6 Best art books like The Aesthetics of Disappearance by Paul Virilio

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The Aesthetics of Disappearance

By: Paul Virilio

3.86

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a "juncture" in his th…

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Cover of Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson, Stanley Fish, Stefano Velotti

1. Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

By: Fredric Jameson , Stanley Fish , Stefano Velotti

4.00

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”pos… read more

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  • art
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • sociology
"Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and…"

-Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Cover of Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov, Mirra Ginsburg, Michail Bulgakov

2. Heart of a Dog

By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Mirra Ginsburg , Michail Bulgakov

4.10

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

This satirical novel tells the story of the surgical transformation of a dog into a man, and is an … read more

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"A dog's spirit dies hard."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away?"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"İki ayağını bir pabuca sokmayan herkes, her şey için zaman bulabilir."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

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3. Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

By: Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser

4.00

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step t… read more

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  • art
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"The balance of terror is the terror of balance."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"Forgetting extermination is part of extermination."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"But when everything is repressed, nothing is anymore."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"Nada llegó ni llegará ahora al término de su historia."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

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4. 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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  • art
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"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

Cover of The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque by Gilles Deleuze, Tom Conley

5. The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque

By: Gilles Deleuze , Tom Conley

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In The Fold, Gilles Deleuze argues that Leibniz’s writings constitute the grounding elements of a B… read more

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  • theory
  • art
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The city seems to be a labyrinth that can be ordered. The world is an infinite series of curvatures or inflections, and the entire world is enclosed in the soul from one point of view."

-Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque

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6. Orientalism

By: None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."

-None, Orientalism

"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."

-None, Orientalism

"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."

-None, Orientalism

"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."

-None, Orientalism

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7. Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more

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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

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8. On Television

By: Pierre Bourdieu , Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

"On Television" exposes the invisible mechanisms of manipulation and censorship that determine what… read more

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  • social science
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
Cover of The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin, Rodney Livingstone, Michael W. Jennings, Brigid Doherty, None, Howard Eiland, Thomas Y. Levin

9. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin

4.02

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more

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  • theory
  • art
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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10. Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

By: Henry David Thoreau

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays is a collection of some of Henry David Thoreau's most important… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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11. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault, Alan Sheridan, None, None, None

12. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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13. Wofür es sich zu leben lohnt: Elemente materialistischer Philosophie

By: Robert Pfaller

4.01

Format: 511 pages, Hardcover

Unsere Kultur hat sich den Zugang zu Glamour, Grosszugigkeit und Genuss versperrt. Wir vermeintlich… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

14. Strangers at Our Door

By: Zygmunt Bauman

4.21

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people… read more

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  • social science
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology

15. Platero y yo

By: Juan Ramón Jiménez , Antonio Frasconi

3.59

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Juan Ramon Jimenez escribe Platero y yo al volver a su pueblo natal, Moguer, despues de haber pasad… read more

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16. The Box Man

By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders

4.09

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative f… read more

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17. 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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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. The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis

By: Jacques Lacan

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

This volume is based on a year's seminar in which Dr. Lacan addressed a larger, less specialized au… read more

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20. Letter to His Father

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Eithne Wilkins , Ernst Kaiser , Willem van Toorn , Gerda Meijerink

3.53

Format: 349 pages,

This is the bilingual edition with German verso, English recto. read more

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21. La mala costumbre

By: Alana S. Portero

4.55

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Narrada desde una singular y desgarradora voz en primera persona, La mala costumbre recorre la adol… read more

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  • contemporary
"Cuando reímos con ganas no tenemos edad, lo hacemos igual durante toda nuestra vida y puede adivinarse en nuestra mueca la niña que fuimos o la anciana que seremos."

-Alana S. Portero, La mala costumbre

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22. The Shards

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.00

Format: 595 pages, Hardcover

A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more

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  • contemporary
"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

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23. Quelques mois dans ma vie: Octobre 2022 - Mars 2023

By: Michel Houellebecq

2.59

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"Pour la première fois dans ma vie je me sentis traité, absolument, comme l'objet d'un documentaire… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. Rhizom

By: Gilles Deleuze

4.28

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

„Ihr habt die Wahl zwischen einem letzten Abschied von der Psychoyse, einem rosa Panther, der Gesch… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Trascendencia, enfermedad propiamente europea."

-Gilles Deleuze, Rhizom

Cover of Radikalisierter Konservatismus: Eine Analyse by Natascha Strobl

25. Radikalisierter Konservatismus: Eine Analyse

By: Natascha Strobl

4.30

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Von der Krise der Sozialdemokratie ist allerorten die Rede. Doch auch viele traditionsreiche Mitte-… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
Cover of Prometheus's Remorse: From the Gift of Fire to Global Arson (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series) by Peter Sloterdijk

26. Prometheus's Remorse: From the Gift of Fire to Global Arson (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series)

By: Peter Sloterdijk

3.24

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

The stirring speech given by Peter Sloterdijk in Lucerne in October 2022. From time immemorial, hu… read more

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  • politics
Cover of The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture by Emanuele Coccia

27. The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture

By: Emanuele Coccia

3.88

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

We barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them; even … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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28. Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen 1: Über die Seele im Zeitalter der zweiten industriellen Revolution

By: Günther Anders

4.31

Format: 353 pages, None

In questo libro pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1956 Günther Anders muove dalla diagnosi della «v… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • technology
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29. The Aesthetics of Disappearance

By: Paul Virilio

3.86

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a "juncture" in his th… read more

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  • art
  • social science
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • contemporary
  • sociology
  • technology
Cover of Ästhetischer Kapitalismus by Gernot Böhme

30. Ästhetischer Kapitalismus

By: Gernot Böhme

3.37

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Aesthetic Economy is a theory of the recent development of capitalism in our national economies. Ba… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. Kafka: Um sein Leben schreiben

By: Rüdiger Safranski

3.65

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Zum 100. Rüdiger Safranski über Franz Kafka – Jahrhundertfigur der Weltliteratur„Ich habe kein lit… read more

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  • nonfiction

11 Top politics books like The Aesthetics of Disappearance by Paul Virilio

Transform Your Habits

Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Fredric Jameson , Stanley Fish , Stefano Velotti

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser

4.00

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The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

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None , Edward W. Said

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Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

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4.00

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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt

4.20

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None , Edward W. Said

4.12

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Praise of Folly

Erasmus , Betty Radice , A.H.T. Levi

4.43

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