The Twittering Machine
By: Richard Seymour
4.00
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
A brilliant probe into the political and psychological effects of our changing relationship with so…
Want to Read $ 9.99"The Luddites were also excellent trolls. They were, like the movement that was massacred at Peterloo a few years later, a prototypical class insurrection: but they carried it off with tremendous elan. The very name ‘Luddite’ deliberately evoked a fictitious leader, Ned Ludd, a product of legend and fantasy, fear of whom had British authorities and spies searching high and low for sign of him. His supporters decided that Mr Ludd lived in Sherwood Forest, home of the equally legendary Robin Hood, and signed their letters, ‘Ned Ludd’s Office, Sherwood Forest’. They cross-dressed and marched as ‘General Ludd’s wives’."-Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine
"Addiction occurs through choices, but somehow it also happens behind our backs. No one consciously sets out to devote themselves to the machine, to become its addict. Its veto power over all other possible attentions takes place, cumulatively, through every apparently free choice made as a user. We drop into the dead zone, the ‘ticker trance’ of feed addiction, by increment. The way the chronophagic machine fights for our attention recalls what Eastern Christianity used to call the demon of acedia. This was a predecessor of the modern concept of melancholia, and it was used in monasteries (those ancient writing machines) to describe an affliction of the devoted. In the original Greek, ‘akedia’ meant ‘lack of care’. In the Latinized Christian use propagated by Evagrius of Pontus, it described a lack of care about one’s life; a listless, restless spiritual lethargy. The condition left one yearning for distraction and continual novelty, exploiting one’s petty hates and hungers. It dissolved one’s capacity for attending, for living as if living mattered, into a series of itches demanding to be scratched. Ultimately, it was dehumanizing, corrosive of meaning: it was spiritual death."-Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine
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1. "Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
By: Sven Lindqvist , Joan Tate
4.22
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
"Exterminate All the Brutes" is a searching examination of Europe's dark history in Africa and the … read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
"Přesně toho jsem se bál. A přesně po tom jsem toužil."-Sven Lindqvist, "Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
"You already know enough. So do I. It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusions."-Sven Lindqvist, "Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
"The Norweigian philosopher Tonnesen said that to think about anything but death is evasion. Society, art, culture, the whole of civilisation is nothing but evasion, one great collective self delusion…"-Sven Lindqvist, "Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
"I am in good company, simply following those in front of me and knowing others are following behind. We are on our way up a narrow staircase. The bannister is a thick rope suggesting safety. The stai…"-Sven Lindqvist, "Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
2. Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)
By: Franco "Bifo" Berardi
3.91
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? In his most unsettling book to date,… read more
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- politics
- psychology
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- sociology
"Money is our shelter, the only way we have to access life. But at the same time, if you want money you have to renounce life."-Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)
"Nazism is essentially based on the negation of the human nature of the other, while Fascism is based on the aggressive inclusion of the other, and the punishment and extermination of those who refuse…"-Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)
"L’identità è lo strumento percettivo e concettuale che ci dà una possibilità di conoscenza, ma noi scambiamo questa conoscenza per un ri-conoscimento. Cosicché siamo condotti a credere di sapere già,…"-Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)
3. Norwood
By: Charles Portis
3.85
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Out of the American Neon Desert of Roller Dromes, chili parlors, The Grand Ole Opry, and girls who … read more
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"Don't let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash, son."-Charles Portis, Norwood
"They later moved to a tin-roof house that was situated in a gas field under a spectacular flare that burned all the time. Big copper-green beetles the size of mice came from all over the Southland to…"-Charles Portis, Norwood
4. Poverty Safari
By: Darren McGarvey
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more
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5. Campo Santo
By: W.G. Sebald
3.21
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"W. G. Sebald exemplified the best kind of cosmopolitan literary intelligence-humane, digressive, d… read more
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6. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
By: Mark Fisher
3.72
Format: None pages, Paperback
This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that… read more
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- philosophy
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- psychology
7. Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School
By: Stuart Jeffries
3.62
Format: None pages, ebook
"Grand Hotel Abyss investigates the lives and afterlives of the critical theorists who formed the F… read more
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- sociology
8. The Beatles
By: Hunter Davies
3.32
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
alternate cover for: ISBN 0393315711/ISBN13 9780393315714 In this behind-the-scenes look at the mos… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. The Medium is the Massage
By: Marshall McLuhan , Quentin Fiore , Jerome Agel
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Medium is the Massageis Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presenta… read more
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10. Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives
By: George Lakoff , Howard Dean , None
4.57
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Don't Think of An Elephant!is the antidote to the last forty years of conservative strategizing and… read more
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11. Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
By: Nick Srnicek , Alex Williams
3.46
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from work Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity … read more
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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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- politics
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
- 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
13. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
14. 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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- sociology
- technology
"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
15. K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
By: Mark Fisher
4.30
Format: 821 pages, Kindle Edition
A comprehensive collection of the writings of Mark Fisher (1968-2017), whose work defined critical … read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"Assimilation is sometimes the most effective kind of assassination."-Mark Fisher, K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
16. New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
By: James Bridle
4.05
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
“New Dark Age is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about the Internet, whi… read more
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- science
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- nonfiction
- sociology
- technology
17. 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
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- audiobook
18. The Twittering Machine
By: Richard Seymour
4.00
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
A brilliant probe into the political and psychological effects of our changing relationship with so… read more
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- audiobook
- cultural
- science
- politics
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- social media
- sociology
- technology
"The Luddites were also excellent trolls. They were, like the movement that was massacred at Peterloo a few years later, a prototypical class insurrection: but they carried it off with tremendous elan…"-Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine
"Addiction occurs through choices, but somehow it also happens behind our backs. No one consciously sets out to devote themselves to the machine, to become its addict. Its veto power over all other po…"-Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine
19. Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility
By: Franco "Bifo" Berardi
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A comprehensive philosophy of contemporary life and politics, by one of the sharpest critics of the… read more
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20. The Museum: From its Origins to the 21st Century
By: Owen Hopkins
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Visited by millions around the world every year, discover the untold story of The Museum, one of ma… read more
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21. Living Things
By: Munir Hachemi
3.82
Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition
Living Things follows four recent graduates – Munir, G, Ernesto and Álex – who travel from Madrid t… read more
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