8 must-read history books like Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern by Stuart Jeffries

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Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern

By: Stuart Jeffries

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Postmodernism stood for everything modernism rejected: fun, exuberance, irresponsibility. But benea…

"Just as sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, irony is the feeblest kind of indictment. And yet it has become the go-to rhetorical stance of the post-modernist. By maintaining a cool, affectless stance, irony colludes, unconsciously or otherwise, with what it overtly disdains."

-Stuart Jeffries, Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern

"Just as sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, irony is the feeblest kind of indictment. And yet it has become the go-to rhetorical stance of the post-modernist. By maintaining a cool, affectless stance, irony colludes, unconsciously or otherwise, with what it overtly disdains."

-Stuart Jeffries, Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern

"No es solo que las empresas de redes sociales vendan nuestros datos personales a terceros para ganar dinero con nosotros, no es solo que se haya abandonado la comunicación cara a cara en favor de la tarea más propia de Sísifo de actualizar el timeline de Facebook, sino que todas las relaciones humanas se han reconfigurado según la normalidad de las compras. Los amantes se han convertido en productos desechables, los amigos de Facebook se descartan cuando no satisfacen al cliente, los conflictos personales se evitan en favor de unas reseñas anónimas más tóxicas que las que daríamos a una aspiradora que funciona mal. Bauman señala que las aptitudes sociales declinan cuando tratamos a «otros seres humanos como objetos de consumo y los juzgamos, por el patrón de los objetos de consumo, según el nivel de placer que nos garantizan [...]. En el mejor de los casos, los otros son nuestros compañeros en la actividad esencialmente solitaria del consumo»."

-Stuart Jeffries, Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern

"No es solo que las empresas de redes sociales vendan nuestros datos personales a terceros para ganar dinero con nosotros, no es solo que se haya abandonado la comunicación cara a cara en favor de la tarea más propia de Sísifo de actualizar el timeline de Facebook, sino que todas las relaciones humanas se han reconfigurado según la normalidad de las compras. Los amantes se han convertido en productos desechables, los amigos de Facebook se descartan cuando no satisfacen al cliente, los conflictos personales se evitan en favor de unas reseñas anónimas más tóxicas que las que daríamos a una aspiradora que funciona mal. Bauman señala que las aptitudes sociales declinan cuando tratamos a «otros seres humanos como objetos de consumo y los juzgamos, por el patrón de los objetos de consumo, según el nivel de placer que nos garantizan [...]. En el mejor de los casos, los otros son nuestros compañeros en la actividad esencialmente solitaria del consumo»."

-Stuart Jeffries, Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern

If you liked the history plot in Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern by Stuart Jeffries , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. No Logo

By: Naomi Klein

3.89

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition, No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"(...) losing one's job is much less frightening when getting it seemed an accident in the first place."

-Naomi Klein, No Logo

"When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?"

-Naomi Klein, No Logo

"Competitive branding became a necessity of the machine age — within a context of manufactured sameness; image-based difference had to be manufactured along with the product."

-Naomi Klein, No Logo

"Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and…"

-Naomi Klein, No Logo

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2. Orientalism

By: None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."

-None, Orientalism

"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."

-None, Orientalism

"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."

-None, Orientalism

"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."

-None, Orientalism

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3. Mao II

By: Don DeLillo

4.31

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

"One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The N… read more

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4. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

By: John Ashbery

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

John Ashberry won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle… read more

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5. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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6. The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

By: Daniel J. Boorstin

4.11

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of "pseudo-events"… read more

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7. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

By: Benedict Anderson

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more

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8. Mythologies

By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more

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9. Leviathan

By: Paul Auster

4.32

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy) opens Leviathanwith the tearin… read more

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10. Waterland

By: Graham Swift

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Unknown Binding

Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunte… read more

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11. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

By: Yascha Mounk

4.08

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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13. A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

By: Daniel Susskind

3.84

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of ho… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"the future , they say ; holds both obsolescence and ever-greater relevance ; technology is a threat and an opportunity ; a rival and a partner , a foe and a friend"

-Daniel Susskind, A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

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14. The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism

By: John Gray

3.54

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we un… read more

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  • social science
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

By: Byung-Chul Han

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"İkinci Aydınlanma salt verilerle işleyen bilginin devrimidir."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"Geleceğimiz, üretimin ötesinde, 'kullanılmazı kullanmayı' becerebilecek durumda olup olmamamıza bağlıdır."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"People who fail in the neoliberal archievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"Günümüzün üretim tarzını niteleyen birilikte çalışan 'çokluk' (Multitude) değil, yalıtılmış, kendiyle kavga eden, kendini gönüllü olarak sömüren girişimcinin yalnızlığıdır (Solitude)."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

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16. Hoe migratie echt werkt

By: Hein de Haas

4.43

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Migratie-expert Hein de Haas vertelt het ware verhaal over migratie en de effecten ervan. Al jar… read more

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  • social science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Poor

By: Caleb Femi

4.46

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONChosen as a Book of the Year by New Statesman … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"This same officer had an horizon in the east of his smile when he told your class that you were all supernovas, the biggest and brightest stars. ... While fear condenses on your lips, you will rememb…"

-Caleb Femi, Poor

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18. Too Late to Awaken What Lies Ahead When There Is No Future?

By: Slavoj Žižek

3.93

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The most provocative philosopher of our times returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis … read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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19. Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern

By: Stuart Jeffries

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Postmodernism stood for everything modernism rejected: fun, exuberance, irresponsibility. But benea… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Jeffries's Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern book and Stuart Jeffries's Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern

  • art
  • social science
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • cultural studies
  • audiobook
"Just as sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, irony is the feeblest kind of indictment. And yet it has become the go-to rhetorical stance of the post-modernist. By maintaining a cool, affectless stance,…"

-Stuart Jeffries, Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern

"No es solo que las empresas de redes sociales vendan nuestros datos personales a terceros para ganar dinero con nosotros, no es solo que se haya abandonado la comunicación cara a cara en favor de la …"

-Stuart Jeffries, Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern

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20. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Liberalism as a Way of Life

By: Alexandre Lefebvre

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life―and how you can beco… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
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Greg Lukianoff

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