12 best-selling philosophy books like Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation (Field Notes) by Jason E. Smith

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Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation (Field Notes)

By: Jason E. Smith

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life, while tech companies’ stock prices have…

If you liked the philosophy plot in Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation (Field Notes) by Jason E. Smith , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem

By: Joan Didion

4.19

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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2. The Flamethrowers

By: Rachel Kushner

3.94

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The year is 1975 and Reno--so-called because of the place of her birth--has come to New York intent… read more

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3. Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune

By: Kristin Ross

4.09

Format: None pages,

The Commune is back on the agenda. From Madrid to Istanbul, from Cairo to New York, people are reap… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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4. Eve's Hollywood

By: Eve Babitz

3.44

Format: 213 pages,

Journalist, party girl, bookworm, muse, artist: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had been a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. Critique of the Gotha Program

By: Karl Marx

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

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6. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
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7. Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics

By: Vladimir Lenin

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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8. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

3.78

Format: 377 pages,

Reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity--a land of Big Box… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction

9. Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century

By: Paul M. Sweezy , John Bellamy Foster , None

2.00

Format: None pages,

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10. The Plains

By: Gerald Murnane

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Fiction. Born in Melbourne, Austrailia, in 1939, Gerald Murnane recently retired as the senior lect… read more

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11. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

3.90

Format: 216 pages,

If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more

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12. History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics

By: György Lukács , Rodney Livingstone

5.00

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

This is the first time one of the most important of Lukacs' early theoretical writings, published i… read more

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13. What Is to Be Done?

By: Vladimir Lenin , Robert Service , Joe Fineberg , George H. Hanna

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In What Is to Be Done?, Lenin in 1901 argues that the working class will not spontaneously become p… read more

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"Ancak kendine güveni olmayanlar, güvenilmez insanlarla bile olsa geçici ittifaklara girmekten korkar ve hiçbir politik parti bu tür ittifaklar olmadan var olamaz."

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"Ya burjuva ideolojisi ya da sosyalist ideoloji. Bunun ortası yok (çünkü insanlık "üçüncü" bir ideoloji yaratmış değildir; ayrıca genel olarak sınıfsal çelişkilerle parçalanmış bir toplumda, hiçbir za…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies, and we have to advance almost constantly u…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"Rusya'da, hem 1870'li, hem de 1860'lı yıllarda (hatta 19. yüzyılın ilk yarısında) da grevler oldu ve bunlar makinelerin vb. "kendiliğinden" tahrip edilmesi vb. eşliğinde yaşanan grevlerdi. Bu "isyanl…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

14. Platform Capitalism

By: Nick Srnicek

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

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15. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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16. Heroes of the Fourth Turning

By: Will Arbery

4.03

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

It's nearing midnight in Wyoming, where four young conservatives have gathered at a backyard after-… read more

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  • politics
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17. The Years

By: Annie Ernaux

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

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18. 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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  • politics
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  • nonfiction
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19. Palestine +100

By: Basma Ghalayini

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like i… read more

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  • politics
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20. The Retreat from Class: A New 'True' Socialism

By: Ellen Meiksins Wood

4.34

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Exploring the connections between class, ideology and politicsIn this classic study, which won the … read more

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  • politics
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21. Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

By: M.E. O'Brien

4.15

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe … read more

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22. Lenin: A Study in the Unity of His Thought (The Verso Classics Series)

By: György Lukács

3.93

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

In Lukács’ elegantly crafted, concise and accessible account, Lenin emerges as the consummate diale… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Salvage Editions)

By: Kevin Ochieng Okoth

4.15

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

Salvaging a decolonised futureRed Africa makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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24. In the Tracks of Historical Materialism

By: Perry Anderson

3.78

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

How Marxist thought evolved in the seventies and early eighties. What have been the major change… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. Tuesday or September or the End

By: Hannah Black

4.27

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

“This intimate and funny and abstract fiction uses fable, and unreality, to flood a reader with the… read more

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26. Automation and the Future of Work

By: Aaron Benanav

3.89

Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition

Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • technology
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27. Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict (Field Notes)

By: Phil A. Neel

4.19

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Over the last forty years, the human landscape of the United States has been fundamentally transfor… read more

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"In Nevada I could feel the Long Crisis with a terrifying intimacy, as if it was some sort of uncanny, bodily contact— like the feeling you get camped out in the swirling, galaxy-littered darkness of …"

-Phil A. Neel, Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict (Field Notes)

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28. Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care

By: M.E. O'Brien

4.10

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

How do we take care of each other? Who raises us as children, is with us when we are ill, provides … read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation (Field Notes)

By: Jason E. Smith

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life, while tech companies’ stock prices have… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • technology
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30. Persistent Inequalities: Wage Disparity Under Capitalist Competition

By: Howard Botwinick

4.53

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

Up to now, most radical, as well as neoclassical, economists have assumed that significant wage dif… read more

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18 Best politics books like Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation (Field Notes) by Jason E. Smith

Transform Your Habits

Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune

Kristin Ross

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Critique of the Gotha Program

Karl Marx

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics

Vladimir Lenin

3.26

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Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

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The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation

Jacques Rancière , Kristin Ross

4.00

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Karl Marx

4.36

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Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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