The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (Software Studies)
By: Benjamin H. Bratton
3.94
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack…
Want to Read $ 24.99"Yes, you are a battery."-Benjamin H. Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (Software Studies)
"Yes, you are a battery."-Benjamin H. Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (Software Studies)
"Tomorrow, may I have your yesterday?"-Benjamin H. Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (Software Studies)
"Tomorrow, may I have your yesterday?"-Benjamin H. Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (Software Studies)
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1. Technics and Civilization
By: Lewis Mumford
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is a history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization. Mumford has d… read more
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2. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
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3. Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
By: René Girard , Stephen Bann , Michael Metteer
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devast… read more
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4. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
By: Nicholas Carr
3.28
Format: 437 pages, Paperback
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5. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
By: Dave Thomas , Andy Hunt
3.28
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
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6. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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7. The Open Society and Its Enemies
By: None
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and published in two volumes … read more
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8. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari , Brian Massumi
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key… read more
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9. The Savage Mind
By: Claude Lévi-Strauss
3.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
An examination of the structure of the thought of primitive' peoples, and has contributed significa… read more
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10. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
By: None , Keith Gessen
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
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11. A Short History of Progress
By: Ronald Wright
4.04
Format: 431 pages, Paperback
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12. Gravity's Rainbow
By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more
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13. The Decline of the West
By: Oswald Spengler , None
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since its first publication in two volumes between 1918-1923, The Decline of the Westhas ranked as … read more
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14. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
By: Donna J. Haraway
3.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway o… read more
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15. Ideology and Utopia: An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge
By: Louis Wirth , None , None
4.53
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Mannheim, a pioneer in the field of SOCIOLOGY (740), here analyzes the ideologies that are used to … read more
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16. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
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18. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
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19. Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A startling new look at quantum theory, from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physi… read more
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"But structures are processes are not there so that organisms can survive and reproduce. It is the other way round: organisms survive and reproduce because these structures have happened to gradually …"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
"Credo che uno dei grandi errori che fanno gli esseri umani quando tentano di capire qualcosa sia volere certezze. La ricerca della conoscenza non si nutre di certezze: si nutre di una radicale assenz…"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
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20. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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21. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
22. 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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"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
23. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
By: Kate Crawford
3.99
Format: 288 pages, ebook
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality,… read more
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24. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star… read more
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"İkinci Aydınlanma salt verilerle işleyen bilginin devrimidir."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Geleceğimiz, üretimin ötesinde, 'kullanılmazı kullanmayı' becerebilecek durumda olup olmamamıza bağlıdır."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"People who fail in the neoliberal archievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Günümüzün üretim tarzını niteleyen birilikte çalışan 'çokluk' (Multitude) değil, yalıtılmış, kendiyle kavga eden, kendini gönüllü olarak sömüren girişimcinin yalnızlığıdır (Solitude)."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
25. Todo lo que crece
By: Clara Obligado
4.37
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Según el Génesis, el primer castigo fue botánico, y consistió en expulsarnos de un paraíso, de un j… read more
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26. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
By: Henry Farrell
4.00
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27. Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital
By: Jason W. Moore
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitali… read more
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28. The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (Software Studies)
By: Benjamin H. Bratton
3.94
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack… read more
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"Yes, you are a battery."-Benjamin H. Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (Software Studies)
"Tomorrow, may I have your yesterday?"-Benjamin H. Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (Software Studies)
"Platforms don't look like how they work and don't work like how they look."-Benjamin H. Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (Software Studies)
"Airports are not simulations of cities; rather cities are simulations of airports."-Benjamin H. Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (Software Studies)
29. Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
By: Bernard Stiegler
4.11
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
What is a technical object? At the beginning of Western philosophy, Aristotle contrasted beings for… read more
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30. Snow Crash
By: Neal Stephenson
4.02
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
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"To condense fact from the vapor of nuance."-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
"I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo."-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
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31. Imperium : Structures et affects des corps politiques
By: Frédéric Lordon
4.00
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
What should we do with the ideals of internationalism, the withering away of state and horizontalit… read more
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