The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System (Perspectives)
By: Fredric Jameson
3.87
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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1. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
By: Jean-François Lyotard , Brian Massumi , Geoff Bennington
3.81
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This book explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
"Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives."-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"... In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scientists, technicians, and instruments are purchased not to find truth, but to augment power."-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. But to the extent that science does not restrict itself to stating us…"-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"Postmodern science - by concerning itself with such things as undecidables, the limits of precise control, conflicts characterized by incomplete information, "fracta", catastrophes, and pragmatic par…"-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
2. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
3. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
4. The Corrections
By: Jonathan Franzen
3.84
Format: 653 pages, Paperback
"The Corrections" is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century - a comic, tragic masterpiece… read more
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"To be so vigorous and healthy and yet so nothing. "-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"His problem consisted of a burning wish not to have done the things he'd done."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"The shame and disorder in his house were like the shame and disorder in his head."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
5. 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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- theory
- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
6. Marxism and Literature
By: Raymond Williams
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book extends the theme of Raymond Williams's earlier work in literary and cultural analysis. H… read more
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- theory
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- cultural studies
- literary criticism
7. 2666
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.21
Format: 1128 pages, Paperback
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more
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"Nothing is ever behind us."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Reading is never a waste of time."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Every hundred feet the world changes"-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
8. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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9. 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
10. Capital: The Process of Circulation of Capital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Ernest Mandel , David Fernbach
3.92
Format: 594 pages, Paperback
The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and… read more
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11. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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12. White Noise
By: Don DeLillo
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more
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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
13. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
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"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
14. Happening
By: Annie Ernaux
4.32
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more
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- nonfiction
"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
15. Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
By: Anna Kornbluh
4.08
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural style Contemporary cultural style boo… read more
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- art
- theory
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
16. Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
By: Troy Vettese
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this thrilling and capacious book, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the inertia of ca… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
"The aim for socialism is not Soviet-style Stakhanovite toil, but rien faire comme une bête."-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
"Nothing scares neoliberals more than radical science allied with social movements, but until such a union arises, they have little to fear."-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
"Despite our knowledge of what needs to be done, carbon emissions increase and mass extinctions continue relentlessly. Capital is at the helm, blindly steering the ship of fools towards ecological dis…"-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
"Environmentalists think that their political moderation will be rewarded by the powerful, who will allow them to play a small role in shaping the future. Yet the elite and their neoliberal brain trus…"-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
17. The Baudelaire Fractal
By: Lisa Robertson
3.94
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
One morning, the poet Hazel Brown wakes up in a strange hotel room to find that she's written the c… read more
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- philosophy
18. 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
- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
"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
19. Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital
By: Søren Mau
4.40
Format: None pages, ebook
[From Author's Summary] Despite a decade of crisis and social unrest, capitalism is in many ways … read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
20. The Limits of Critique
By: Rita Felski
4.01
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always w… read more
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- philosophy
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- literary criticism
"Education is not just about acquiring knowledge and skills but about being initiated into a certain sensibility."-Rita Felski, The Limits of Critique
"What if we refused to be railroaded into the false choice between the critical and the uncritical? How might argument and interpretation proceed if critique were no longer our ubiquitous watchword an…"-Rita Felski, The Limits of Critique
21. The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System (Perspectives)
By: Fredric Jameson
3.87
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"The Geopolitical Aesthetic is a dazzling . . . distillation and application of the theoretical sys… read more
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- theory
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- cultural studies
- literary criticism
