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Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection

by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

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Brandon said: " I have always approached anthropology with a bit of skepticism, for a host of historical (and likely also personal) reasons, but this book really was a beautifully written, accessible introduction to another way of conceiving of both the discipline a ...more "

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Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity

by José Esteban Muñoz

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“Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.”
― Michel Foucault, The Foucault Reader

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“Well I know Gyuri [the familiar diminutive of Georg or György], that human beings are unapproachable, that their souls are as far from each other as stars; only the remote radiance reaches to the other. I know that human beings are surrounded by dark, great seas, and thus they look across to one another, yearning but never reaching one another”
― Georg Lukács, Record of a Life: An Autobiographical Sketch

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“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.”
― Guy Debord

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