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I work in editorial at a small book publishing company. Degrees in law and political philosophy, interests in psychoanalysis, Christian theology, Sufi monism, philosophy, and post-liberalism.
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Matthew rated Submission: 5 stars
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
In a near-future France, François, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is …
Matthew rated Event, Perhaps: 4 stars
Matthew rated First Measures of the Coming Insurrection: 3 stars
Matthew rated CYBERNETIC HYPOTHESIS.: 4 stars
Matthew rated Deleuze and Guattari's Anti Oedipus: 5 stars
Matthew rated Deleuze and Guattari's a Thousand Plateaus: 4 stars
Matthew rated To Live and Think like Pigs: 3 stars
Gilles Chatelet, Alain Badiou: To Live and Think like Pigs (Paperback, english language, 2014, Sequence Press)
To Live and Think like Pigs by Gilles Chatelet, Alain Badiou (Urbanomic)
A startlingly prescient treatise on the cybernetic automation of society and a burlesque satire of its middle-class celebrants.
An uproarious …
Matthew rated Society Must Be Defended: 4 stars
Matthew rated World-Systems Analysis: 5 stars
World-Systems Analysis by Immanuel Wallerstein
In World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty years …
Matthew rated Annihilation: 5 stars
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (Southern Reach, #1)
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges …
Matthew rated Declaration: 5 stars
Declaration by Michael Hardt
"This is not a manifesto. Manifestos provide a glimpse of a world to come and also call into being the …