BooksList.Best
Search

Notes on Conceptualisms

6 best books like Notes on Conceptualisms (Vanessa Place): Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, Poetics, Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, An Essay on Liberation

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
AuthorJia Tolentino
ISBN0525510540
Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly in a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Jia writes...
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
AuthorAeschylus
ISBN0140443339
Alternate cover edition can be found here, here, here, here

In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos.

Moving from darkness to light, from...
Poetics
AuthorAristotle
ISBN0140446362
‘The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy’

In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently...
Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age
AuthorKenneth Goldsmith
ISBN0231149913
Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word processing, databasing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, inspire the reinvention of writing? The Internet and the digital environment present writers with new challenges and opportunities...
Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
AuthorCinzia Arruzza
ISBN1788734424
From three of the organisers of the International Women's Strike US: a manifesto for when 'leaning in' is not enough.

Recent years have seen the emergence of massive feminist mobilizations around the world, offering an alternative to the liberal feminism that has become the handmaiden of...
An Essay on Liberation
AuthorHerbert Marcuse
ISBN0807005959
In this concise and startling book, the author of One-Dimensional Man argues that the time for utopian speculation has come. Marcuse argues that the traditional conceptions of human freedom have been rendered obsolete by the development of advanced industrial society. Social theory can no longer...
About
Feedback
© BooksList.Best 2024