abhagvasur

Aleks Bhagvasur

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14 books

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33 Lessons on Capital: Reading Marx Politically
Marx beyond Marx
We are the Crisis of Capital
Objectivity
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
The Wealth of Networks

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2 books

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Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

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3 books

Abolition

The End of Policing
The End of Policing

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16 books

Ai

Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Natural General Intelligence: How Understanding the Brain Can Help Us Build AI
The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence

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2 books

Ai Big Tech

Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

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157 books

Anarchism

The Dawn of Everything
Anarchy and the Law
Death in the Haymarket
The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement
From Democracy to Freedom (flagship essay)
The Law
Change the World Without Taking Power

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40 books

Anthropology

The Dawn of Everything
Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
The Immense Journey
The Dawn of Everything
Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

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7 books

Architecture

Lost Chicago
Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900-1933
Exotic Commodities: Modern Objects and Everyday Life in China
Louis Sullivan: Prophet of Modern Architecture
Chicago's Fine Arts Building: Music, Magic, and Murder
The Intimate City: Walking New York

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28 books

Art

Historia social de la literatura y el arte I: Desde la prehistoria hasta el barroco
The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance
Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
A Black Gaze
When I Left Home: My Story
Blues People
Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900-1933

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3 books

Authoritarianism

Bloodstained: One Hundred Years of Leninist Counterrevolution
Facing Reality
The Bolshevik Myth

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20 books

Big Tech

Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy
Road to Nowhere
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
What Computers Still Can't Do

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56 books

Biography

My Bondage and My Freedom
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Up from Slavery
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader
Returning to Reims

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16 books

Bio Sciences

Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Human Behavioral Biology
Virology
Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures
An Elusive Victorian: The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace
Inflamed

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6 books

Business

The Management Myth
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How the World Lost its Mind
The Contours of American History
Rebirth of American Industry

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67 books

Capitalism

Modern Monetary Theory: Key Insights, Leading Thinkers
Capitalism: A Global History
Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution
Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History
The Birth of Capitalism: A 21st Century Perspective
Capitalism and Its Critics
Kinyu shihonron

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50 books

Chicago

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago
The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago
Making the Second Ghetto
Death in the Haymarket
Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

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110 books

Classics

The Divine Comedy
The Song of Roland
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
The Saga of the Volsungs
The Decameron
The prologue to the Canterbury tales
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

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16 books

Climate

Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future
A Christmas Carol
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
Hellworld: The Human Species and the Planetary Factory
Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market
The Accumulation of Waste: A Political Economy of Systemic Destruction

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7 books

Conservatism

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Furious Minds
Conservatism: A Rediscovery
Tyranny, Inc.
Conservatism, Past and Present
Democratic Faith

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9 books

Critical Theory

Eclipse of Reason
Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda
The Emotional Logic of Capitalism: What Progressives Have Missed
Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation
Of Effacement: Blackness and Non-Being
The Cultural Politics of Emotion

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12 books

Cultural Studies

A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present
Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style
Suspensions of Perception
The Intellectuals and The Masses
Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style
The Culture of Time and Space, 1880–1918

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1 book

Cybernetics

The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How the World Lost its Mind

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9 books

Decolonization

The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York
Discourse on colonialism
Behind the Lianas:Exploration in French Guiana
Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
My Country, Africa

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12 books

Democracy

The Master's Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy
Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies
The Wealth of Networks
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
Governing the Commons
Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century
The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut

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2 books

Design

The Elements of Typographic Style