Speculative Aesthetics
By: Robin Mackay
3.59
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Documenting and expanding upon a ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION on the ramifications of Speculative Realism …
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1. The Politics of Aesthetics
By: Jacques Rancière , Gabriel Rockhill
3.92
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aestheti… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
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2. Perspective as Symbolic Form
By: Erwin Panofsky , None
4.10
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Erwin Panofsky’s Perspective as Symbolic Form is one of the great works of modern intellectual hist… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
"Reform or no reform, he never ceased to promote the interests of St. Denis and the Royal House of France with the same naive, and in his case not entirely unjustified, conviction of their identity wi…"-Erwin Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form
"... not only did perspective elevate art to a "science"... the subjective visual impression was indeed so far rationalized that this very impression could itself become the foundation for a solidly g…"-Erwin Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form
3. Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction)
By: Steve Goodman
3.78
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality--when sound help… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
4. On the Road
By: Jack Kerouac
3.61
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years… read more
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"We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301)."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
5. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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6. Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials
By: Reza Negarestani
3.92
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
At once a horror fiction, a work of speculative theology, an atlas of demonology, a political samiz… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
7. After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency
By: Alain Badiou , Quentin Meillassoux , Ray Brassier
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
It is no exaggeration to say that Quentin Meillassoux has opened up a new path in the history of ph… read more
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- philosophy
8. Ubik
By: Philip K. Dick , Manuel Espín , None
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto e… read more
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"Hey,"-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"One of these days,"-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed."-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"My father told me what it used to feel like, waiting in the dentist's office. Every time the nurse opened the door you thought, It's happening. The thing I've been afraid of all my life."-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
9. The Wild Boys
By: William S. Burroughs
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
The Wild Boysis a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to … read more
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10. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
11. House of Leaves
By: Mark Z. Danielewski
4.09
Format: 710 pages, Paperback
A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly w… read more
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"I must read. I must read. I must read."-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
"Do not entrust your future to the limits of your stride."-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
"Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space."-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
"Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila."-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
12. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an ess… read more
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13. Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
By: Timothy Morton
0.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catas… read more
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14. Near to the Wild Heart
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and … read more
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"Words are pebbles rolling in the river"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"What does it feel like to have a girl?"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She felt the phrase “demand her rights"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself."-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
15. 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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16. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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17. For a New Critique of Political Economy
By: Bernard Stiegler
3.95
Format: 473 pages, Paperback
The catastrophic economic, social and political crisis of our time calls for a new and original cri… read more
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18. The Political Unconscious
By: Fredric Jameson
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this ground-breaking and influential study Fredric Jameson explores the complex place and functi… read more
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19. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
By: Douglas R. Hofstadter
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal s… read more
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20. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
21. Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
By: Anna Kornbluh
4.08
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural style Contemporary cultural style boo… read more
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- philosophy
22. Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures
By: Mark Fisher
4.29
Format: 211 pages, None
Edited with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this idiosyncratic collection of lecture notes and t… read more
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23. Negative Space
By: B.R. Yeager
3.72
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more
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"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
24. Ccru: Writings 1997-2003
By: CCRU
4.08
Format: 666 pages, Kindle Edition
This first comprehensive collection of utterances from the Ccru-entity to appear in book form track… read more
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"Neo-China arrives from the future."-CCRU, Ccru: Writings 1997-2003
25. Cute Accelerationism
By: Amy Ireland
4.10
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
An impassioned philosophical celebration of the multiple dimensions of contemporary cuteness.Involu… read more
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- philosophy
26. Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction
By: Mark Fisher
4.10
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Donna Haraway's celebrated observation that "our machines are disturbingly lively, while we ourselv… read more
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- philosophy
"El poder ha completado el espectáculo al hacerlo interactivo; pero, al hacer esto, ha terminado con el espectáculo como tal, ha inaugurado un sistema nuevo, un sistema completamente inclusivo, que ob…"-Mark Fisher, Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction
27. Philosophy of New Music
By: Theodor W. Adorno
3.81
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A publishing event—a revealing new translation of Theodor Adorno's manifesto of musical radicalism?… read more
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"Музыка - враг судьбы... Лишь начиная с Вагнера, музыка стала подражать судьбе"-Theodor W. Adorno, Philosophy of New Music
"Important artworks constantly divulge new layers, they age, grow cold and die."-Theodor W. Adorno, Philosophy of New Music
"..трудности, запрещающие идею произведения, раскрываются не в раздумьях о них, а в тёмных недрах самих произведений"-Theodor W. Adorno, Philosophy of New Music
"Если индивидуальность критически относится к произведению, то и произведение критически относится к индивидуальности"-Theodor W. Adorno, Philosophy of New Music
28. Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape
By: Acid Horizon
3.76
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
Anti-Oculus is a psychedelic trip through the eyes of power, exploring avenues of escaping systems … read more
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29. Speculative Aesthetics
By: Robin Mackay
3.59
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Documenting and expanding upon a ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION on the ramifications of Speculative Realism … read more
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30. Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction, followed by "The Billiard Ball"
By: Quentin Meillassoux
3.79
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
In Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction, Quentin Meillassoux addresses the problem of chaos a… read more
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- philosophy
31. Cartographies of the Absolute
By: Alberto Toscano
3.60
Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition
Can capital be seen? Cartographies of the Absolute surveys the disparate answers to this question o… read more
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