6 best-selling sociology books like Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism) by Jean Baudrillard, Sheila Faria Glaser

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Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

By: Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser

4.00

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step t…

"The balance of terror is the terror of balance."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"The balance of terror is the terror of balance."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"Forgetting extermination is part of extermination."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"Forgetting extermination is part of extermination."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

If you liked the sociology plot in Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism) by Jean Baudrillard, Sheila Faria Glaser , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

By: Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser

4.00

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step t… read more

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"The balance of terror is the terror of balance."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"Forgetting extermination is part of extermination."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"But when everything is repressed, nothing is anymore."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"Nada llegó ni llegará ahora al término de su historia."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

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2. 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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"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

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3. 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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"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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4. To the Wedding

By: John Berger

4.03

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Booker Prize-winning author John Berger gives a novel both tragic and joyous, intelligent and eroti… read more

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5. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

By: Marshall McLuhan , Lewis H. Lapham

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

This reissue of Understanding Media marks the thirtieth anniversary (1964-1994) of Marshall McLuhan… read more

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  • sociology
Cover of The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin, Rodney Livingstone, Michael W. Jennings, Brigid Doherty, None, Howard Eiland, Thomas Y. Levin

6. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin

4.02

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more

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  • essays
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7. Erotism: Death and Sensuality

By: Georges Bataille , Mary Dalwood

4.16

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality--Georges Bataille pursues the… read more

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8. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more

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Cover of Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault, Richard Howard, José Teixeira Coelho Netto

9. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

By: Michel Foucault , Richard Howard , José Teixeira Coelho Netto

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Michel Foucault examines the ar… read more

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10. G.

By: John Berger

3.89

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

In this luminous novel -- winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize -- John Berger relates the s… read more

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11. 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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12. About Looking

By: John Berger

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence an… read more

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  • art
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  • essays

13. And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

By: John Berger

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

Booker Prize-winning author John Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry … read more

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14. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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15. 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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16. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari , Brian Massumi

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key… read more

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17. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an ess… read more

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18. Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

By: Hannah Arendt , Walter Benjamin , Harry Zohn

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds … read more

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19. Phenomenology of Spirit

By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , A.V. Miller , John Niemeyer Findlay

3.96

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Perhaps one of the most revolutionary works of philosophy ever presented, The Phenomenology of Spir… read more

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"The vanity of the contents"

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"The outcome is the same as the beginning only because the beginning is an end."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"por lo poco que el espíritu necesita para contentarse, puede medirse la extensión de lo que ha perdido."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

20. Mythologies

By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more

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21. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley

4.00

Format: 201 pages,

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more

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6 must-read politics books like Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism) by Jean Baudrillard, Sheila Faria Glaser

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Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

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The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

Jean-François Lyotard , Brian Massumi , Geoff Bennington

3.81

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The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

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A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume

3.94

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René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.76

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Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

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Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

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