10 must-read nonfiction books like To Our Friends (Intervention #18) by Robert Hurley, Comité invisible

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To Our Friends (Intervention #18)

By: Robert Hurley , Comité invisible

4.37

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The Invisible Committee's The Coming Insurrectionwas a phenomenon, celebrated in some quarters and …

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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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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • france
  • nonfiction
"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 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
  • france
  • nonfiction
"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. Pedagogy of the Oppressed

By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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4. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

5. Tengo Miedo Torero

By: Pedro Lemebel

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

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6. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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7. Poesía completa

By: Alejandra Pizarnik , Ana María Becciu

2.74

Format: None pages,

Publicamos la obra poetica completa de una de las escritoras argentinas mas emblematicas de la segu… read more

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8. To Our Friends (Intervention #18)

By: Robert Hurley , Comité invisible

4.37

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The Invisible Committee's The Coming Insurrectionwas a phenomenon, celebrated in some quarters and … read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • activism

9. The Coming Insurrection

By: Comité invisible

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Thirty years of "crisis," mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want us to believe… read more

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10. Anarchy

By: Vernon Richards , Errico Malatesta

3.79

Format: 477 pages, Paperback

Many think 'anarchy' means confusion, disorder, and chaos, but Maletesta sets the record staight. E… read more

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11. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

By: Judith Butler

3.81

Format: None pages,

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more

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12. Cher connard

By: Virginie Despentes

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

C’est une suite de lettres entre amis qui se sauvent la vie. Dans ce roman épistolaire, Virginie De… read more

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  • france
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13. 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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14. The Conference of the Birds

By: Attar of Nishapur

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Considered by Rumi to be “the master” of Sufi mystic poetry, Attar is best known for this epic poem… read more

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  • philosophy
"El amor ama las cosas difíciles."

-Attar of Nishapur, The Conference of the Birds

"چون بلند و پست با هم یار شد آدمی اعجوبه ی اسرار شد"

-Attar of Nishapur, The Conference of the Birds

"Quando o amor me subjuga o coração, meu canto é como o suspiroso mar."

-Attar of Nishapur, The Conference of the Birds

"في قرارة كل شخص مــائة خنزير...فإما أن يسفك دم الخنزير، أو أن يعقد الزنار"

-Attar of Nishapur, The Conference of the Birds

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15. Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso

By: Brigitte Vasallo

4.27

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Este libro es una investigación histórica sobre la centralidad de la monogamia en nuestras construc… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The times of literature defy time because, for it, time is a minor invention."

-Brigitte Vasallo, Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso

"Books are born from guts, from the need of writing them, and are read in the same way, in the angst to read them, from a primite need."

-Brigitte Vasallo, Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso

"O poliamor não vem definido pelo número de relações, e sim pelo tipo de relação que têm os meta-amores entre si: se é de cooperação e cuidados mútuos, ou de confrontação e batalha pelo topo."

-Brigitte Vasallo, Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso

"À guerra pela patria vão os sujeitos subalternos em primeiro lugar, como nas guerras amorosas as mulheres e os sujeitos subalternizados pelo regime do desejo heterossexual são os primeiros a serem sa…"

-Brigitte Vasallo, Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso

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16. Armed Joy

By: Alfredo M. Bonanno

3.94

Format: 48 pages, Essay

Hurry comrade, shoot the policeman, the judge, the boss. Now, before a new police prevent you. H… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Non esiste il lavoro liberato."

-Alfredo M. Bonanno, Armed Joy

"Che follia l’amore per il lavoro! Che grande abilità scenica quella del capitale che ha saputo fare amare lo sfruttamento agli sfruttati, la corda agli impiccati e la catena agli schiavi."

-Alfredo M. Bonanno, Armed Joy

"Whatever kind of revolutionary would be one who claimed to destroy the model, the wrapping, the very foundations of the revolution? By attacking concepts such as quantification, class, project, model…"

-Alfredo M. Bonanno, Armed Joy

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17. Dysphoria Mundi

By: Paul B. Preciado

4.26

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

« Puisque mon désir de vivre en dehors des prescriptions normatives de la société binaire hétéro-pa… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Esas cajas que contienen mi biblioteca constituyen mi biografía. Hay muchas maneras de narrar una vida. Es posible decir, como suele hacerse, la fecha de nacimiento, la nacionalidad, el estado civil,…"

-Paul B. Preciado, Dysphoria Mundi

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18. Now (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series)

By: The Invisible Committee

3.95

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

A new political critique from the authors of The Coming Insurrection, calling for a “destituent pro… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • activism
"Communism is the real movement that destitutes the existing state of things."

-The Invisible Committee, Now (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series)

"Breaking is understandable, among other things, as an open debate in public on the question of property."

-The Invisible Committee, Now (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series)

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19. Un habitar más fuerte que la metrópoli

By: Consejo Nocturno

4.07

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

La sensación de vivir en un campo de concentración planetario tiene su máxima realidad en la metróp… read more

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20. ¡Abran paso al Eros alado!

By: Alejandra Kollontai

4.17

Format: None pages, None

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21. Human Strike and the Art of Creating Freedom

By: Claire Fontaine

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The first English-language publication of writings by the collective artist Claire Fontaine, addres… read more

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Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

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Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

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

Vladimir Lenin

3.26

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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

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