In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities
By: Jean Baudrillard
3.83
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The whole chaotic constellation of the social revolves around that spongy reference, that opaque bu…
Want to Read $ 7.99"Mass(age) is the message."-Jean Baudrillard, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities
"Mass(age) is the message."-Jean Baudrillard, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities
"Mass(age) is the message."-Jean Baudrillard, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities
"The hyperreal is the abolition of the real not by violent destruction, but by its assumption, elevation to the strength of the model. Anticipation, deterrence, preventive transfiguration, etc.: the model acts as a sphere of absorption of the real."-Jean Baudrillard, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities
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1. Naked Lunch
By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz
3.46
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more
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"Exterminate all rational thought"-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
2. The Book of Disquiet
By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith
4.41
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more
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- philosophy
"My past is everything I failed to be."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
3. Confessions of an English Opium Eater
By: Thomas de Quincey , Barry Milligan
4.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Cla… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
By: Gilles Deleuze , Robert Hurley
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Spinoza's theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology, … read more
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- theory
- politics
- philosophy
- france
- 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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- theory
- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
6. Story of the Eye
By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more
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- france
"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
7. Nadja
By: André Breton , Richard Howard
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Nadja, originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance eve… read more
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- france
"I am the soul in limbo."-André Breton, Nadja
"Le coeur humain, beau comme un sismographe."-André Breton, Nadja
"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."-André Breton, Nadja
"...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours."-André Breton, Nadja
8. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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9. Eclipse of Reason
By: Max Horkheimer
3.67
Format: 350 pages,
"Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) was a leading figure in The Frankfurt School, a renowned body of philos… read more
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10. Les Nourritures terrestres: suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures
By: André Gide
3.68
Format: 248 pages, Pocket Book
« Nathanaël, je t'enseignerai la ferveur. Une existence pathétique, Nathanaël, plutôt que la tranq… read more
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- france
"ای کاش «اهمیت» در نگاه تو باشد نه در چیزی که به آن مینگری."-André Gide, Les Nourritures terrestres: suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures
"My happiness is made of fervour. Through the medium of all things without distinction, I have passionately worshipped"-André Gide, Les Nourritures terrestres: suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures
"Commandements de Dieu, vous avez rendu malade mon âme, / Vous avez entouré de murs les seuls eaux pour me désaltérer."-André Gide, Les Nourritures terrestres: suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures
"Que toute émotion sache te devenir une ivresse. Si ce que tu manges ne te grise pas, c'est que tu n'avais pas assez faim."-André Gide, Les Nourritures terrestres: suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures
11. Phenomenology of Spirit
By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , A.V. Miller , John Niemeyer Findlay
3.96
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Perhaps one of the most revolutionary works of philosophy ever presented, The Phenomenology of Spir… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"The vanity of the contents"-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
"The outcome is the same as the beginning only because the beginning is an end."-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
"Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject."-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
"por lo poco que el espíritu necesita para contentarse, puede medirse la extensión de lo que ha perdido."-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
12. Journey to the End of the Night
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann
4.19
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more
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- philosophy
- france
"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
13. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
14. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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15. Nightwood
By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more
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16. In Praise of Love
By: Alain Badiou , Peter Bush , Nicolas Truong
4.41
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death. Caught between consumerism and casua… read more
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17. Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
By: Édouard Louis
4.13
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de t… read more
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- france
"Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible."-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence impos…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher w…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
18. Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
By: Johann Hari
4.27
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the Wa… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
"If you picture of a perfect After-life, it's being with the people you love all the time. He asked me: Why wouldn't you choose today: when you're still alive, to be truely present with the people you…"-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
"...Every one of the social and psychological causes of depression and anxiety they have discovered has something in common. They are all forms of disconnection. They are all ways in which we have bee…"-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
"Un día descubrió que nunca podía desembarazarse de «esa sensación de no tener un futuro». Ni siquiera se veía capaz de planificar con unos días de antelación. Los comentarios de sus amigos sobre hipo…"-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
"Robert Kohlenberg, a professor of psychology, once thought that depression and anxiety were different things. But as he studied it, he discovered that "the data are indicating they're not that distin…"-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
19. In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities
By: Jean Baudrillard
3.83
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The whole chaotic constellation of the social revolves around that spongy reference, that opaque bu… read more
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- theory
- politics
- academic
- philosophy
- france
- nonfiction
- essays
- cultural studies
- sociology
"Mass(age) is the message."-Jean Baudrillard, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities
"The hyperreal is the abolition of the real not by violent destruction, but by its assumption, elevation to the strength of the model. Anticipation, deterrence, preventive transfiguration, etc.: the m…"-Jean Baudrillard, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities
20. Jean Baudrillard: The Defence of the Real (Core Cultural Theorists series)
By: Rex Butler
4.38
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
This book goes beyond Baudrillard′s writings on consumer objects, the Gulf War and America, to iden… read more
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21. Creation and Anarchy: The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
By: Giorgio Agamben
3.91
Format: 103 pages, Hardcover
Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the w… read more
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