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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis
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Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Mark Fisher
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault
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Orientalism
Edward W. Said
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Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Silvia Federici
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Michel Foucault
4.02 average rating, · 26.4k ratings
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The Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Benedict Anderson
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Mythologies
Roland Barthes
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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
Michael Parenti
4.41 average rating, · 10.9k ratings
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Simulacra and Simulation
Jean Baudrillard
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Michel Foucault
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The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
Michel Foucault
4.12 average rating, · 9.7k ratings
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Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Gilles Deleuze
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Friedrich Engels
4.14 average rating, · 8.4k ratings
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Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
Max Horkheimer
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Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
Byung-Chul Han
4.07 average rating, · 7.8k ratings
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A Brief History of Neoliberalism
David Harvey
4.13 average rating, · 7.5k 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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Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Fredric Jameson
4.00 average rating, · 7.6k ratings
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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Karl Marx
4.20 average rating, · 6.1k ratings
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Erving Goffman
4.04 average rating, · 6.8k ratings
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Culture and Imperialism
Edward W. Said
4.19 average rating, · 5.9k ratings
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