The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

7 best books like The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Walter Benjamin): Simulacra and Simulation, Ash Wednesday, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Demanding the Impossible, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, The Proper Study of Mankind, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

Simulacra and Simulation

Author	Jean Baudrillard
ISBN	0472065211

The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern. Moving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that had concerned him earlier, Baudrillard developed in this book a theory of contemporary culture that relies...

Ash Wednesday

Author

T.S. Eliot

Ash Wednesday, T.S. Eliot
IV
Who walked between the violet and the violet
Who walked between
The various ranks of varied green
Going in white and blue, in Mary's colour,
Talking of trivial things
In ignorance and knowledge of eternal dolour
Who moved among the others...

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...

Demanding the Impossible

Author	Slavoj Žižek
ISBN	0745672280

Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj Zizek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures Zizek at his irrepressible best, elucidating such topics as the uprisings of the Arab Spring, the global financial crisis, populism in Latin America,...

Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

Author	Theodor W. Adorno
ISBN	0804736332

Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the Preface,...

The Proper Study of Mankind

Author	Isaiah Berlin
ISBN	0374527172

Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of our time and one of its finest writers. The Proper Study of Mankind brings together his most celebrated writing: here the reader will find Berlin's famous essay on Tolstoy, "The Hedgehog and the Fox"; his penetrating portraits of contemporaries from...

Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

Author

Laboria Cuboniks

The Good:
--Feminist critique and (often neglected) embrace/control of high-technology is desperately needed, given the alarming centralization of technological reach and power under capitalism.

The Bad:
--The delivery needs a complete overhaul if a wider audience is desired....