Baedan 1: Journal of Queer Nihilism
By: Baedan
4.16
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
From the Journal: “If we can determine anything from our project of queer negativity, it is that…
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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. Toward the Creative Nothing and Other Writings
By: Renzo Novatore , Enzo Martucci , Stephen Marletta
3.73
Format: 45 pages, Saddle stitch
It is difficult to find anarchist works in English that are at the same time "individualist" and ex… read more
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"We have killed “duty"-Renzo Novatore, Toward the Creative Nothing and Other Writings
"Every society seeks to confine me to the august limits of the permitted and the prohibited. But I do not acknowledge these limits, for nothing is forbidden and all is permitted to those who have the …"-Renzo Novatore, Toward the Creative Nothing and Other Writings
"LOVE: Deception of the flesh and damage to the spirit. Disease of the soul, atrophy of the brain, weakening of the heart, corruption of the senses, poetic lies from which one gets ferociously inebria…"-Renzo Novatore, Toward the Creative Nothing and Other Writings
"History, materialism, monism, positivism, and all the "isms" of this world are old and rusty tools which I don't need or mind anymore. My principle is life, my end is death. I wish to live my life in…"-Renzo Novatore, Toward the Creative Nothing and Other Writings
3. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta
4.50
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more
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- politics
- transgender
- queer
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
4. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to… read more
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- philosophy
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- nonfiction
5. Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
By: Gilles Deleuze , Robert Hurley
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Spinoza's theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology, … read more
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6. Blue of Noon
By: Harry Mathews , Georges Bataille , Ken Hollings
3.86
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, this twentieth-century erotic classic take… read more
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- philosophy
7. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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8. 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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"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
9. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
By: Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Gunzelin Schmid Nörr , Edmund Jephcott
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dialectic of Enlightenmentis undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School o… read more
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10. Story of the Eye
By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more
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"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
11. Aesthetics and Politics
By: Fredric Jameson , Bertolt Brecht , György Lukács , Theodor W. Adorno , Walter Benjamin , Ernst Bloch
3.62
Format: 120 pages,
No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare … read more
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- theory
- philosophy
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- nonfiction
12. Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life
By: Theodor W. Adorno , None
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections. A reflection… read more
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13. Desert
By: Anonymous
4.23
Format: 166 pages,
A text that plays significantly on the invisible committee's concept of desert and also desertion, … read more
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14. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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15. Mutual Aid
By: Pyotr Kropotkin
3.78
Format: 584 pages, Paperback
In 'Mutual Aid', Peter Kropotkin attacks the use of Darwinism as a social theory, arguing that coop… read more
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16. Manifestoes of Surrealism
By: André Breton , None , Richard Seaver , None
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Manifestoes of Surrealismis a book by Andre Breton, describing the aims, meaning, and political pos… read more
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17. Theory of Bloom
By: Tiqqun
4.24
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
The Theory of Bloom is the theory of the isolated subject of the modern era. The Bloom is forced to… read more
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18. 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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19. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
20. Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.60
Format: None pages,
Ursula K. LeGuin follows her classic trilogy from Earthsea with a magical tale that won the 1991 Ne… read more
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21. Amulet
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
Amulet is a monologue, like Bolano's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is … read more
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22. 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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23. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"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
24. Blessed is the Flame: An Introduction to Concentration Camp Resistance and Anarcho-Nihilism
By: Serafinski
4.26
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
This book, with a name from a poem by a partisan fighter, takes two things that would not necessari… read more
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"It speaks to the very nature of our domestication that we only choose resistance so long as it feels like something we can win."-Serafinski, Blessed is the Flame: An Introduction to Concentration Camp Resistance and Anarcho-Nihilism
"From the shattered tools and bones of our predecessors, we craft our own weapons. Nothing is guaranteed to work, yet we attack regardless. We do so naked, having shed the rags of morality, ideology, …"-Serafinski, Blessed is the Flame: An Introduction to Concentration Camp Resistance and Anarcho-Nihilism
25. Stirner's Critics
By: Max Stirner
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Brand new translation of Stirner's responses to his critics, translated with care by Wolfi Landstre… read more
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26. The Cybernetic Hypothesis
By: Tiqqun
4.03
Format: 100 pages, Unknown Binding
An early text from Tiqqun that views cybernetics as a fable of late capitalism, and offers tools fo… read more
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"He [Karl Deutsch] recommended abandoning the old concept that power was sovereign, which had too long been the essence of politics. To govern would become a rational coordination of the flows of info…"-Tiqqun, The Cybernetic Hypothesis
"There is the space of encounters which allow one to trace out an absolute limit to the analogy between the social world and the physical world. This is basically because two particles never encounter…"-Tiqqun, The Cybernetic Hypothesis
27. The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition
By: William C. Anderson
4.50
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
The Nation on No Map examines state power, abolition, and ideological tensions within the struggle … read more
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28. Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future
By: Joel Wainwright
3.67
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worse Despite the science and t… read more
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29. Baedan 1: Journal of Queer Nihilism
By: Baedan
4.16
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
From the Journal: “If we can determine anything from our project of queer negativity, it is that… read more
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- gender
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- anarchism
- gender and sexuality
- queer
30. Gender Nihilism: An Anti-Manifesto
By: Alyson Escalante
3.44
Format: 12 pages, ebook
“We are radicals who have had enough with attempts to salvage gender. We do not believe we can make… read more
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- theory
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31. Armed Joy
By: Alfredo M. Bonanno
3.94
Format: 48 pages, Essay
Hurry comrade, shoot the policeman, the judge, the boss. Now, before a new police prevent you. H… read more
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"Non esiste il lavoro liberato."-Alfredo M. Bonanno, Armed Joy
"Che follia l’amore per il lavoro! Che grande abilità scenica quella del capitale che ha saputo fare amare lo sfruttamento agli sfruttati, la corda agli impiccati e la catena agli schiavi."-Alfredo M. Bonanno, Armed Joy
"Whatever kind of revolutionary would be one who claimed to destroy the model, the wrapping, the very foundations of the revolution? By attacking concepts such as quantification, class, project, model…"-Alfredo M. Bonanno, Armed Joy
