7 must-read theory books like The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics by Yuk Hui

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The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics

By: Yuk Hui

4.01

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Heidegger’s critique of modern technology and its relation to metaphysics has been widely accepted …

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1. The Civil War in France

By: Karl Marx

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

A reprint of the 1934 'enlarged edition', a volume that added newly translated material to the titl… read more

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  • history
  • theory
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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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2. Walden

By: Henry David Thoreau

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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3. Critique of the Gotha Program

By: Karl Marx

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

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  • theory
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4. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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5. Hadji Murad

By: Leo Tolstoy

4.11

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Ch… read more

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6. Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s

By: Sheila Fitzpatrick

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on moder… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

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8. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

By: Yukio Mishima , Ivan Morris

4.48

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting… read more

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9. En el enjambre

By: Byung-Chul Han , None

3.76

Format: 360 pages,

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10. The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness

By: Donna J. Haraway

3.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The Companion Species Manifestois about the implosion of nature and culture in the joint lives of d… read more

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11. 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)

12. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

By: Silvia Federici

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more

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13. La piedra de la locura

By: Benjamín Labatut

3.48

Format: 71 pages, Paperback

Una fascinante reflexión sobre el caos y la locura a partir de teorías científicas, expresiones lit… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
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14. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

By: David Graeber

4.20

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • anthropology
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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15. California. La fine del sogno

By: Francesco Costa

4.13

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

Quando noi italiani pensiamo alla nazione che vorremmo diventare, cosa ci viene in mente? Probab… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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16. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

By: Kate Crawford

3.99

Format: 288 pages, ebook

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality,… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • technology
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17. 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
  • 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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18. Cromorama: Come il colore ha cambiato il nostro sguardo

By: Riccardo Falcinelli

4.47

Format: 472 pages, Paperback

Perché le matite gialle vendono di più delle altre? Perché Flaubert veste di blu Emma Bovary? Perch… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • design
"Il colore è spesso un'idea o un'aspettativa. Ovvero certe tinte diventano tutt'uno con gli oggetti che le indossano al punto che è difficile pensarli altrimenti."

-Riccardo Falcinelli, Cromorama: Come il colore ha cambiato il nostro sguardo

"Il pensiero critico può iniziare da fatti piccolissimi. Anche dal colore. Magari insegnando ai bambini che il verde si può fare mischiando il blu con il giallo. Si può. Funziona. È una delle grandi c…"

-Riccardo Falcinelli, Cromorama: Come il colore ha cambiato il nostro sguardo

"Là fuori in sostanza esiste l'energia elettromagnetica e la fisica può studiarla, esistono precise lunghezze d'onda e la fisica può misurarle, ma non c'è il colore, che esiste solo quando un vivente …"

-Riccardo Falcinelli, Cromorama: Come il colore ha cambiato il nostro sguardo

"Quasi sempre tendiamo a guardare il Rinascimento dal punto di vista degli artisti, eppure, se ci sforziamo di pensarci committenti, ci accorgiamo che il rapporto tra i Medici e Botticelli è molto sim…"

-Riccardo Falcinelli, Cromorama: Come il colore ha cambiato il nostro sguardo

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19. The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (Software Studies)

By: Benjamin H. Bratton

3.94

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • technology
"Yes, you are a battery."

-Benjamin H. Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (Software Studies)

"Tomorrow, may I have your yesterday?"

-Benjamin H. Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (Software Studies)

"Platforms don't look like how they work and don't work like how they look."

-Benjamin H. Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (Software Studies)

"Airports are not simulations of cities; rather cities are simulations of airports."

-Benjamin H. Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (Software Studies)

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20. The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics

By: Yuk Hui

4.01

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Heidegger’s critique of modern technology and its relation to metaphysics has been widely accepted … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • china
  • anthropology
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21. El intruso

By: Jean-Luc Nancy

4.14

Format: 51 pages, Paperback

"El intruso no es otro que yo mismo y el hombre mismo. No otro que el mismo que no termina de alter… read more

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