Enjoyment Right & Left
By: Todd McGowan
4.28
Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition
While understanding the psychic structure of pleasure and desire might seem to be unrelated to gras…
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1. Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform
By: None , John F. Pfaff
4.07
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
"A succinct, powerful explanation of why much of what we think about the incarceration boom is prob… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
2. Suttree
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.20
Format: 471 pages, Paperback
This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disi… read more
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"Somebody has been fuckin my watermelons."-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse"-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream"-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"You have no right to represent people this way, he said. A man is all men. You have no right to your wretchednes."-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
3. Ethics of the Real: Kant, Lacan
By: Alenka Zupančič
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it proposes a moral law independent of… read more
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- philosophy
- psychoanalysis
- nonfiction
4. God and the State
By: Paul Avrich , Mikhail Bakunin
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Among the 19th-century founders of modern philosophical anarchism, none is more important than Mich… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
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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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
6. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
7. The Sound and the Fury
By: William Faulkner
3.86
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more
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"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
8. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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9. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
By: Judith Butler
3.81
Format: None pages,
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more
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10. The Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity
By: Catherine Malabou
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
In the usual order of things, lives run their course and eventually one becomes who one is. Bodily … read more
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11. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more
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12. Civilization and Its Discontents
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more
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13. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
14. 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
- nonfiction
15. What IS Sex?
By: Alenka Zupančič
4.25
Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition
Consider sublimation -- conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual s… read more
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- psychoanalysis
- nonfiction
"It is perhaps not enough to say that there is no essence of femininity; one could go a step further and say that the essence of femininity is to pretend to be a woman. One is a woman if one carries c…"-Alenka Zupančič, What IS Sex?
"... one of the primary tasks of psychoanalysis is to slowly but thoroughly deactive the path of this satisfaction, to render it useless. To produce sex as absolutely and intrinsically meaningless, no…"-Alenka Zupančič, What IS Sex?
"... one of the primary tasks of psychoanalysis is to slowly but thoroughly deactive the path of this satisfaction, to render it useless. To produce sex as absolutely and intrinsically meaningsless, n…"-Alenka Zupančič, What IS Sex?
16. 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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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
"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?
17. Deluge: Gaza and Israel from Crisis to Cataclysm
By: Jamie Stern-Weiner
4.54
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Why did Hamas attack? What is Israel trying to achieve? Did this catastrophe have to happen? And is… read more
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- nonfiction
18. On Community (Field Notes, #8)
By: Casey Plett
4.41
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
ONE OF CBC BOOKS CANADIAN NONFICTION TO READ IN THE FALL We need community to live. But what doe… read more
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19. Enjoyment Right & Left
By: Todd McGowan
4.28
Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition
While understanding the psychic structure of pleasure and desire might seem to be unrelated to gras… read more
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20. The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects
By: Mari Ruti
4.24
Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition
In The Ethics of Opting Out, Mari Ruti provides an accessible yet theoretically rigorous account of… read more
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- psychoanalysis
- nonfiction
"Withholding speech, in other words, can signify domination: the one who says less wins the emotional game, which is exactly why self-help guides aimed at straight women ... advise women to meet men’s…"-Mari Ruti, The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects
"At the core of Lacanian ethics if therefore the idea that the subject who steps into the real - the place of the lack in the Other - severes its ties to the symbolic order. Such a subject is no longe…"-Mari Ruti, The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects
"At the core of Lacanian ethics is therefore the idea that the subject who steps into the real - the place of the lack in the Other - severes its ties to the symbolic order. Such a subject is no longe…"-Mari Ruti, The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects
21. Embracing the Void: Rethinking the Origin of the Sacred (Diaeresis)
By: Richard Boothby
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A radical reinterpretation of the origin of religion through a psychoanalytic theorization of the u… read more
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- psychoanalysis
