Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-porn Addicts: A defence of growth, progress, industry and stuff
By: Leigh Phillips
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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1. Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
By: Peter Frase
3.78
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating exploration into the utopias and dystopias that could develop from present society … read more
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"the path that leads to utopia is not necessarily itself utopian"-Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
"… nature doesn’t care about us; it neither has interests nor desires, it simply exists."-Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
"But we can also say that even in a society without clear rulers, history will tend to empathize with the survivors; they are, after all, literally the only ones around to write it."-Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
"Both [social science & science fiction] attempt to understand empirical facts and lived experience as something that is shaped by abstract - and not directly perceptible - structural forces."-Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
2. Economics: The User's Guide
By: Ha-Joon Chang
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In his bestselling 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chan… read more
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"95% of economics is common sense"-Ha-Joon Chang, Economics: The User's Guide
"... the human tendency to be seduced by a theory that supposedly explains everything."-Ha-Joon Chang, Economics: The User's Guide
"95 per cent of economics is common sense – made to look difficult, with the use of jargons and mathematics."-Ha-Joon Chang, Economics: The User's Guide
"Once we learn that different economic theories say different things partly because they are based on different ethical and political values, we will have the confidence to discuss economics for what …"-Ha-Joon Chang, Economics: The User's Guide
3. 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
4. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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5. VALIS (VALIS Trilogy, #1)
By: Philip K. Dick
3.44
Format: 220 pages,
VALISis the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being The … read more
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6. Lock In (Lock In, #1)
By: John Scalzi
3.14
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the best-selling, Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi. N… read more
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7. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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8. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.05
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well… read more
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- climate change
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"[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon admixture and interbreeding."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"As an instrument of empowerment oil has been spectacularly effective in removing the levers of power from the reach of the populace. "No matter how many people take to the streets in massive marches,…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
9. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
By: Naomi Klein
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capit… read more
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10. Red Plenty
By: Francis Spufford
4.34
Format: 168 pages,
The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned… read more
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11. 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
12. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
By: Hannah Ritchie
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more
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- climate change
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13. Disunited Nations: Succeeding in a World Where No One Gets Along
By: Peter Zeihan
4.25
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran? Will the … read more
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"In many ways, industrialization is a straitjacket. The suite of industrial technologies improves literacy and mobility and reach and wealth and health, but without the inputs of oil, natural gas, iro…"-Peter Zeihan, Disunited Nations: Succeeding in a World Where No One Gets Along
14. Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
By: Kōhei Saitō
3.91
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary p… read more
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15. The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
By: Matthias Schmelzer
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Ec… read more
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16. Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
By: Matthew T. Huber
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Why the struggle against climate change is a class struggle The climate crisis is not primarily … read more
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- climate change
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"Why do we not focus on the activities associated with production and investment when considering the individual's carbon footprint? I argue that it is because what Marx called the "hidden abode of pr…"-Matthew T. Huber, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
17. Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
By: Andreas Malm
3.99
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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"Perhaps humanity should thank Covid-19 for taking the early route through Europe."-Andreas Malm, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
"More to the point, however, is that China could become the cradle of this disease only because global tendencies were present in the concentrated form."-Andreas Malm, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
"Corona can be an effect of climate; not the other way around. More importantly, the two are interlaced aspects, on different scale of time and space, of what is now one chronic emergency."-Andreas Malm, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
"It has taken the science some time to catch up and connect the dots, but, in 2012, one pathbreaking study derived one third of all existential threats to animal species straight from the sale of good…"-Andreas Malm, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
18. Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future
By: Joel Wainwright
3.67
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worse Despite the science and t… read more
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19. The Death of Omnipotence and Birth of Amipotence
By: Thomas Jay Oord
4.37
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
Omnipotence is dead. At least it should be. It has no biblical support. And it dies a death of a t… read more
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20. After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration
By: Holly Jean Buck
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
What if the people seized the means of climate production?The window for action on climate change i… read more
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21. Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-porn Addicts: A defence of growth, progress, industry and stuff
By: Leigh Phillips
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Economic growth, progress, industry and, erm, stuff have all come in for a sharp kicking from the g… read more
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