7 Best art books like Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy by Ben Davis

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Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy

By: Ben Davis

4.48

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

“This kaleidoscopic collection will help you see and comprehend the world anew—which is, in my book…

If you liked the art plot in Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy by Ben Davis , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

By: Raymond Chandler

3.95

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more

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"Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres"

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

"I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets."

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

"Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake."

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

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2. Blind Spot

By: Teju Cole

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

In this innovative synthesis of words and images, the award-winning author of Open City and photogr… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"In one enciphering corner of my mind I believe still that every line in every poem is the orphaned caption of a lost photograph. By a related logic, each photograph sits in the antechamber of speech.…"

-Teju Cole, Blind Spot

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3. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more

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"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

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4. The Feast of the Goat

By: Mario Vargas Llosa , Edith Grossman

4.33

Format: 475 pages, Paperback

Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns… read more

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"باور نمی کردم که او به دوست قدیمی خودش نارو بزند. خب دیگر، سیاست یعنی همین، آدم روی جنازه دیگران جلو می رود."

-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat

"They had forgotten the abuses, the murders, the corruption, the spying, the isolation, the fear: horror had become myth. Everybody had jobs and there wasn't so much crime."

-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat

"миллионы людей, одурманенные пропагандой и отсутствием информации, отупевшие от догматизма и изоляции от внешнего мира, лишенные свободы и воли, а от страха—даже и любопытства, пришли к угодничеству …"

-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat

"Într-o clasificare după merite, pe primul loc se află militarii. Îşi fac datoria, se ţin foarte puţin de intrigi, nu pierd timpul. Apoi, tăranii. (…) Urmează funcţionarii, întreprinzătorii, comercian…"

-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat

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5. The Marriage Plot

By: Jeffrey Eugenides

3.32

Format: 224 pages,

With devastating wit and an abiding understanding of and affection for his characters, Jeffrey Euge… read more

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6. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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7. Lunch Poems

By: Frank O'Hara

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more

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8. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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9. Book of Numbers

By: Joshua Cohen

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

The enigmatic billionaire founder of Tetration, the world's most powerful tech company, hires a fai… read more

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10. Duchamp

By: Calvin Tomkins

3.37

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A New York Times Notable Book of 1996 Booklist Editor's Choice, 1996 The celebrated, full-scale lif… read more

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11. 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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Cover of Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism by Anna Kornbluh

12. 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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  • art
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

13. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

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"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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14. 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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  • nonfiction
"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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15. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

By: David Graeber

4.20

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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16. The Book of Delights: Essays

By: Ross Gay

4.16

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

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17. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

By: Bianca Bosker

4.16

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—thi… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
"Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures."

-Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

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18. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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  • nonfiction
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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19. Index Cards: Selected Essays

By: Moyra Davey

4.14

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

In these essays, the acclaimed artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker Moyra Davey often begins… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures) by Teju Cole

20. Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures)

By: Teju Cole

4.22

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form. “Darkness is not empty,” writes Tej… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • writing
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21. Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy

By: Ben Davis

4.48

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

“This kaleidoscopic collection will help you see and comprehend the world anew—which is, in my book… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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  • technology

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