6 Best art books like Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism by Anna Kornbluh

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Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism

By: Anna Kornbluh

4.08

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural style Contemporary cultural style boo…

If you liked the art plot in Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism by Anna Kornbluh , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Politics of Aesthetics

By: Jacques Rancière , Gabriel Rockhill

3.92

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aestheti… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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2. Armadale

By: John Sutherland , Wilkie Collins

3.94

Format: 721 pages, Paperback

When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of… read more

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"A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult."

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!"

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other..."

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"Allan found his place for the second time, and fell headlong into the bottomless abyss of the English Law. “Page 280,"

-John Sutherland, Armadale

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3. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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4. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

By: Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Gunzelin Schmid Nörr , Edmund Jephcott

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dialectic of Enlightenmentis undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School o… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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5. 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
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction

6. Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets

By: Todd McGowan

3.99

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many p… read more

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7. Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life

By: Gillian Rose

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

A devastating confrontation with mortality leads Gillian Rose, one of England's most distinguished … read more

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8. Elements of the Philosophy of Right

By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Allen W. Wood , Raymond Geuss

4.19

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of th… read more

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9. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View

By: Ellen Meiksins Wood

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more

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10. Civilization and Its Discontents

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay

4.02

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more

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11. Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism

By: Anna Kornbluh

4.08

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural style Contemporary cultural style boo… read more

Similar categories in Anna Kornbluh's Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism book and Anna Kornbluh's Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism

  • cultural
  • art
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • economics
  • sociology
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12. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

By: Becca Rothfeld

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed debut author's glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favor of… read more

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  • cultural
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • philosophy
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13. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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14. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

By: Marc Lamont Hill

4.21

Format: 227 pages, Hardcover

A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

By: Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

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16. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

By: Bianca Bosker

4.16

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—thi… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
"Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures."

-Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

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17. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • art
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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18. The Baudelaire Fractal

By: Lisa Robertson

3.94

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

One morning, the poet Hazel Brown wakes up in a strange hotel room to find that she's written the c… read more

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  • philosophy
Cover of Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han

19. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

By: Byung-Chul Han

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
"İkinci Aydınlanma salt verilerle işleyen bilginin devrimidir."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"Geleceğimiz, üretimin ötesinde, 'kullanılmazı kullanmayı' becerebilecek durumda olup olmamamıza bağlıdır."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"People who fail in the neoliberal archievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"Günümüzün üretim tarzını niteleyen birilikte çalışan 'çokluk' (Multitude) değil, yalıtılmış, kendiyle kavga eden, kendini gönüllü olarak sömüren girişimcinin yalnızlığıdır (Solitude)."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

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20. 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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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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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?

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22. No Judgment: Essays

By: Lauren Oyler

3.30

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

From the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a groundbreaking collection of brand-new piece… read more

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  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
"I’m told I should smoke more weed, which I don’t like, or else “do something nice for yourself,"

-Lauren Oyler, No Judgment: Essays

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23. Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto

By: Kōhei Saitō

3.91

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary p… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
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24. Females

By: Andrea Long Chu

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

Everyone is female "When I say that everyone is female, I mean very simply that everyone wants to b… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Femaleness is a universal sex defined by self-negation, against which all politics, even feminist politics, rebels. Put more simply: Everyone is female, and everyone hates it."

-Andrea Long Chu, Females

"Gender is not just the misogynistic expectations a female internalizes but also the process of internalizing itself, the self's gentle suicide in the name of someone else's desires, someone else's na…"

-Andrea Long Chu, Females

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25. Like Love: Essays and Conversations

By: Maggie Nelson

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
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26. The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work

By: Jason Read

4.09

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

"Why do people fight for their exploitation as if it was liberation?" How Marx and Spinoza can expl… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • economics
Cover of Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature by Dan Sinykin

27. Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature

By: Dan Sinykin

3.96

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

In the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat wit… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
  • criticism
Cover of Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis by Alberto Toscano

28. Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis

By: Alberto Toscano

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

How do we understand the return of fascism today? In a world shaken by ecological, economic and po… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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29. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

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30. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

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"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

Cover of Inventions of A Present: The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization by Fredric Jameson

31. Inventions of A Present: The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization

By: Fredric Jameson

4.23

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

The giant of literary theory analyses the Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garc… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

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Jacques Rancière , Gabriel Rockhill

3.92

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Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Gunzelin Schmid Nörr , Edmund Jephcott

4.22

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3.24

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