A Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Humans: With a Theory of Meaning
9 best books like A Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Humans: With a Theory of Meaning (Jakob Johann von Uexküll): The Gay Science, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, The Posthuman, Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life, Unaccompanied, The Serpent, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto, Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence, The Cloven
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| ISBN | 0394719859 |
If you read Nietzsche while not in the midst of some variety of emo existential crisis, Nietzsche is hilarious and insightful. If, however, you choose to read Nietzsche in high school in order to be counter-culture, odds are good Nietzsche will temporarily turn you into a horrible, pompous ass. Nietzsche...
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
| Author | Mark Fisher |
| ISBN | 1846943175 |
After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological...
| Author | Rosi Braidotti |
| ISBN | 0745641571 |
The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally linked and technologically mediated...
Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life
| Author | Eva Jablonka |
| ISBN | 0262600692 |
Ideas about heredity and evolution are undergoing a revolutionary change. New findings in molecular biology challenge the gene-centered version of Darwinian theory according to which adaptation occurs only through natural selection of chance DNA variations. In Evolution in Four Dimensions,...
| Author | Javier Zamora |
| ISBN | 1556595115 |
This collection focuses author's personal experience as a child, fleeing the violence in his home, El Salvador (much of which violence was supported by the U.S.) and coming to the U.S. to reunite with his parents who left when he was even younger. There are poems that deal directly with the hardships...
| Author | Jane Gaskell |
| ISBN | 0708881378 |
In the lost world of prehistory, a girl is born. Is she a Goddess? Cija herself believes that she is. For 17 years her mother, the Dictatress, has kept her imprisoned in a tower. She releases her, with one object in view: to seduce Zerd, the snake-scaled "Dragon-General" of an occupying army, then stab...
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
| Author | Aaron Bastani |
| ISBN | 1786632624 |
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalism
In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury...
Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies - is, after 300 years, coming to an...
In the stunning conclusion to Brian Catling's Vorrh trilogy, the colonial city of Essenwald gives up all its secrets, as the ancient forest seeks to reclaim what has been taken from it. Those who have been enslaved shall be no longer, and two heroes once thought dead shall reemerge stronger than ever....
