Cruel Optimism
By: Lauren Berlant
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flour…
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1. The Cultural Politics of Emotion
By: Sara Ahmed
4.34
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In The Cultural Politics of the Emotions, Sara Ahmed develops a new methodology for reading "the em… read more
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- theory
- politics
- academic
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
2. Ugly Feelings
By: Sianne Ngai
4.20
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Envy, irritation, paranoia—in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these … read more
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- theory
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- psychology
3. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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- theory
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
4. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Toni Cade Bambara , Cherríe L. Moraga
4.52
Format: 261 pages, Paperback
This groundbreaking collection reflects an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color. … read more
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- politics
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"This Bridge Called My Back intends to reflect an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color in the U.S."-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
"I get angry with those in the women's movement and out of it who deal with class & color as if they defined politics and people."-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
"I keep wanting to repeat over and over and over again, the pain and shock of difference, the joy of commonness, the exhilaration of meeting through incredible odds against it."-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
"These women don't believe in the sanctity of the marriage bond, the inviolable privacy of the husband-wife unit. The cattiness is mixed with the information, tips. The misery is communal."-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
5. Death in Venice and Other Tales
By: Thomas Mann , Joachim Neugroschel
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
Featuring his world-famous masterpiece, "Death in Venice," this new collection of Nobel laureate Th… read more
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6. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
By: José Esteban Muñoz
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays… read more
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- theory
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- nonfiction
- academic
7. The Promise of Happiness
By: Sara Ahmed
3.92
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
The Promise of Happinessis a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks w… read more
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8. Cruel Optimism
By: Lauren Berlant
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flour… read more
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9. Other Voices, Other Rooms
By: Truman Capote
3.77
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Published when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a litera… read more
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"Only."-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
"Are the dead as lonesome as the living?"-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
"Все возможно, небо везде одно, только то, что под ним, разное."-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
"And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came."-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
10. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
By: Julia Kristeva , Leon S. Roudiez
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Kristeva is one of the leading voices in contemporary French criticism, on a par with such names a… 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. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
By: None , Lee Edelman
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory… read more
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13. Against Interpretation and Other Essays
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became … read more
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14. On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
By: Sara Ahmed
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers … read more
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15. 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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16. Manifesto Cyborg
By: Donna J. Haraway
3.26
Format: 32 pages,
Dopo aver tematizzato l'esistenza del cyborg, "creatura della realta sociale econtemporaneamente de… read more
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17. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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18. The Laugh of the Medusa
By: Hélène Cixous
4.09
Format: None pages,
Cixous is issuing her female readers an ultimatum of sorts: either they can read it and choose to s… read more
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19. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
20. 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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- theory
- philosophy
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"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
21. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
