The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work
By: Jason Read
4.09
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
2. The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
By: Kathi Weeks
4.19
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labo… read more
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- politics
- economics
"Freedom thus depends on collective action rather than individual will, and this is what makes it political. Though freedom is, by account, a relational practice, it is not a zero-sum game in which th…"-Kathi Weeks, The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
3. 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
"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
4. 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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"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
5. 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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6. Black Hole
By: Charles Burns
2.83
Format: 124 pages, Hardcover
Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon… read more
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7. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
By: Noam Chomsky , Edward S. Herman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book . In this pathb… read more
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- politics
- economics
8. The Lathe of Heaven
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more
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9. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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10. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
11. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more
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- philosophy
"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
12. Gravity's Rainbow
By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more
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13. The Political Unconscious
By: Fredric Jameson
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this ground-breaking and influential study Fredric Jameson explores the complex place and functi… read more
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14. Willing Slaves of Capital: Spinoza and Marx on Desire
By: Frédéric Lordon
3.86
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
Why do people work for other people? This seemingly naive question is at the heart of Lordon's argu… read more
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15. No Country for Old Men
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN # - 9780375706677 In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy ret… read more
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16. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
17. Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
By: Anna Kornbluh
4.08
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural style Contemporary cultural style boo… read more
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- politics
- economics
18. Paradise Rot
By: Jenny Hval
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more
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"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
19. 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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"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
20. Strangers on a Train
By: Patricia Highsmith
3.73
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
" Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Hig… read more
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"The word “marriage"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"I know that Southern redhead type,"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm."-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
21. Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures
By: Mark Fisher
4.29
Format: 211 pages, None
Edited with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this idiosyncratic collection of lecture notes and t… read more
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22. 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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23. Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital
By: Søren Mau
4.40
Format: None pages, ebook
[From Author's Summary] Despite a decade of crisis and social unrest, capitalism is in many ways … read more
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24. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
25. Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Salvage Editions)
By: Kevin Ochieng Okoth
4.15
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
Salvaging a decolonised futureRed Africa makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired… read more
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26. After Work: The Politics of Free Time
By: Helen Hester
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A timely manifesto for a feminist post-work politics Does it ever feel like you have no free tim… read more
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27. Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
By: Robert Chapman
4.39
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
‘Groundbreaking … [provides] a deep history of the invention of the “normal” mind as one of the mo… read more
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28. The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work
By: Jason Read
4.09
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
"Why do people fight for their exploitation as if it was liberation?" How Marx and Spinoza can expl… read more
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29. Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis
By: Alberto Toscano
3.94
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
How do we understand the return of fascism today? In a world shaken by ecological, economic and po… read more
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- politics
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30. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.24
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more
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31. Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat
By: Hannah Proctor
4.32
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
In the struggle for a better world, setbacks are inevitable. Defeat can feel overwhelming at times,… read more
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