Investigative Aesthetics. Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth
By: Matthew Fuller
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Today, artists are engaged in investigation. They probe corruption, state violence, environmental d…
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1. The Politics of Aesthetics
By: Jacques Rancière , Gabriel Rockhill
3.92
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aestheti… read more
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- art
- theory
- politics
- research
- philosophy
- nonfiction
2. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
3. The Wall
By: Shaun Whiteside , Marlen Haushofer
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
First published to acclaim in Germany, The Wall chronicles the life of the last surviving human on … read more
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"Even now I’m nothing but a thin skin covering a mountain of memories."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"My only teacher is as ignorant and untrained as I am, for my only teacher is myself."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"Never again shall I sit above the alpine roses in the midday sun, listening to the great silence."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
4. 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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- theory
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- 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
5. The Future of the Image
By: Jacques Rancière
4.26
Format: 91 pages, Hardcover
Lauded by major contemporary artists and philosophers, Jacques Ranciere's work returns politics to … read more
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6. The Word for World is Forest
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.36
Format: 189 pages, ebook
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more
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7. On Photography
By: Susan Sontag
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more
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- theory
- art
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
8. Season of Migration to the North
By: Tayeb Salih , Denys Johnson-Davies
3.72
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to h… read more
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"شفق المغيب ليس دماً ، ولكنه حناء في قدم المرأة"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"لا يعنيني أن كان للحياة معنى أو لم يكن لها معنى."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"أشباح الليل تتبخر مع الفجر ، وحمى النهار تبرد مع نسيم الليل"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
9. Torto Arado
By: Itamar Vieira Junior
4.49
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Vencedor dos prémios LeYa (2018) e Jabuti, finalista do Oceanos (2020). Um livro comovente que traz… read more
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"Olha, dona"-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado
"Durante algum tempo, pensei que pudesse haver uma ruptura entre nossas famílias, mas o perdão aflorava da bênção que poderia ser o retorno de alguém de qual somos parte."-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado
"Você incutiu naquelas vidas um respeito grande por suas próprias histórias. Mas agora nem você conseguia mais se iluminar com a esperança de que a mudança fosse possível, muito menos acreditava que a…"-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado
10. Cold Enough for Snow
By: Jessica Au
3.73
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more
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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
11. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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- politics
12. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
13. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
14. My Phantoms
By: Gwendoline Riley
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more
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15. Inhabiting the Negative Space
By: Jenny Odell
4.44
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
A hopeful meditation on how periods of inactivity become reimagined as fertile spaces for design an… read more
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- art
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- design
16. Investigative Aesthetics. Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth
By: Matthew Fuller
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Today, artists are engaged in investigation. They probe corruption, state violence, environmental d… read more
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- research
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- nonfiction
- design
- science
17. You Have Not Yet Been Defeated
By: Alaa Abd El-Fattah
4.56
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Alaa Abd el-Fattah, 39, is arguably the most high profile political prisoner in Egypt, if not the A… read more
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- nonfiction
18. Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
By: Eyal Weizman
4.62
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In recent years, the group Forensic Architecture began using novel research methods to undertake a … read more
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- architecture
- art
- theory
- politics
- nonfiction
19. Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space
By: Brian O'Doherty
3.96
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
When these essays first appeared in Artforum in 1976, their impact was immediate. They were discuss… read more
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- art
- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- design
20. The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza
By: Eyal Weizman
4.24
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Groundbreaking exploration of the philosophy underpinning Western humanitarian intervention The pr… read more
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- philosophy
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21. Mengele's Skull: The Advent of a Forensic Aesthetics
By: Thomas Keenan
4.13
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In 1985, the body of Josef Mengele, one of the last Nazi war criminals still at large, was unearthe… read more
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