Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa
By: Charles Piot
3.78
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
At first glance, the remote villages of the Kabre people of northern Togo appear to have all the tr…
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1. Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)
By: Franco "Bifo" Berardi
3.91
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? In his most unsettling book to date,… read more
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"Money is our shelter, the only way we have to access life. But at the same time, if you want money you have to renounce life."-Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)
"Nazism is essentially based on the negation of the human nature of the other, while Fascism is based on the aggressive inclusion of the other, and the punishment and extermination of those who refuse…"-Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)
"L’identità è lo strumento percettivo e concettuale che ci dà una possibilità di conoscenza, ma noi scambiamo questa conoscenza per un ri-conoscimento. Cosicché siamo condotti a credere di sapere già,…"-Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)
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3. Giovanni’s Room
By: James Baldwin
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds h… read more
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"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
4. Life of Pi
By: Yann Martel
4.16
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist, Piscine … read more
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5. The Symposium
By: Plato , Christopher Gill
4.09
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more
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"The truth about eros is terrifying."-Plato, The Symposium
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"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."-Plato, The Symposium
"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"-Plato, The Symposium
6. From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea
By: Paige West
3.65
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In this vivid ethnography, Paige West tracks coffee as it moves from producers in Papua New Guinea … read more
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7. 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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"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
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"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
8. Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl
By: Adriana Petryna
3.98
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More… read more
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9. Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States
By: Audra Simpson
4.36
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and ant… read more
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10. Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa
By: Charles Piot
3.78
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
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11. Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation, and the Image-Event in Indonesia
By: Karen Strassler
4.22
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The end of authoritarian rule in 1998 ushered in an exhilarating but unsettled period of democratiz… read more
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