8 Best theory books like Breathing: Chaos and Poetry by Franco "Bifo" Berardi

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Breathing: Chaos and Poetry

By: Franco "Bifo" Berardi

4.07

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The increasingly chaotic rhythm of our respiration, and the sense of suffocation that grows everywh…

If you liked the theory plot in Breathing: Chaos and Poetry by Franco "Bifo" Berardi , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more

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"Life stand still here."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What a lark! What a plunge!"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"To love makes one solitary."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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2. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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3. 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

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts book and Franco "Bifo" Berardi's Breathing: Chaos and Poetry

  • nonfiction
  • essays

4. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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5. On the Genealogy of Morals

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

6. Against Interpretation and Other Essays

By: Susan Sontag

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Paperback

First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became … read more

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7. Água Viva

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more

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  • poetry
  • philosophy
"I always give names to things"

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

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8. Exilium

By: María Negroni

4.10

Format: 60 pages, Paperback

A book of poetry that retrieves the traces of exile. As Juan Gelman once wrote, "exile has no form … read more

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  • poetry
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9. Topology of Violence (Untimely Meditations Book 9)

By: Byung-Chul Han

3.86

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisi… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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10. 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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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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11. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

By: Byung-Chul Han

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
  • technology
"İkinci Aydınlanma salt verilerle işleyen bilginin devrimidir."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"Geleceğimiz, üretimin ötesinde, 'kullanılmazı kullanmayı' becerebilecek durumda olup olmamamıza bağlıdır."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"People who fail in the neoliberal archievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"Günümüzün üretim tarzını niteleyen birilikte çalışan 'çokluk' (Multitude) değil, yalıtılmış, kendiyle kavga eden, kendini gönüllü olarak sömüren girişimcinin yalnızlığıdır (Solitude)."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

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12. Civilizații

By: Olga Ştefan

4.02

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Pentru acest volum, Olga Ștefan a obținut Premiul „Tânărul Poet al anului 2020” în cadrul Galei Tin… read more

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  • poetry
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13. Carceral Capitalism

By: Jackie Wang

4.61

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, pre… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"In other words, their [police] survival and expansion becomes bound up with their capacity to use the police power and the court system to loot residents."

-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism

"The conversion of poverty into a personal moral failure was intimately tied to the construction of black Americans as disposable and subject to mass incarceration."

-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism

"As Iyko Day notes, Native dispossession occurs through the expropriation of land, while black dispossession is characterized by enslavement and bodily dispossession."

-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism

"The financialization of municipalities, the loss of key tax revenue streams, deindustrialization, and capital flight are the causes of the fiscal crisis—not reckless public spending."

-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism

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14. Dezrădăcinare

By: Sașa Zare

4.48

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

Dincolo de talentul de povestitoare desăvârșită al autoarei și de narațiunea hipnotizantă, volumul … read more

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15. Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being

By: Neil Theise

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave—from c… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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16. The Cybernetic Hypothesis

By: Tiqqun

4.03

Format: 100 pages, Unknown Binding

An early text from Tiqqun that views cybernetics as a fable of late capitalism, and offers tools fo… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • technology
"He [Karl Deutsch] recommended abandoning the old concept that power was sovereign, which had too long been the essence of politics. To govern would become a rational coordination of the flows of info…"

-Tiqqun, The Cybernetic Hypothesis

"There is the space of encounters which allow one to trace out an absolute limit to the analogy between the social world and the physical world. This is basically because two particles never encounter…"

-Tiqqun, The Cybernetic Hypothesis

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17. Breathing: Chaos and Poetry

By: Franco "Bifo" Berardi

4.07

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The increasingly chaotic rhythm of our respiration, and the sense of suffocation that grows everywh… read more

Similar categories in Franco "Bifo" Berardi's Breathing: Chaos and Poetry book and Franco "Bifo" Berardi's Breathing: Chaos and Poetry

  • poetry
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
  • technology
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18. Colectiva

By: Ioan Coroamă

3.94

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

Colectiva mi-a amintit de Boards of Canada și cred că o idee bună ar fi să citești textele lui Ioan… read more

Similar categories in Ioan Coroamă's Colectiva book and Franco "Bifo" Berardi's Breathing: Chaos and Poetry

  • poetry
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19. Curriculum. Refrene ale recuperării și memoriei

By: Mădălina Oprea

4.94

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Mădălina Oprea's Curriculum. Refrene ale recuperării și memoriei book and Franco "Bifo" Berardi's Breathing: Chaos and Poetry

  • poetry
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20. vom trece de Marte dar nu imediat

By: Șerban Mihalache

4.04

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

„Versurile lui Șerban Mihalache au ceva din frumusețea stranie și insondabilă pe care ne-o va dezvă… read more

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21. Sutta

By: Florentin Popa

3.93

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

O liniște nouă se așează peste vechile hărți ale poeziei odată cu acest volum, o înțelegere serenă,… read more

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4.13

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4.27

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3.91

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