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Make Freud Jokes, Win Books
Win Verso’s Radical Thinker Set 10, containing titles from Joan Copjec, Catherine Clement, Octave Mannoni and a series of compiled speeches including Herbert Marcuse and Stokely Carmichael.
101 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in 2014
5 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in July
Book releases related to critical theory and philosophy from July, 2014.
Free Read: The Neoliberal Neurosis
An excerpt from “Jeffrey Sachs: The Strange Case of Dr. Shock and Mr. Aid,” by Japhy Wilson.
9 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in June
New releases from Michel Foucault, Henri Lefebvre and more!
Free Read: Bare Life and Money
An excerpt from “Willing Slaves of Capital” by Frederic Lordon.
Free Reads! 9 Free Noam Chomsky Books
Noam Chomsky -an activist, anarchist and linguist- is revered in some radical circles and reviled in others. The MIT professor writes extensively on US imperialism, politics and propaganda and has a knack for getting in fights with other critical theorists.
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The 10 Best Zizek Jokes to Get You Through Finals
Published in March, 2014, “Zizek’s Jokes” is a small book that claims to have captured the entirety of Slavoj Zizek’s published jokes in English, variations and all. Some of the jokes provide hilarious insight into Hegelian dialectics, Lacanian psychoanalysis or ideology. Others are just funny.
Review: Why are Animals Funny? The EDA Collective
“Death Drive,” “hauntology,” “in horror vacui,” and “uber-chutzpa” are just a few of the phrases that grace the pages of “Why are Animals Funny? Everday Analysis: Volume 1,” published in the UK by independent publisher, Zero Books. “Why are Animals Funny?” is written by a band of, well, what I call renegades. They, however, call themselves the Everyday Analysis Collective (EDA Collective), a group comprised mostly of journalists and academics out of England.