11 best-selling politics books like Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher by Matt Colquhoun

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Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher

By: Matt Colquhoun

4.06

Format: 300 pages, None

Egress is the first book to consider the legacy and work of the writer, cultural critic and cult ac…

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1. Notes on Suicide

By: David Hume , Simon Critchley

3.74

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

Suicide is everywhere. It haunts history and current events. It haunts our own networks of friends … read more

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"El suicidio, bajo mi punto de vista, no constituye un crimen legal ni moral, y nadie debería considerarlo como tal."

-David Hume, Notes on Suicide

"Este mundo puede quitarnos todo, puede prohibirnos todo, pero no está en el poder de nadie impedir nuestra autoabolición."

-David Hume, Notes on Suicide

"Cioran escribe que «sólo se suicidan los optimistas, los optimistas que ya no logran serlo. Los demás, no teniendo ninguna razón para vivir, ¿por qué la tendrían para morir?»"

-David Hume, Notes on Suicide

"Quien no haya concebido jamás su propia anulación, quien no haya presentido el recurso a la cuerda, a la bala, al veneno o al mar, es un recluso envilecido o un gusano reptante sobre la carroña cósmi…"

-David Hume, Notes on Suicide

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2. Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.23

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

“I often come to walk in these hills,” I said to the soldier…he was compact and short, not much tal… read more

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  • politics
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"Aku ada buku, aku tak perlukan pakaian atau sepatu khusus untuk berjalan ke perbukitan."

-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

"Ini bukan pertama kali kita kalah, tapi kini pemimpin kita meraikannya seolah kita menang. (Tentang Perjanjian Damai Oslo antara Israel-Palestin)"

-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

"Religious practice in the Land of the Bible tends to encourage exclusivity and discrimination rather than love and magnanimity. There is no place like the Holy Land to make one cynical about religion."

-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

"Meskipun aku suka sekali pohon ru, kuakui mereka seperti penjajah. Merekalah bukti betapa manusia telah menelantarkan bukit ini pada kuasa alam. Warna mereka hijau gelap, tak seperti pohon zaitun yan…"

-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

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3. 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
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"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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4. Blue of Noon

By: Harry Mathews , Georges Bataille , Ken Hollings

3.86

Format: 568 pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, this twentieth-century erotic classic take… read more

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  • philosophy
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5. 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
  • politics
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6. 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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  • theory
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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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7. By Night in Chile

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more

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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

8. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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9. The Invention of Morel

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Suzanne Jill Levine , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Norah Borges de Torre , Ruth L.C. Simms

4.00

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn… read more

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"So I was dead! The thought delighted me."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"To be sure, nothing created by man is perfect."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"It is frightening to accept so much good fortune!"

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

10. 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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11. 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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12. Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors

By: Susan Sontag

3.28

Format: 5 pages,

In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweekas "one of the … read more

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13. Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts

By: Grafton Tanner

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In the age of global capitalism, vaporwave celebrates and undermines the electronic ghosts haunting… read more

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14. The Birth of Tragedy

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside

3.99

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more

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"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

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15. The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What to do About it

By: Mike Watson

3.69

Format: None pages, None

The Frankfurt School meets Fisher in this critique of capitalism incorporating memes, mental illnes… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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16. 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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17. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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18. K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

By: Mark Fisher

4.30

Format: 821 pages, Kindle Edition

A comprehensive collection of the writings of Mark Fisher (1968-2017), whose work defined critical … read more

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"Assimilation is sometimes the most effective kind of assassination."

-Mark Fisher, K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

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19. 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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"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

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20. Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher

By: Matt Colquhoun

4.06

Format: 300 pages, None

Egress is the first book to consider the legacy and work of the writer, cultural critic and cult ac… read more

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21. Fear of Black Consciousness

By: Lewis R. Gordon

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Lewis R. Gordon's Fear of Black Consciousness is a groundbreaking account of Black consciousness by… read more

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12 best-selling philosophy books like Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher by Matt Colquhoun

Transform Your Habits

Notes on Suicide

David Hume , Simon Critchley

3.74

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

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

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Blue of Noon

Harry Mathews , Georges Bataille , Ken Hollings

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

Reza Negarestani

3.92

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6 Top novella books like The Invention of Morel by Jorge Luis Borges, Suzanne Jill Levine, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Norah Borges de Torre, Ruth L.C. Simms

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The Invention of Morel

Jorge Luis Borges , Suzanne Jill Levine , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Norah Borges de Torre , Ruth L.C. Simms

4.00

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My Death

Lisa Tuttle

3.98

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The Membranes

Chi Ta-wei

3.98

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Nothing but the Rain

Naomi Salman

3.88

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