19 Best nonfiction books like The Choreography of Everyday Life by Annie-B Parson

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Similar categories in Vladimir Lenin's The State and Revolution book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

• theory
• nonfiction

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

Similar categories in Leonard Koren's Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

• art
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Ursula Parrott's Ex-wife book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

Similar categories in Susan Sontag's On Photography book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

• theory
• art
• nonfiction

"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

Similar categories in Grayson Perry's Playing to the Gallery book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

Similar categories in Michael Hulse's The Rings of Saturn book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

Similar categories in Clarice Lispector's Água Viva book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

"I always give names to things"

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

Similar categories in Joanna Biggs's A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

• nonfiction

"The wound my unsuspecting heart formerly received is not healed,"

-Joanna Biggs, A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

Similar categories in Claire Dederer's Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

• art
• nonfiction

"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Similar categories in Anne Enright's The Wren, the Wren book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

Similar categories in Jenny Hval's Paradise Rot book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

"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

Similar categories in Ashley Shew's Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

• nonfiction
• sociology

Similar categories in Heather Radke's Butts: A Backstory book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

• nonfiction
• sociology

"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

Similar categories in Noor Naga's If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

Similar categories in Izumi Suzuki's Terminal Boredom: Stories book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

"INSUFFICIENT VEGETABLE OIL,’ quoth the replicator."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"And having four kids? Giving birth to them naturally? What is she, an animal?"

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"When we first met, Reiko still had something of a wrecked beauty. Now, not even those ruins remained."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"I’m a sucker for trends. I don’t have much in the way of agency. I always want to try whatever’s popular."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

Similar categories in Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

• nonfiction

"I don't even know if there was anyone that's ever felt as I do.. how they coped, what they did...how do I find out what someone like me does?"

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"A big fear of mine is that I will die before the gender professionals acknowledge that someone like me exists, and then I really won't exist to prove them wrong."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"In a lot of ways I think the problem is I spend too much time seeing myself though other people's eyes and not really being in my body and enjoying myself and relaxing in my image."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"I finally said, "Let's put it this way: I'd rather lose you than stop my shots.""You mean that chemical is more important to you than I am?""No, I am more important to me than you are."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's Parade book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

• art

"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

Similar categories in Nancy Fraser's Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

• theory
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Katherine Angel's Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

• nonfiction
• sociology

"The fantasy of total autonomy, and of total self-knowledge, is not only a fantasy; it’s a nightmare."

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Any model of consent can prove itself worthless if a man is not open to his sexual partner's no, or her changing desires, and if he responds to either of these with a rage borne of humiliation."

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Why not aim for sex itself as being deeply mutually pleasurable? Why not aim for a culture that embraces and enables women’s sexual pleasure, in all its complexity, and admits the complexity of male …"

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Instead of resigning ourselves to the inevitability of bad sex, and even romanticizing it as merely youthful misadventure, we should subject it to sustained scrutiny. Bad sex emerges from gender norm…"

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

Similar categories in Adrienne Maree Brown's Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

• nonfiction

"In other words, I want an erotic that demands space be made for honest bodies that like to also fuck."

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"revolution cannot be created by conforming to existing roles in relationships already defined by the systems we want to overthrow."

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"Women and femmes who love money are free to be demanding. The world has tried to fool them into thinking that getting paid for care or sex “cheapens"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"Money buys protection. It buys time off and privacy. And it buys nice, pretty shit. Money also buys food, housing, and health care. Getting paid enough to meet our needs—and more—feels good. I’m not …"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

Similar categories in Constance Debré's Play Boy book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

Similar categories in Sophie Lewis's Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

• theory
• nonfiction
• sociology

Similar categories in Kae Tempest's On Connection book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

• art
• nonfiction

"When I am numb, how can I make myself connected? I can't. But I can try to create an environment that is welcoming for connection if it should turn up."

-Kae Tempest, On Connection

"Words on a page are incomplete. The poem, the novel or the non-fiction pamphlet are finished when they are taken up and engaged with. Connection is collaborative. For words to have meaning, they have…"

-Kae Tempest, On Connection

"We are empathic beings who feel for each other. Our very success as a species is rooted in our ability to be aware of each other's needs, to notice each other's pain and to experience deeply felt phy…"

-Kae Tempest, On Connection

"The work that I do on myself may not be evident in my daily exchanges, but little by little, if I continue, I hope that my actions will reflect my changing mindset, and next time, I promise myself, I…"

-Kae Tempest, On Connection

Similar categories in James Bridle's Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

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"What would it mean to build artificial intelligences and other machines that were more like octopuses, more like fungi, or more like forests?"

-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

"We can’t read water in the same way as we can’t read data…Working with it makes us more aware of the distance between ourselves and the matter under consideration: it reminds us that we share this wo…"

-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

Similar categories in Ali Smith's Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3) book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

"We move from one invisibility to another."

-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

"..cruelty to animals will get you punished but cruelty to humans will get you promotion."

-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

"You can’t just ask strangers to drive you up and down the country. This is the twenty first century. Strangers are more dangerous than ever; we’ve never been more dangerous."

-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

"Then the three minutes of black and white are over and what's left is the story of human beings and air, something we hardly ever notice or think about, something we couldn't live without."

-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

Similar categories in Sally Rooney's Intermezzo book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

Similar categories in Bhaskar Sunkara's The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

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Similar categories in Etel Adnan's Shifting the Silence book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

• nonfiction

"Silence is the creation of space, a space that memory needs to use . . . an incubator. We're dealing here with dimensions, stretching our inner muscles, pushing aside any interference. We're dealing …"

-Etel Adnan, Shifting the Silence

Similar categories in Timothy Morton's Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

• theory
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

• cultural
• art
• theory
• nonfiction
• sociology

Similar categories in Chantal Mouffe's Towards A Green Democratic Revolution: Left Populism and the Power of Affects book and Annie-B Parson's The Choreography of Everyday Life

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