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Simulacra and Simulation
Jean Baudrillard
4.00 average rating, · 17.2k ratings
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The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language
Michel Foucault
4.11 average rating, · 7.5k ratings
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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
Peter L. Berger
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The Practice of Everyday Life
Michel de Certeau
4.10 average rating, · 4k ratings
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Living a Feminist Life
Sara Ahmed
4.30 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
Mikhail Bakhtin
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The Sociological Imagination
C. Wright Mills
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The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
Marc Bloch
4.09 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
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The Queer Art of Failure
J. Jack Halberstam
4.03 average rating, · 3k ratings
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Necropolitics
Achille Mbembe
4.23 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
Judith Butler
4.21 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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Cinema 1: The Movement-Image
Gilles Deleuze
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Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
José Esteban Muñoz
4.29 average rating, · 2k ratings
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Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
Sara Ahmed
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
Jacques Lacan
4.11 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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Outline of a Theory of Practice
Pierre Bourdieu
4.06 average rating, · 1.7k ratings
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Cruel Optimism
Lauren Berlant
4.14 average rating, · 1.5k ratings
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The Promise of Happiness
Sara Ahmed
4.27 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
Paul Gilroy
4.03 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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Foucault
Gilles Deleuze
4.10 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?
Judith Butler
4.17 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
Yi-Fu Tuan
4.06 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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Giving an Account of Oneself
Judith Butler
4.18 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study
Stefano Harney
4.40 average rating, · 921 ratings
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