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Michel Foucault: Madness and Civilization (Routledge Classics) (2006, Routledge)

Review of 'Madness and Civilization (Routledge Classics)' on 'Goodreads'

Very dense academic text but a fascinating historical study.
The way he quotes the bizarre theories 18th century doctors as statements of fact reflects on how we view science now and how we may come to view our current scientific understanding of the mind.

John Zerzan: Future Primitive (1994)

Future Primitive and Other Essays is a collection of essays by anarcho-primitivist philosopher John Zerzan …

Review of 'Future Primitive' on 'Goodreads'

The essence of primitivism: the naturalist fallacy and the causal fallacy + cherrypicking egalitarian non-agricultural societies.
If anything it is an ideology by and for despair.

David Graeber: Bullshit Jobs (Hardcover, 2018, Simon Schuster)

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber that argues the …

Review of 'Bullshit Jobs' on 'Goodreads'

An eye-opening study of the Sisyphean tasks imposed on blue- and white collar wageworkers, as a mechanism of control, due to incompetence of rulers and/or by grindset moralism. Graeber investigates the historic and contemporary anthropology of work-ethic and the politics of subjection behind it. His conclusion: workers of the world, stop working!