on…"-Catherine Liu, Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
21. Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley
By: Rob Larson
3.89
Format: 249 pages, ebook
If the stories they tell about themselves are to be believed, all of the tech giants—Apple, Google,… read more
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