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Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,438 ratings — published 1947
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,598 ratings — published 2009
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,142 ratings — published 1975
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,320 ratings — published 1967
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,696 ratings — published 1955
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,808 ratings — published 1964
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,530 ratings — published 1976
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,595 ratings — published 1957
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,743 ratings — published 1968
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,405 ratings — published 1989
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,381 ratings — published 1981
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,137 ratings — published 1978
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,902 ratings — published 1951
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,025 ratings — published 1972
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,602 ratings — published 1991
The Sublime Object of Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,384 ratings — published 1989
The Culture Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,911 ratings — published 1944
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,565 ratings — published 1961
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 25,191 ratings — published 1936
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,647 ratings — published 2017
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,366 ratings — published 1952
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 7,206 ratings — published 1980
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 207,767 ratings — published 1848
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,743 ratings — published 1966
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,930 ratings — published 1961
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.56 — 15,368 ratings — published 2004
Writing and Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,954 ratings — published 1967
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,936 ratings — published 1979
Necropolitics (Theory in Forms)
by (shelved 42 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,289 ratings — published 2016
Aesthetics and Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,346 ratings — published 1977
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,088 ratings — published 1994
Negative Dialectics (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,975 ratings — published 1966
Specters of Marx (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,888 ratings — published 1993
History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,747 ratings — published 1923
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,944 ratings — published 1949
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,398 ratings — published 1967
Escape from Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 16,705 ratings — published 1941
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,630 ratings — published 1984
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 13,515 ratings — published 1994
Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,236 ratings — published 2014
Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,352 ratings — published 1947
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,930 ratings — published 1983
The Political Unconscious (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,174 ratings — published 1981
The Burnout Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 34,601 ratings — published 2010
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,515 ratings — published 1969
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,219 ratings — published 1962
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,830 ratings — published 1993
Civilization and Its Discontents (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 3.80 — 45,866 ratings — published 1930
Image - Music - Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,830 ratings — published 1977
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as critical-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,946 ratings — published 1867
“The birth of the Node is not the end of the human but the end of a particular fantasy of the human, the fantasy of sovereignty, of exception, of standing outside and above.”
― After the Human: Artificial Intelligence, Subjectivity, and the Future of Knowledge
― After the Human: Artificial Intelligence, Subjectivity, and the Future of Knowledge
“Capitalism's final triumph is selling you the rope to hang it with, then marketing the noose as a limited-edition lifestyle accessory.”
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