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	Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect 3.80 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Necroculture 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Science by David Tyfield (Editor), Rebecca Lave (Editor), Samuel Randalls (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sociology in Post-Normal Times 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Russia, Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism

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Humanimal: How Homo Sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature—A New Evolutionary History

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“The zombie is the absolute void present within capitalist everyday life.”
― Charles Thorpe, Necroculture

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“Having is estranged being.”
― Charles Thorpe

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“Love is paradigmatic of the truly human relationship, in that it is based entirely on the expression of what the individual is as a human being and the calling forth reciprocally of love in the other individual as a manifestation of their being.
If economic life was truly human, then love would be an aspect of production and exchange.”
― Charles Thorpe, Necroculture

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