5 must-read art books like Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today by Claire Bishop

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Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today

By: Claire Bishop

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

How technology and the attention economy has impacted contemporary art The ways we encounter conte…

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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. 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. The Gay Science

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.11

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first pro… read more

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4. Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions

By: Fredric Jameson

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World and the so… read more

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5. 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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6. A Hacker Manifesto

By: McKenzie Wark

3.12

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

Explains how the demands of companies for protection of their patents and copyrights and the cultur… read more

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7. The Seagull

By: Anton Chekhov , Michael Frayn

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation. When … read more

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8. Near to the Wild Heart

By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero

4.04

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and … read more

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"She felt the phrase “demand her rights"

-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

"Words are pebbles rolling in the river"

-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

"What does it feel like to have a girl?"

-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

"She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself."

-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

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9. 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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  • nonfiction
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10. August Blue

By: Deborah Levy

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more

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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"

-Deborah Levy, August Blue

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11. Jawbone

By: Mónica Ojeda

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So ho… read more

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"Una bala que sale y luego regresa para darte en el corazón: eso es una hija."

-Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone

" A veces me gusta imaginar que el universo es el cadáver de Dios descomponiéndose , le dijo Annelise durante una tarde de clases extra. Imagine, Miss Clara, que fuéramos solo eso: la enorme y flotant…"

-Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone

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12. Anéantir

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.84

Format: 734 pages, Hardcover

Ce roman de Michel Houellebecq nous projette à la fin du second mandat du président à travers un ré… read more

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"La prise de vues donnait une étrange impression de neutralité."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Les chrétiens ont du mal en général, avec l’absurde, ça n’entre pas vraiment dans leurs catégories."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Certains lundis de la toute fin novembre, ou du début de décembre, surtout lorsqu'on est célibataire, on a la sensation d'être dans le couloir de la mort. Les vacances d'été sont depuis longtemps oub…"

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

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13. Exteriors

By: Annie Ernaux

3.57

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on… read more

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14. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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15. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

By: Antony Loewenstein

4.44

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more

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Cover of The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present by Byung-Chul Han

16. The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

By: Byung-Chul Han

4.05

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century cris… read more

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17. Shmutz

By: Felicia Berliner

3.52

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this witty, provocative, and unputdownable debut novel a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get m… read more

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18. Ordinary Notes

By: Christina Sharpe

4.55

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more

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19. Like Love: Essays and Conversations

By: Maggie Nelson

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
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20. The Last Sane Woman

By: Hannah Regel

3.67

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A beguiling debut novel about friendship and failure, written with unusual craft and spryness by an… read more

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21. Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today

By: Claire Bishop

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

How technology and the attention economy has impacted contemporary art The ways we encounter conte… read more

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4.11

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Leslie Jamison

3.86

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Becca Rothfeld

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