6 must-read technology books like Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet by Geert Lovink

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Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet

By: Geert Lovink

3.22

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Una llamada a romper con el adictivo capitalismo de plataformas. Con independencia de la frecue…

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1. Ice

By: Anna Kavan

3.67

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusiv… read more

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"Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

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2. King Kong théorie

By: Virginie Despentes

4.01

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

J’écris de chez les moches, pour les moches, les frigides, les mal baisées, les imbaisables, toutes… read more

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"Le prostitute costituiscono l'unico proletariato la cui condizione commuove tanto la borghesia"

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Dans la morale judéo-chrétienne, mieux vaut être prise de force que prise pour une chienne, on nous l'a assez répété."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Il faut être crétin, ou simplement malhonnête, pour trouver une oppression insupportable et juger l'autre pleine de poésie."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Hace falta ser idiota, o asquerosamente deshonesto, para pensar que una forma de opresión es insoportable y juzgar que la otra está llena de poesía."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

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3. Sirene

By: Laura Pugno

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

In un futuro imprecisato ma spaventosamente vicino, gli uomini hanno costruito rifugi sotto l'ocean… read more

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4. I Love Dick

By: Chris Kraus , Eileen Myles , Joan Hawkins

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tears awa… read more

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5. The Medium is the Massage

By: Marshall McLuhan , Quentin Fiore , Jerome Agel

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Medium is the Massageis Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presenta… read more

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6. Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life

By: None

4.67

Format: 127 pages, Hardcover

A field manual to the technologies that are changing our lives at bewildering speed Everywhere we t… read more

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7. The Red and the Black

By: Stendhal , None

3.86

Format: 577 pages, Paperback

Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more

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"A good book is an event in my life."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

8. Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

By: Nick Srnicek , Alex Williams

3.46

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from work Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity … read more

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9. Canto yo y la montaña baila

By: Irene Solà

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Primero llegan la tormenta y el rayo y la muerte de Domènec, el campesino poeta. Luego, Dolceta, qu… read more

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"La eternidad, cosa ligera. Cosa diaria, cosa pequeña."

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

"Em diu coses boniques que no entenc però sí que entenc"

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

"Quan arribés a casa s'hauria de fer escalfar aigua per rentar-se el fred i la plutja"

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

"S'hi està bé aquí sota. S'hi està bé, en aquest bosc. En aquest tros de terra. En aquest tros de món."

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

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10. Quando muori resta a me

By: Zerocalcare

4.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Un viaggio con suo padre verso il paesino tra le Dolomiti da cui proviene la famiglia paterna sareb… read more

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11. Shuna's Journey

By: Hayao Miyazaki

4.34

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

From legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki comes a new manga classic about a prince on a quest for a go… read more

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12. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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  • technology
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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13. 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

"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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14. 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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15. The Creative Act: A Way of Being

By: Rick Rubin

4.04

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more

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"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

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16. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

By: Shoshana Zuboff

4.06

Format: 691 pages, Hardcover

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unpre… read more

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  • technology
"This is the existential contradiction of the second modernity that defines our conditions of existence: we want to exercise control over our own lives, but everywhere that control is thwarted. Indivi…"

-Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

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17. Chav Solidarity

By: D. Hunter

4.39

Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition

To the political left Hunter's people are the ignorant and the ill informed, to the victorious righ… read more

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"Οι δικοί μου άνθρωποι ξέρουν και να φροντίζουν μα και να πολεμούν. Κουβαλούν μέσα τους και σκληρότητα και τρυφερότητα, τους εκμεταλλεύονται και τους παραπετάνε, τους απορρίπτουν σαν απολίτιστα στουρν…"

-D. Hunter, Chav Solidarity

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18. Sabrina

By: Nick Drnaso

3.83

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

How many hours of sleep did you get last night? Rate your overall mood from 1 to 5, 1 being poor. R… read more

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"There you are."

-Nick Drnaso, Sabrina

"Just remember that crisis leads to opportunity."

-Nick Drnaso, Sabrina

"A lot of people are able to turn their grief into something positive. Maybe you’re destined for some kind of job in law enforcement."

-Nick Drnaso, Sabrina

"What if an American citizen needs to disappear, for reasons that might never be revealed to you, and you are involved, even peripherally, in the plot? Are you willing to participate in a crime like t…"

-Nick Drnaso, Sabrina

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19. Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

By: Sarah Jaffe

3.97

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a… read more

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"Freedom was there, the neoliberals argued, you just had to purchase it."

-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

"Neoliberalism encourages us to think that everything we want and need must be found with a price tag attached."

-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

"The majority of people who work in the arts will identify themselves as liberal to left wing, often radical left wing. This is going from the poorest artist to the highest paid curators in institutio…"

-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

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20. 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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21. Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto

By: Legacy Russell

3.81

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Simone de Beauvoir said “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” The glitch announces: One i… read more

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  • technology
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22. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

By: David Graeber

3.33

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everyt… read more

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"God and Man were inseparable companions. One day God said to Man: why don’t you go walk around on earth for a while so we can find some new topics for conversation? —beginning of a Malagasy folktale"

-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

"The toothless or peg-legged buccaneer hoisting a flag of defiance against the world, drinking and feasting to a stupor on stolen loot, fleeing at the first sign of serious opposition, leaving only ta…"

-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

"We would seem to be in the presence of a genuine historical anomaly: a political entity that presented itself to the outside world as a kingdom, organized around the charismatic figure of a brilliant…"

-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

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23. Il re delle volpi

By: Fiore Manni

3.85

Format: 492 pages, Hardcover

Il giorno del suo diciottesimo compleanno, Marian ha ben poco da festeggiare: la madre l'ha promess… read more

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24. New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

By: James Bridle

4.05

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

“New Dark Age is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about the Internet, whi… read more

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  • technology
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25. Capital Is Dead. Is This Something Worse?

By: McKenzie Wark

3.50

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

It’s not capitalism, it’s not neoliberalism—what if it’s something worse?In this radical and vision… read more

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  • technology
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26. CAPS LOCK

By: Ruben Pater

4.14

Format: 552 pages, Paperback

Capitalism could not exist without the coins, banknotes, documents, information graphics, interface… read more

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27. And: Phenomenology of the End (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)

By: Franco "Bifo" Berardi

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Franco "Bifo" Berardi's newest book analyzes the contemporary changes taking place in our aesthetic… read more

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28. Rave

By: Rainald Goetz

3.37

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

‘Meet girls. Take drugs. Listen to music.’ In  Rave , cult German novelist Rainald Goetz takes a he… read more

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29. The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class

By: Cynthia Cruz

3.80

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

What does it mean to be working-class in a middle-class world? Cynthia Cruz shows us how class affe… read more

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"In order to write, let alone think, about social class, we need to have a language for it. And yet we don’t. Or rather, everyday working-class people don’t."

-Cynthia Cruz, The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class

"Neoliberalism insists that if we work hard enough, we can earn as much money as anyone else. Of course, the concept of meritocracy is integral to neoliberalism and erases the reality of capital itsel…"

-Cynthia Cruz, The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class

"Proprio come assumere alcol o droghe oppure fumare, spendere soldi che non si hanno per un qualcosa che ci darà solo un giorno di evasione non ha un senso logico. Eppure spesso è l'unico mezzo di fug…"

-Cynthia Cruz, The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class

"To resist assimilation is to insist on our working-class origins, on carrying with us the lives and histories of our families, communities, histories, and culture. To give up pretending that one is n…"

-Cynthia Cruz, The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class

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30. Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet

By: Geert Lovink

3.22

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Una llamada a romper con el adictivo capitalismo de plataformas. Con independencia de la frecue… read more

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  • technology
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31. Skyland

By: Andrew Durbin

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

On the Greek island of Patmos, where St. John received the Book of Revelation, two writers find the… read more

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Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

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Mark Fisher

4.29

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McKenzie Wark

3.50

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3.97

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