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Most Read This Week Tagged "Theory"

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
Il fascismo eterno
Theory & Practice
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Who’s Afraid of Gender?
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
The Crisis of Narration
La società senza dolore: Perché abbiamo bandito la sofferenza dalle nostre vite
Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts
No-cosas: Quiebras del mundo de hoy
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
The World After Gaza: A Short History
The Return of the Gods
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
A Vida Não É Útil
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
Eine Arbeiterin
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Against Progress (Žižek's Essays)
Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures
Hass: Von der Macht eines widerständigen Gefühls
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
El patriarcado del salario: Críticas feministas al marxismo
The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
Hässlichkeit
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Authority: Essays
The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth
Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy)
Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
Dysphoria Mundi
On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice
Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)
Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
On Giving Up
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind
Ordinary Notes
Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality
Like Love: Essays and Conversations
Washington Bullets
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
Math Without Numbers
The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
Heaven in Disorder
Complaint!
Space Crone
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet
A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective
Health Communism
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
Raving
In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene
Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization
Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism
Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology
On Fascism
Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Salvage Editions)
A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie
The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
Corpses, Fools and Monsters
A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum
Brown Neon
Foreverism (Theory Redux)
Feminisms: A Global History (Pelican Books)

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Madeleine L'Engle
“ It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth. ”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet
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“ I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself. ”
― Meryl Streep
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