Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy across Empire (ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise)
By: Mel Y. Chen
3.40
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In Intoxicated Mel Y. Chen explores the ongoing imperial relationship between race, sexuality, and …
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1. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
By: Jean-François Lyotard , Brian Massumi , Geoff Bennington
3.81
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This book explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and… read more
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"Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives."-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"... In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scientists, technicians, and instruments are purchased not to find truth, but to augment power."-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. But to the extent that science does not restrict itself to stating us…"-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"Postmodern science - by concerning itself with such things as undecidables, the limits of precise control, conflicts characterized by incomplete information, "fracta", catastrophes, and pragmatic par…"-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
2. Song of Solomon
By: Toni Morrison
4.14
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain… read more
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"Her passions were narrow but deep."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"He can't value you more than you value yourself."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!"-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
3. The Cancer Journals
By: Audre Lorde
4.43
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political … read more
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"Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"Power comes from moving into whatever I fear most that cannot be avoided."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
4. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
By: Christina Sharpe
3.39
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and… read more
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5. Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique
By: Roderick A. Ferguson
4.19
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
The sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of poverty, race, an… read more
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6. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
By: José Esteban Muñoz
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays… read more
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7. Cruel Optimism
By: Lauren Berlant
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flour… read more
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8. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more
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9. The Member of the Wedding
By: Carson McCullers
4.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Twelve-year-old Frankie cannot understand why everyone disapproves of her idea of going on her brot… read more
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10. 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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"[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
11. Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis
By: Katherine McKittrick
3.00
Format: 81 pages, Hardcover
The Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that… read more
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12. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
By: None , Lee Edelman
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory… read more
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13. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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14. The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study
By: J. Jack Halberstam , Fred Moten , Stefano Harney
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this series of essays Fred Moten and Stefano Harney draw on the theory and practice of the black… read more
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15. Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories
By: None
3.84
Format: None pages, Paperback
Time Bindsis a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the … read more
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16. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
17. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
18. The Vaster Wilds
By: Lauren Groff
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more
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"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
19. The Netanyahus
By: Joshua Cohen
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more
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20. The Death of Vivek Oji
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.13
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienti… read more
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"Love and guilt sometimes taste the same, you know"-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"Somewhere, you see, in the river of time, I am already alive."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"He smelled like grass and wind and clothes that had been dried in the sun."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
21. Girls Against God
By: Jenny Hval
3.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, gen… read more
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"No one asks me why I hate, no one uses that word, they call me grumpy, not even angry, but grumpy, six letters, something inconsequential and self-inflicted, something powerless, insignificant, somet…"-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God
"Maybe the only way an artist can escape capitalism and patriarchy today is to use art to disappear as an individual. The artists must completely wash away their person and self-expression, along with…"-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God
22. Necropolitics (Theory in Forms)
By: Achille Mbembe
4.20
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes… read more
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23. Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
By: Legacy Russell
3.81
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
Simone de Beauvoir said “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” The glitch announces: One i… read more
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24. The Inheritance
By: Matthew López
4.51
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
You have to wonder why there isn't a word in the English language for the fireworks that go off in … read more
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"Enamorarse es coger cita con el sufrimiento"-Matthew López, The Inheritance
"Leer no es suficiente, Leo. Tienes que poseer tus propios libros."-Matthew López, The Inheritance
"If we are to learn what we mean to each other, we must first examine what we mean to ourselves. And we must be fearless and honest in that attempt —"-Matthew López, The Inheritance
"A muchos de nosotros no nos han dado nunca un ejemplo sano de lo que significa ser homosexual. Lo que significa, por supuesto, que nunca nos han enseñado a serlo. A amar. A aceptar el amor."-Matthew López, The Inheritance
25. Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self
By: Stacy Alaimo
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
How do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface with human … read more
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"Dropping down dead, the birds, like Fe’s chemical, are heavier than air. Once Fe does comprehend her incomprehensible world, she realizes her own unintentional but harmful actions. She recollects how…"-Stacy Alaimo, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self
26. The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise)
By: Jasbir K. Puar
4.36
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, a… read more
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27. Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy across Empire (ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise)
By: Mel Y. Chen
3.40
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In Intoxicated Mel Y. Chen explores the ongoing imperial relationship between race, sexuality, and … read more
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28. Black Trans Feminism
By: Marquis Bey
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in w… read more
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29. Black and Blur (consent not to be a single being)
By: Fred Moten
4.40
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
In Black and Blur--the first volume in his sublime and compelling trilogy consent not to be a singl… read more
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30. The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment (ASTERISK)
By: Cameron Awkward-Rich
4.30
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In The Terrible We Cameron Awkward-Rich thinks with the bad feelings and mad habits of thought that… read more
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31. Brutalisme
By: Achille Mbembe
3.72
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Toutes les sphères de l’existence sont désormais pénétrées par le capital, et la mise en ordre des … read more
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