The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume II: The History of Eroticism and Volume III: Sovereignty
10 best books like The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume II: The History of Eroticism and Volume III: Sovereignty (Georges Bataille): Pale Fire, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Course in General Linguistics, On the Genealogy of Morals, Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987-2007, A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari, Where the Stress Falls: Essays, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 0141185260 |
The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous?...
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
| Author | Michel Foucault |
| ISBN | 0679752552 |
This book begins with a bang – in fact, a series of bangs. That is the point, you see. We need to be shocked about what is, after all, our relatively recent past. We too easily forget that there was a time when ‘people like us’ actually span back in history for nearly as far as the mind could imagine. Now,...
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
| Author | Gilles Deleuze |
| ISBN | 0816612250 |
A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, social scientists, philosophers, and other interested in the problems of contemporary Western culture. "An important text in the rethinking of sexuality...
Course in General Linguistics
| Author | Ferdinand de Saussure |
| ISBN | 0812690230 |
The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now known as Structuralism, has since been...
On the Genealogy of Morals
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the central values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of...
Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987-2007
Level 1, or world-space, is an anthropomorphically scaled, predominantly vision-configured, massively multi-slotted reality system that is obsolescing very rapidly. Garbage time is running out.
Can what is playing you make it to Level 2?
Fanged Noumena assembles for the first...
| Author | Brian Massumi |
| ISBN | 0262631431 |
I was under the impression that this was a quite inscrutable, singular work of little benefit to understanding the complexities of Capitalism & Schizophrenia - not at all. The line between citation/explanation of the subject texts and original extrapolation/explanation (or the Deleuze-Guattari/Massumi...
| Author | Susan Sontag |
| ISBN | 0099289415 |
Susan Sontag has said that her earliest idea of what a writer should be was "someone who is interested in everything." Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, the now classic Against Interpretation, our most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from...
| Author | Guy Debord |
| ISBN | 1859841694 |
A must read. Although it enhances your understanding to read
Society of the Spectacle
first, it's not absolutely necessary. SotS is one of the most politically astute grand visions of the social order ever written. Revolutionary. Profound. Enlightening. (And admittedly somewhat difficult in...
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
| Author | Christina Sharpe |
| ISBN | 0822362945 |
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"—the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead,...
