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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,772,553 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,713,266 ratings — published 1949
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 34,590 ratings — published 1961
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 31,145 ratings — published 1978
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 21,571 ratings — published 2025
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 6,106,856 ratings — published 1925
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,857 ratings — published 1966
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.06 — 7,931 ratings — published 2014
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 55,957 ratings — published 2007
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 207,847 ratings — published 1848
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 43,979 ratings — published 1781
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 5,938 ratings — published 1993
On Photography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 59,057 ratings — published 1973
Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 532,693 ratings — published 2022
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.59 — 36,411 ratings — published 1981
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 20,381 ratings — published 1952
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.51 — 31,703 ratings — published 2003
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 20,412 ratings — published 1989
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 28,429 ratings — published 2021
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 7,330 ratings — published 1998
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
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avg rating 3.99 — 3,738 ratings — published 1990
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 106,192 ratings — published 1942
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 24,326 ratings — published 1967
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
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avg rating 4.16 — 174,129 ratings — published 2018
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 32,506 ratings — published 1933
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 43,629 ratings — published 2009
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 108,646 ratings — published 2018
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 691,964 ratings — published 1886
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 5,293 ratings — published 2016
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,539,352 ratings — published 1985
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 5,581 ratings — published 1992
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 76,535 ratings — published 1995
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 41,125 ratings — published 1985
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 7,085,225 ratings — published 1960
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 5,090 ratings — published 1994
Mythologies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 17,596 ratings — published 1957
Writing Degree Zero (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 1,959 ratings — published 1953
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 79,996 ratings — published 1980
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 572,737 ratings — published 1899
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 452,215 ratings — published 1972
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.56 — 73,878 ratings — published 2025
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 2,331 ratings — published 2025
Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 2,105 ratings — published 2011
Authority: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 924 ratings — published 2025
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.77 — 5,979 ratings — published 2025
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,104 ratings — published 1981
Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.53 — 316 ratings — published
The Logic of Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 24 ratings — published 1957
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.66 — 24,415 ratings — published 2023
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 4,977 ratings — published 2021
“Lucie announced she planned to read to James from her work in progress, Secret Princess Lucie Is Rescued from Her Terrible Family. James listened with a carefully arranged look of interest, even though he was subjected to endless tales of Cruel Prince James and his many awful deeds.
“I think that Cruel Prince James has been somewhat boxed in by his name,” James offered at one point. Lucie informed him that she wasn’t looking for critique at this stage in the creative process.
“Secret Princess Lucie only wishes to be kind, but Cruel Prince James is driven to cruelty because he simply cannot stand to see Princess Lucie best him again and again, in every domain,” said Lucie.
“I’m going to go now,” said James.”
― Chain of Gold
“I think that Cruel Prince James has been somewhat boxed in by his name,” James offered at one point. Lucie informed him that she wasn’t looking for critique at this stage in the creative process.
“Secret Princess Lucie only wishes to be kind, but Cruel Prince James is driven to cruelty because he simply cannot stand to see Princess Lucie best him again and again, in every domain,” said Lucie.
“I’m going to go now,” said James.”
― Chain of Gold
“La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps.”
― The Society of the Spectacle
― The Society of the Spectacle
