The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia
By: Grafton Tanner
3.78
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
The Hours Have Lost Their Clock charts the rise of nostalgia in an era knocked out of time. Nost…
Want to Read $ 7.99"We’re always consuming a past that isn’t completely our own, that isn’t a perfect representation of what really happened and that may never fully satisfy us. The question is: which pasts are we consuming? And who benefits from the consumption?"-Grafton Tanner, The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia
"We’re always consuming a past that isn’t completely our own, that isn’t a perfect representation of what really happened and that may never fully satisfy us. The question is: which pasts are we consuming? And who benefits from the consumption?"-Grafton Tanner, The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia
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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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"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
2. 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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"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
3. Crash
By: J.G. Ballard
3.59
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scie… read more
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"After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"As I sat with her by the airport fence in her darkened car, her white breast in my hand lit by the ascending airliners, the shape and tenderness of her nipple seemed to rape my fingers."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at …"-J.G. Ballard, Crash
4. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
4.42
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
5. Ethics
By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None
4.10
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fu… read more
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"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body"-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
6. La sociedad de la transparencia
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.92
Format: 290 pages,
Ningun otro lema domina hoy el discurso publico tanto como la transparencia. Segun Han, quien la re… read more
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7. 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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8. To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
By: Erich Fromm
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less … read more
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9. Retrotopia
By: Zygmunt Bauman
3.83
Format: None pages, ebook
We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in so… read more
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11. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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12. The Eyes of the Overworld (The Dying Earth, #2)
By: Jack Vance
4.01
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
Scoundrel Cugel is sent far away, by a magician he has wronged, to retrieve magical lenses that rev… read more
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13. 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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14. Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud
By: Herbert Marcuse
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In this classic work, Herbert Marcuse takes as his starting point Freud's statement that civilizati… read more
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15. The Burnout Society
By: Byung-Chul Han
5.00
Format: 172 pages,
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more
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16. Transgender History
By: Susan Stryker
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender Historyt… read more
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17. Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories
By: Cho Nam-Joo
3.72
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Eight women. Eight stories. One reality. A woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without c… read more
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"W samochodzie Seunghun podziękował mi i kilka razy poprosił, żebym jak najczęściej przyjeżdżała do Geumju. Chciałam zapytać, czy jej dzieci, czyli jego mama oraz ciocie i wujkowie, często do niej wpa…"-Cho Nam-Joo, Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories
"– Ale rzecz w tym, że nie wyobrażam sobie świata bez babci. Nie liczę na cud. Po prostu chcę, żeby żyła. – Seunghun, ja chyba bym tego nie chciała na jej miejscu. Życie nie ma sensu, gdy nie można ni…"-Cho Nam-Joo, Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories
18. A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong
By: Becky Smethurst
4.38
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
Black Holes are the universe’s strangest and most fascinating objects — Dr. Becky explains all, and… read more
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19. The Agony of Eros
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.93
Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition
An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the … read more
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- theory
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"Philosophy is the translation of the Eros into Logos"-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros
"Such crises make it plain that capitalism - counter to widespread belief - is not a religion. Every religion operates with both debt (guilt) and relief (pardon). But capitalism only works with debt a…"-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros
20. There Is No Antimemetics Division
By: qntm
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, disc… read more
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"Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not you first day."-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"It’s not of reality, not of humanity. It is from a higher, worse place, and it is descending."-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"It began as an experiment in advanced propaganda. The objective was to cut through the physical conflict and find a way to rupture the ideological machine, to obliterate the idea of Nazism. After two…"-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"We don't have an Antimemetics Division," Clay says. "Yes, you do. We do." O5-8 says, "We have a Memetics Division, a Telekontainment Division, Fire Services, Ops-A, Ops-B, Personnel, D-personnel and …"-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
21. La crisis de la narración
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.90
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Las narraciones crean lazos. De ellas nace lo que nos conecta y vincula. De este modo, fundan comun… read more
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"Nuevas narraciones hacen posible una nueva percepción. La "nueva valoración de todos los valores" de la que hablaba Nietzsche abre una nueva perspectiva al mundo."-Byung-Chul Han, La crisis de la narración
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. La società senza dolore: Perché abbiamo bandito la sofferenza dalle nostre vite
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.90
Format: 96 pages, ebook
Il mondo contemporaneo è terrorizzato dalla sofferenza. La paura del dolore è così pervasiva e diff… read more
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24. Infocracia: La digitalización y la crisis de la democracia
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.11
Format: 67 pages, Kindle Edition
Die Digitalisierung schreitet unaufhaltsam voran. Wir sind benommen vom Kommunikations- und Informa… read more
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25. Estuve aquí y me acordé de nosotros: Una historia sobre turismo, trabajo y clase
By: Anna Pacheco
4.14
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Una brillante radiografía de las dinámicas laborales en el sector del turismo. El turismo ha cam… read more
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26. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
By: Andreas Malm
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more
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"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
27. No-cosas: Quiebras del mundo de hoy
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.85
Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition
«Hoy estamos en la transición de la era de las cosas a la era de las no-cosas. No son las cosas, si… read more
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28. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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29. The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity
By: Kwame Anthony Appiah
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year As seen on the Netflix series Explained From the b… read more
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30. 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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31. The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia
By: Grafton Tanner
3.78
Format: 319 pages, None
In The Hours Have Lost Their Clock, Grafton Tanner charts the rise of nostalgia in an era knocked o… read more
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- the united states of america
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"We’re always consuming a past that isn’t completely our own, that isn’t a perfect representation of what really happened and that may never fully satisfy us. The question is: which pasts are we consu…"-Grafton Tanner, The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia
