Politics of Affect
By: Brian Massumi
4.03
Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition
'The capacity to affect and to be affected'. This simple definition opens a world of questions - by…
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1. The Cultural Politics of Emotion
By: Sara Ahmed
4.34
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In The Cultural Politics of the Emotions, Sara Ahmed develops a new methodology for reading "the em… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
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2. The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
By: Agatha Christie
4.03
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When Alice Asher is murdered in Andover, Hercule Poirot is already looking into the clues. Alphabet… read more
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"Drink up your wine,' ordered Poirot."-Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
"A man in drink can be like a ravening wolf."-Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
"Women were very queer. Unexpectedly cruel and unexpectedly kind."-Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
"I admit that the second murder in the book often cheers things up."-Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
3. Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History
By: Heather Love
4.21
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay cul… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- politics
- 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
- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
5. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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- nonfiction
6. Waiting for Godot
By: Samuel Beckett
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more
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- philosophy
7. The Queer Art of Failure
By: J. Jack Halberstam
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Queer Art of Failureis about finding alternatives--to conventional understandings of success in… read more
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- philosophy
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8. Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more
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"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Thoughts are divine."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
9. Event
By: Slavoj Žižek
3.50
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Probably the most famous living philosopher, Slavoj Zizek explores the concept of 'event', in the s… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
10. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- nonfiction
11. 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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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
12. 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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- politics
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13. Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life
By: Theodor W. Adorno , None
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections. A reflection… read more
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14. Epistemology of the Closet
By: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
3.54
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
What is at stake in male homo/heterosexual definition? Through readings of Melville, Nietzsche, Wil… read more
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15. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times
By: Jasbir K. Puar
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, na… read more
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16. Specters of Marx
By: Jacques Derrida , Peggy Kamuf , None
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Prodigiously influential, Jacques Derrida gave rise to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic conc… read more
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17. The Weird and the Eerie
By: Mark Fisher
3.69
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the mo… read more
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18. 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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19. Are Prisons Obsolete?
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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20. 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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21. The Burnout Society
By: Byung-Chul Han
5.00
Format: 172 pages,
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more
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22. 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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23. The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart
By: Ruth Behar
3.79
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Eloquently interweaving ethnography and memoir, award-winning anthropologist Ruth Behar offers a ne… read more
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24. Goodbye to Berlin
By: Christopher Isherwood
3.95
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not… read more
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25. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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26. 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
27. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts
By: Paul B. Preciado
4.26
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
28. Pure Colour
By: Sheila Heti
3.46
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. … read more
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- philosophy
"And what opens one heart opens many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"The body becomes a woman and it cannot turn back."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?"-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
29. Un apartamento en Urano
By: Paul B. Preciado
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Urano, el gigante helado, es el planeta más frío del sistema solar, y también un dios de la mitolog… read more
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"Travel translates the process of change, as if external movement were trying to articulate internal nomadism."-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano
"Não tenho alma e não tenho corpo. Sou o cosmos. Tenho um apartamento em Urano, o que certamente me coloca longe da maioria dos terráqueos, mas não tão longe que eles não possam viajar para cá. Nem qu…"-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano
"Al mismo tiempo, el colegio es la más brutal y fantoche de las escuelas de heterosexualidad. Aunque aparentemente asexual, el colegio potencia y fomenta el deseo heterosexual y la teatralización corp…"-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano
"Não pensei em férias. Pensei em esvaziar o arquivo, descarregar a memória. Em apagar. E reiniciar. Mas nada se apaga nem se reinicia. Nem mesmo as máquinas podem ser reiniciadas. Quem diz apagar ment…"-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano
30. 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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- politics
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"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
31. Politics of Affect
By: Brian Massumi
4.03
Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition
'The capacity to affect and to be affected'. This simple definition opens a world of questions - by… read more
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