Surplus-Enjoyment - A Guide for the Non-Perplexed by Slavoj Zizek
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Zizek's guide to surplus (and why it's enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is surplus to our needs is by its very nature unsubstan ...Show more
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. A Penguin Classic First published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of Audre ...Show more
Gaia and Philosophy by Lynn Margulis; Anicka Yi (Illustrator); Dorion Sagan (Introduction by)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
In the 1970s, microbiologist Lynn Margulis and atmospheric chemist James Lovelock developed the Gaia theory. Embracing the circular logic of life and engineering systems, the Gaia theory states that Earth is a self-regulating complex system in which life interacts with and eventually becomes its own en ...Show more
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The world-famous #1 bestselling economist explains how capitalism has been usurped by a technologically enhanced form of feudalism. No one noticed when capitalism died. Perhaps we were too distracted by the implosion of global finance, or the rise of populism, or the demise of the planet - or all of th ...Show more
Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out by Slavoj Žižek
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst's couch. Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the medium of American film, taking his examples from over 100 years of cinema, from Charlie Chapli ...Show more
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction - With Introduction by Donna Haraway by Ursula K. Le Guin; Donna Haraway (Introduction by); Lee Bul (Illustrator)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Terra Ignota Ser.
In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination. Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techno-Heroic, the Carrier Bag Theory of human evolution proposes: ...Show more
Fragments Of An Anarchist Anthropology by GRAEBER DAVID
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy--everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for ideas about how society might be reorganized on a more egalitarian, less alienating basis. Anthropologists, terrified of being accused of romanti ...Show more
The Silent Woman - Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Granta Editions
Janet Malcolm's revelatory biography of the tumultuous union of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and the critical battle that overshadows their legacies.
The Expulsion of the Other - Society, Perception and Communication Today by Byung-Chul Han; Wieland Hoban (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone until there are no boundaries left. ...Show more
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United St ...Show more
The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: General Adult
What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The Weird and the Eerie are closely related but distinct modes, each possessing its own distinct properties. Both have ofte ...Show more
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
With the courage, honesty, and compassion that have made her one of America's most provocative authorities on modern culture, bell hooks takes on the interior lives of men and answers their most intimate questions about love. Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. In this groundbreaking book, ...Show more