The Shape of Things
By: Vilém Flusser
4.08
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
This book presents for the first time in English an array of essays on design by the seminal media …
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1. Synthetic Philosophy of Contemporary Mathematics
By: Fernando Zalamea , Zachary Luke Fraser
4.12
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
A panoramic survey of the vast spectrum of modern and contemporary mathematics and the new philosop… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
By: Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a… read more
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- philosophy
- czech literature
"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"Physical love is unthinkable without violence."-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"Only the most naive of questions are truly serious."-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man."-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
3. In Praise of Shadows
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more
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- architecture
- art
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
4. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
By: Sarah Bakewell
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
5. The Design of Everyday Things
By: Donald A. Norman
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
Anyone who designs anything to be used by humans -- from physical objects to computer programs to c… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- design
6. Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide
By: Piero , Christopher Kul-Want
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dubbed "The Elvis of Philosophy," Slavoj Zizeck is both a serious revolutionary and an absurdist pr… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
7. Nostalgia
By: Mircea Cărtărescu , Julian Semilian
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Mircea Cartarescu, born in 1956, is one of Romania's leading novelists and poets. This translation … read more
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8. The Aleph and Other Stories
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's mo… read more
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9. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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10. Design e comunicazione visiva: Contributo a una metodologia didattica
By: Bruno Munari
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
Che cosa e la grafica? Chi sono i designer? Come funziona la loro logica creativa? Quale uso fanno … read more
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11. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
By: Serhii Plokhy
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more
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12. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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13. We Have Never Been Modern
By: Bruno Latour , Catherine Porter
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever … read more
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14. The Medium is the Massage
By: Marshall McLuhan , Quentin Fiore , Jerome Agel
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Medium is the Massageis Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presenta… read more
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15. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
By: Alison Bechdel
4.08
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more
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- nonfiction
"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
16. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
17. Ficciones
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan
3.53
Format: 320 pages,
The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more
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18. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucidawas first published in 1979. Commenting on artists s… read more
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19. Regarding the Pain of Others
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more
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20. Infinite Jest
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' ha… read more
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22. Apology
By: Plato , James J. Helm
4.20
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully def… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Kötülük ölümden daha hızlı koşar."-Plato, Apology
"Loin de parler quand on me paie, et de me taire quand on me donne rien."-Plato, Apology
"As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy."-Plato, Apology
"Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you..."-Plato, Apology
23. Flights
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more
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"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
24. 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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"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
25. 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
26. The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more
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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
27. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.60
Format: 5 pages, ebook
In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human… read more
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- art
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
28. Intelligence and Spirit
By: Reza Negarestani
4.14
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
The history of philosophy conceived as the elaboration of a program for artificial general intellig… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"What makes Hegel's picture of geist a significant contribution not only to the history of functionalism and philosophy of mind but also, intriguingly, to the history of artificial general intelligenc…"-Reza Negarestani, Intelligence and Spirit
"In the wake of scientific rationality, mind turns into a wave of noetic deracination. This deracination of thought and its noetic drift is commensurate with what Plato calls the Form of Good as the F…"-Reza Negarestani, Intelligence and Spirit
"Functional analysis and the study of structural complexity should be approached as essentially conjoined programs. Unless both are in place, description and prescription in any form will be untenable…"-Reza Negarestani, Intelligence and Spirit
"It is therefore necessary to grasp the concept of artificial general intelligence not merely as a technoscientific idea, but more fundamentally as a concept belonging to a thought or form of intellig…"-Reza Negarestani, Intelligence and Spirit
29. 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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- architecture
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- design
"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)
30. The Shape of Things
By: Vilém Flusser
4.08
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
This book presents for the first time in English an array of essays on design by the seminal media … read more
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- architecture
- art
- czech literature
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- design
- essays
- cultural studies
31. Design as an Attitude
By: Alice Rawsthorn
4.05
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
A subjective field guide to design from renowned design critic and author Alice Rawsthorn Design… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- design
