16 must-read theory books like Gender Nihilism: An Anti-Manifesto by Alyson Escalante

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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…

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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
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"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. 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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  • theory
"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

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3. Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)

By: David Graeber

4.21

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy—everywhere, that is, except the ac… read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"...státní aparát [...] skupina lidí, kteří si jako jediní osobují právo - alespoň tehdy, když jsou ve své oficiální roli - používat násilí."

-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)

"The theory of exodus proposes that the most effective way of opposing capitalism and the liberal state is not through direct confrontation but by means of what Paolo Virno has called “engaged withdra…"

-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)

"A revolution on a world scale will take a very long time. But it is also possible to recognize that it is already starting to happen. The easiest way to get our minds around it is to stop thinking ab…"

-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)

"... most Amazonians don't want to give others the power to threaten them with physical injury if they don't do as they are told. Maybe we should better be asking what it says about ourselves that we …"

-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)

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4. Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.64

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, reb… read more

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"What does the border look like?"

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

"I hope to find Area X in Area X."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

"The time for expeditions was over."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

"Was this first contact, or last contact?"

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

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5. 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
  • 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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6. The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

By: Margaret Killjoy

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

Danielle Cain is a queer punk rock traveller, jaded from a decade on the road. Searching for clues … read more

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  • queer
"Always afraid, never a coward"

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

"On a whim, I went with him. I could always stab him if he tried anything, after all."

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

"I believe in a messy, imperfect world where we just, collectively or individually, figure things out."

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

"I've got a long history of scraping together little moments of peace in the midst of hardship, and cooking is a great way to do that."

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

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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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  • theory
  • nonfiction
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8. Ajin: Demi-Human, Vol. 1 (Ajin: Demi-Human, #1)

By: Tsuina Miura , Gamon Sakurai , 西本英雄

2.74

Format: None pages, Paperback

High school student Kei Nagai is struck dead in a grisly traffic accident, but immediately revives … read more

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9. Wages Against Housework

By: Silvia Federici

2.00

Format: 375 pages,

They say it is love. We say it is unwaged work. They call it frigidity. We call it absenteeism. Eve… read more

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  • theory
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • essays

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. 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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13. Woman Hating

By: Andrea Dworkin

5.00

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

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14. Pornography: Men Possessing Women

By: Andrea Dworkin

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

This volume presents a study of the damaging effect of pornography and its ramifications on society. read more

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15. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

16. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

By: Silvia Federici

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more

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17. Are Prisons Obsolete?

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.15

Format: None pages,

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more

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18. The Street of Crocodiles

By: Jonathan Safran Foer , Bruno Schulz , Jerzy Ficowski , Celina Wieniewska

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where r… read more

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"Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"Can there be anything sadder than a human being changed into the rubber tube of an enema?"

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

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19. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.60

Format: 5 pages, ebook

In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human… read more

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  • theory
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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20. 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
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
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21. The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

By: Leigh Phillips

3.90

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been tak… read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction
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22. ダンジョン飯 14 [Dungeon Meshi 14] (Delicious in Dungeon, #14)

By: Ryoko Kui

4.80

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

食べることは生きること 地上に生きる全ての生物の欲望を喰らおうとする悪魔。 止められるのは、ライオスのみ! 世界を救うための戦いの行方は!? 九井諒子描き下ろし漫画、10ページ収録の… read more

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23. 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
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation by Laboria Cuboniks

24. 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

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  • theory
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
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  • 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

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25. 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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  • transgender
  • theory
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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26. 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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  • transgender
  • theory
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  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
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27. Be Gay Do Crime

By: Mary Nardini Gang

4.51

Format: 125 pages, None

Among the discordant chorus of anons who penned the defining texts of the queer anarchist network B… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. One Is Not Born a Woman

By: Monique Wittig

3.78

Format: None pages, None

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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  • queer

29. Gender Acceleration: A Blackpaper

By: N1X

2.85

Format: None pages, ebook

None read more

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  • nonfiction
  • transgender

30. Hello From the Wired: An Introduction to Cyber-Nihilism

By: N1X

3.16

Format: 31 pages, None

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31. The Women's War

By: Robert Evans

4.92

Format: None pages, Audiobook

These are...not optimistic times for most Americans. Across the world, the dangers of climate chang… read more

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Transform Your Habits

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Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

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David Graeber

4.21

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

4.32

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Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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4.64

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4.49

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