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Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction …
Great dystopian fiction though its hard to believe in a totalitarian state so competent that it becomes immortal.
Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. …
Books like this demonstrate how utterly lacking basic history education is.
A must read for intersectionalists, the interdependence of different forms of oppression has never been so clear to me. This well sourced work clearly connects sexism, racism, colonialism, homophobia and capitalism from the late middle ages to the 20th century.
In this final episode of "The Earthsea Cycle", the widowed Tenar finds and nurses her aging friend, Sparrowhawk, a magician …
When the prince of Enlad declares the wizards have forgotten their spells, Ged sets out to test the ancient prophecies …
Arha's isolated existence as high priestess in the tombs of Atuan is jarred by a thief who seeks a special …
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a 1902 collection of anthropological essays by Russian …
A fundamental work on cooperation in nature and society and in my opinion a better entry point to anarchist philosophy than "The Conquest Of Bread". Although it is considerably less prosaic it forms a basis on which theory can be built, establishing that a society without authority has functioned and could do so again.
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, …
An insightful tale of moralism in a liberation movement and utopian tunnelvision in a hierarchical world, told in Le Guin's engaging style.
One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its oritinal publication …
This in depth analysis of Belgian and European neoliberalism describes, very convincingly, the dangers of the attention economy and politics as a competitive market.
It soberly contemplates the marketing behind right- and left-wing political parties: the hypocrisy of anti-intellectual campaigns constructed by teams of intellectuals, the malleable concept of "the common man", the incompatibility of national government and global capitalism, etc.
Main thesis: for-profit mass media have forced politics into a market format where presentation is more important than content, which is detrimental to democracy.
Overall a very informative and insightful read albeit a bit lacking in structure. Since it was published in 2007 it isn't entirely up to date but I believe the same principles still apply in more recent media.
Guns, Germs and Steel is a very researched hypothesis on how societies and technological differences between them evolved. It's main thesis states that environmental factors such as climate, available domesticable organisms, endemic diseases,.. etc. strongly determined our history whereas differences between ethnic groups had very little influence.
Diamond may have posed his theories with a bit too much confidence, giving the impression that this synthesis has any scientific consensus behind it. It is however based on cited evidence and debatable evidence is discussed as such.
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The …
