Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship
By: Claire Bishop
4.16
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
This searing critique of participatory art—from its development to its political ambitions—is “an e…
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1. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more
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"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
2. Aesthetic Theory
By: Theodor W. Adorno , Robert Hullot-Kentor
4.13
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Perhaps the most important aesthetics of the twentieth century appears here newly translated, in En… read more
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- art
- art history
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"Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it."-Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory
"The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art."-Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory
"If in keeping with Hegel’s insight all feeling related to an aesthetic object has an accidental aspect, usually that of psychological projection, then what the work demands from its beholder is knowl…"-Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory
3. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to… read more
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- politics
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- art
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5. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.80
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded sea… read more
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6. Ways of Seeing
By: John Berger
3.24
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
John Berger's Classic Text on Art John Berger's Ways of Seeingis one of the most stimulating and th… read more
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- art
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7. The Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love
By: Andy Merrifield
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A passionate attack on the tyranny of experts Modern life is being destroyed by experts and profess… read more
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- cultural
- politics
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- nonfiction
8. Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting
By: Sianne Ngai
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture. They dominate the look of its … read more
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- art
- cultural
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- nonfiction
9. 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
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10. A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
By: Lydia Davis , Lucia Berlin , None
3.90
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin… read more
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11. The Arcades Project
By: Walter Benjamin , Howard Eiland , Rolf Tiedemann , Kevin McLaughlin
2.50
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments … read more
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12. 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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13. 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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14. Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
By: None
4.67
Format: 127 pages, Hardcover
A field manual to the technologies that are changing our lives at bewildering speed Everywhere we t… read more
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15. On the Aesthetic Education of Man
By: Friedrich Schiller , Reginald Snell
3.82
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
"Essential reading." -- New Society. A classic of eighteenth-century thought, Friedrich Schiller's … read more
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16. Mythologies
By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more
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17. The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
By: None
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a… read more
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18. Art as Experience
By: John Dewey
4.83
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harva… read more
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19. Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People, and Fantastic Adventure from Chess to Role-Playing Games
By: Jon Peterson
4.00
Format: 290 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Explore the conceptual origins of wargames and role-playing games in this unprecedented history of … read more
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20. 10:04
By: Ben Lerner
3.97
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
In the last year, the narrator of 10:04has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed wi… read more
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21. Réinventer l'amour: Comment le patriarcat sabote les relations hétérosexuelles
By: Mona Chollet
4.05
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
Nombre de femmes et d'hommes qui cherchent l'épanouissement amoureux ensemble se retrouvent très dé… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
22. City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.96
Format: 500 pages, Hardcover
Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fanta… read more
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23. Tremor
By: Teju Cole
3.69
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more
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"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."-Teju Cole, Tremor
24. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
By: Amia Srinivasan
4.25
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
25. The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity (Game Histories)
By: Jon Peterson
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
How the early Dungeons & Dragons community grappled with the nature of role-playing games, theorizi… read more
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26. Please Report Your Bug Here
By: Josh Riedel
3.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Introducing Josh Riedel's adrenaline-packed debut novel about a dating app employee who discovers a… read more
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27. Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship
By: Claire Bishop
4.16
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
This searing critique of participatory art—from its development to its political ambitions—is “an e… read more
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- art history
- cultural
- theory
- politics
- art design
- research
- academic
- philosophy
- nonfiction
28. Moderne icone di moda
By: Federica Muzzarelli
3.40
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Fu un meccanismo irresistibile quello che si mise in moto quando sei personaggi-chiave dell'immagin… read more
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29. Il corpo e l'azione
By: Federica Muzzarelli
4.17
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
Le dimensioni del corpo e dell'azione lette attraverso la vita e la ricerca di dodici artiste che, … read more
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30. Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space
By: Brian O'Doherty
3.96
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
When these essays first appeared in Artforum in 1976, their impact was immediate. They were discuss… read more
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31. Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology
By: Lizzie O'Shea
3.86
Format: 367 pages, ebook
A highly engaging tour through progressive history in the service of emancipating our digital tomor… read more
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