Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction
By: Mark Fisher
4.10
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Donna Haraway's celebrated observation that "our machines are disturbingly lively, while we ourselv…
Want to Read"El poder ha completado el espectáculo al hacerlo interactivo; pero, al hacer esto, ha terminado con el espectáculo como tal, ha inaugurado un sistema nuevo, un sistema completamente inclusivo, que obsolesce toda noción de alienación (y, por consiguiente, toda su crítica)."-Mark Fisher, Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction
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1. Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
By: Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser
4.00
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step t… read more
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"The balance of terror is the terror of balance."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"Forgetting extermination is part of extermination."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"But when everything is repressed, nothing is anymore."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"Nada llegó ni llegará ahora al término de su historia."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
2. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
By: William Gibson
3.89
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more
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"Boy, I was daid."-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
"Things aren't different. Things are things."-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
3. 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
4. Crash
By: J.G. Ballard
3.59
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scie… read more
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"After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"As I sat with her by the airport fence in her darkened car, her white breast in my hand lit by the ascending airliners, the shape and tenderness of her nipple seemed to rape my fingers."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at …"-J.G. Ballard, Crash
5. Bergsonism
By: Gilles Deleuze , Hugh Tomlinson , Barbara Habberjam
4.13
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
What is needed for something new to appear? According to Gilles Deleuze, one of the most brilliant … read more
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"This is the meaning of philosophy, insofar as our condition condemns us to live among badly analyzed composites and to be badly analyzed composites ourselves."-Gilles Deleuze, Bergsonism
"Only emotion differs in nature from both intelligence and instinct, from both intelligent individual egoism and quasi-instinctive social pressure. Obviously no one denies that egoism produces emotion…"-Gilles Deleuze, Bergsonism
6. Ethics
By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None
4.10
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fu… read more
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"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body"-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
7. Zeros and Ones
By: Sadie Plant
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A highly contentious, very readable and totally up-to-the-minute investigation of women's natural r… read more
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8. 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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9. Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials
By: Reza Negarestani
3.92
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
At once a horror fiction, a work of speculative theology, an atlas of demonology, a political samiz… read more
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10. The Atrocity Exhibition
By: William S. Burroughs , J.G. Ballard , V. Vale , Phoebe Gloeckner , Andrea Juno , Ana Barrado
4.11
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Easily one of the 20th century's most visionary writers, J. G. Ballard still lives far ahead of his… read more
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11. Death Sentence
By: Lydia Davis , Maurice Blanchot
4.48
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
This long awaited reprint of a book about which John Hollander wrote: 'A masterful version of one o… read more
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12. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari , Brian Massumi
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key… read more
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13. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an ess… read more
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14. Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987-2007
By: Ray Brassier , Robin Mackay , Nick Land
4.02
Format: 982 pages, Paperback
Level 1, or world-space, is an anthropomorphically scaled, predominantly vision-configured, massive… read more
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15. The Poetics of Space
By: Gaston Bachelard , Maria Jolas , Étienne Gilson , John R. Stilgoe
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since its first publication in English in 1964, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Sp… read more
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16. The Birth of Tragedy
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside
3.99
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more
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"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
17. The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
By: Stephanie Kelton
4.04
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Bestseller The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary… read more
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18. Ccru: Writings 1997-2003
By: CCRU
4.08
Format: 666 pages, Kindle Edition
This first comprehensive collection of utterances from the Ccru-entity to appear in book form track… read more
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"Neo-China arrives from the future."-CCRU, Ccru: Writings 1997-2003
19. 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
20. Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction
By: Mark Fisher
4.10
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Donna Haraway's celebrated observation that "our machines are disturbingly lively, while we ourselv… read more
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"El poder ha completado el espectáculo al hacerlo interactivo; pero, al hacer esto, ha terminado con el espectáculo como tal, ha inaugurado un sistema nuevo, un sistema completamente inclusivo, que ob…"-Mark Fisher, Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction
21. Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape
By: Acid Horizon
3.76
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
Anti-Oculus is a psychedelic trip through the eyes of power, exploring avenues of escaping systems … read more
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