11 best-selling politics books like Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures by Mark Fisher

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Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures

By: Mark Fisher

4.29

Format: 211 pages, None

Edited with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this idiosyncratic collection of lecture notes and t…

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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
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
"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
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
"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. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
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4. 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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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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5. The Sublime Object of Ideology

By: Slavoj Žižek , Ernesto Laclau

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In this provocative and original work, Slavoj Zizek takes a look at the question of human agency in… read more

Similar categories in Slavoj Žižek's The Sublime Object of Ideology book and Mark Fisher's Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures

  • psychoanalysis
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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6. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more

Similar categories in David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years book and Mark Fisher's Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures

  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction

7. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

By: Herbert Marcuse

4.70

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in… read more

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8. 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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9. A Brief History of Neoliberalism

By: David Harvey

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guid… read more

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10. Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987-2007

By: Ray Brassier , Robin Mackay , Nick Land

4.02

Format: 982 pages, Paperback

Level 1, or world-space, is an anthropomorphically scaled, predominantly vision-configured, massive… read more

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11. Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud

By: Herbert Marcuse

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this classic work, Herbert Marcuse takes as his starting point Freud's statement that civilizati… read more

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12. Hegel: A Very Short Introduction

By: Peter Singer

4.19

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Hegel is regarded as one of the most influential figures on modern political and intellectual devel… read more

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13. 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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14. Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

By: Nick Srnicek , Alex Williams

3.46

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from work Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity … read more

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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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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
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"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. Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures

By: Mark Fisher

4.29

Format: 211 pages, None

Edited with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this idiosyncratic collection of lecture notes and t… read more

Similar categories in Mark Fisher's Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures book and Mark Fisher's Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures

  • psychoanalysis
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • economics
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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17. 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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  • politics
  • philosophy
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  • essays
  • 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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18. Heaven in Disorder

By: Slavoj Žižek

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: o… read more

Similar categories in Slavoj Žižek's Heaven in Disorder book and Mark Fisher's Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures

  • psychoanalysis
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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19. Too Late to Awaken What Lies Ahead When There Is No Future?

By: Slavoj Žižek

3.93

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The most provocative philosopher of our times returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis … read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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20. Foucault in California [A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death]

By: Simeon Wade

3.45

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

In The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking “nost… read more

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  • audiobook
"Actually, Deleuze wouldn't strike you as being all that unusual,' Foucault replied. 'He appears completely conventional. He is married and has two children."

-Simeon Wade, Foucault in California [A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death]

"Another book out of Mexico which interests me is Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society. Do you know it?' I inquired. 'Yes, and I too have a high opinion of the thesis of the book. Illich is a man with on…"

-Simeon Wade, Foucault in California [A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death]

"You have to be lost as a young man,' Michel replied, 'You are not really trying unless you are lost. That is a good sign. I was lost as a young man too.' 'Should I take chances with my life?' Jake co…"

-Simeon Wade, Foucault in California [A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death]

"What was it like for you before the gay movement?' the young gay student asked. 'You might not believe this.' Foucault replied, 'but I actually liked the scene before the gay liberation, when everyth…"

-Simeon Wade, Foucault in California [A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death]

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21. After Work: The Politics of Free Time

By: Helen Hester

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A timely manifesto for a feminist post-work politics Does it ever feel like you have no free tim… read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
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  • economics
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5 Top audiobook books like Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures by Mark Fisher

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Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

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Mark Fisher

4.29

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Slavoj Žižek

3.79

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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Michael Parenti

4.41

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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

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