Hauntology: Ghosts of Futures Past
By: Merlin Coverley
3.77
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Ghosts and specters, the eerie and the occult. Why is contemporary culture so preoccupied by the su…
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1. Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
By: Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser
4.00
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step t… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"The balance of terror is the terror of balance."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"Forgetting extermination is part of extermination."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"But when everything is repressed, nothing is anymore."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"Nada llegó ni llegará ahora al término de su historia."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
2. High-Rise
By: J.G. Ballard
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more
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"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
3. 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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- nonfiction
4. The Crystal World
By: J.G. Ballard
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
J. G. Ballard's fourth novel, which established his reputation as a writer of extraordinary talent … read more
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5. Story of the Eye
By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more
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"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
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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- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
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8. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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9. All Hallows' Eve
By: Charles Williams
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
Charles Williams had a genius for choosing strange and exciting themes for his novels and making th… read more
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10. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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11. The Mothman Prophecies
By: John A. Keel
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
West Virginia, 1966. For thirteen months the town of Point Pleasant is gripped by a real-life night… read more
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12. The Weird and the Eerie
By: Mark Fisher
3.69
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the mo… read more
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13. 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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- history
"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
14. The Complete Poems
By: William Blake , Alicia Suskin Ostriker
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and … read more
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15. Cher connard
By: Virginie Despentes
3.62
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
C’est une suite de lettres entre amis qui se sauvent la vie. Dans ce roman épistolaire, Virginie De… read more
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16. Starve Acre
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more
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"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre
"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre
17. 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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"Assimilation is sometimes the most effective kind of assassination."-Mark Fisher, K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
18. Nophek Gloss
By: Essa Hansen
3.58
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
When a young man's planet is destroyed, he sets out on a single-minded quest for revenge across the… read more
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19. Hauntology: Ghosts of Futures Past
By: Merlin Coverley
3.77
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Ghosts and specters, the eerie and the occult. Why is contemporary culture so preoccupied by the su… read more
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20. Scaffolding
By: Lauren Elkin
3.86
Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more
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21. War in Heaven
By: Charles Williams
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found: here A battle over the most sacred object in Chri… read more
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"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
