14 Top politics books like The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia by Grafton Tanner

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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…

"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

If you liked the politics plot in The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia by Grafton Tanner , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"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

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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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
"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

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3. Empire of Signs

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature,… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"The text does not gloss the images, which do not illustrate the text."

-Roland Barthes, Empire of Signs

"In this manner , we are told, the system of the imaginary is spread circularly, by detours and returns the length of an empty subject."

-Roland Barthes, Empire of Signs

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4. 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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  • theory
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"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

"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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5. 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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  • theory
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
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6. 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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  • theory
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays

7. 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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8. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology

9. The Shadow Out of Time

By: H.P. Lovecraft , S.T. Joshi , David E. Schultz

3.95

Format: 620 pages, Paperback

"The Shadow out of Time" is H. P. Lovecraft's last major story, written in a four-month period from… read more

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10. En el enjambre

By: Byung-Chul Han , None

3.76

Format: 360 pages,

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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 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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13. 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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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
"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

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14. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
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15. 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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  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
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16. 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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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
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17. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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18. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"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

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19. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • philosophy
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  • essays
  • sociology
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20. 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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  • essays
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21. 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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"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

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Transform Your Habits

Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Fredric Jameson , Stanley Fish , Stefano Velotti

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Retrotopia

Zygmunt Bauman

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures

Mark Fisher

4.29

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Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds

Zygmunt Bauman

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Il femminismo non è un brand

Jennifer Guerra

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Il silenzio è cosa viva: L'arte della meditazione

Chandra Livia Candiani

4.22

Transform Your Habits

La via della narrazione

Alessandro Baricco

3.67

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