Ghosts of My Life
Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
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This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen. Fisher searches for the traces of these lost futures in the work of David Peace, John Le Carré, Christopher Nolan, Joy Division, Burial, and many others.
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- Narrado por: Jamie Renell
- Duración: 17 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate the mainstream assimilators who borrowed innovations, diluted their impact, and disguised their sources. In Music: A Subversive History, Ted Gioia reclaims the story of music for the riffraff, insurgents, and provocateurs. Gioia tells a 4,000-year history of music as a global source of power, change, and upheaval.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Squeezing cherry-picked facts into a simplistic narrative
- De Erik A. Ritland en 11-24-20
De: Ted Gioia
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Jay-Z
- Made in America
- De: Michael Eric Dyson, Pharrell - foreword
- Narrado por: Michael Eric Dyson, Nick Cannon
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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Jay-Z: Made in America is the fruit of Michael Eric Dyson’s decade of teaching the work of one of the greatest poets this nation has produced, as gifted a wordsmith as Walt Whitman, Robert Frost and Rita Dove. But as a rapper, he’s sometimes not given the credit he deserves for just how great an artist he’s been for so long.
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3 out of 5 stars
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No Surprises for Fans
- De Tim & Ty en 12-22-19
De: Michael Eric Dyson, y otros
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Sontag
- Her Life and Work
- De: Benjamin Moser
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 22 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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No writer is as emblematic of the American 20th century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Cloying voice
- De Suzanne en 11-02-19
De: Benjamin Moser
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The Art of the Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher - translator
- Narrado por: Graeme Malcolm
- Duración: 4 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on Hermann Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka's novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafka's bureaucratized universe. Kundera's discussion of his own work includes his views on the role of historical events in fiction, the meaning of action, and the creation of character in the postpsychological novel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative and Inspiring
- De Mo en 11-27-21
De: Milan Kundera, y otros
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The Secret Life of the American Musical
- How Broadway Shows Are Built
- De: Jack Viertel
- Narrado por: David Pittu
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical. It often begins in actors and reaches its passionate zenith when it comes time for love, marriage, and children, who will start the cycle all over again. Americans love musicals. Americans invented musicals. Americans perfected musicals. But what, exactly, is a musical?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great review lacked music
- De joseph f mcgovern en 10-14-18
De: Jack Viertel
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Naked at the Albert Hall
- The Inside Story of Singing
- De: Tracey Thorn
- Narrado por: Tracey Thorn
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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In her bestselling autobiography, Bedsit Disco Queen, Tracey Thorn recalled the highs and lows of a 30-year career in pop music. But with the touring, recording and extraordinary anecdotes, there wasn't time for an in-depth look at what she actually did for all those years: sing. She sang with warmth and emotional honesty, sometimes while battling acute stage fright.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De Jane Sheedy en 01-11-17
De: Tracey Thorn
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On Freedom
- Four Songs of Care and Constraint
- De: Maggie Nelson
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept's complexities in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just great
- De Kristi Strong en 12-14-21
De: Maggie Nelson
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You Say Potato: A Book About Accents
- De: Ben Crystal, David Crystal
- Narrado por: David Crystal, Ben Crystal, Jane Savage, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Some people say 'sconn' while others say 'schown'. He says 'bath' while she says 'bahth'. You say 'potayto'. I say 'potahto'. And - wait a second, no one says 'potahto'. No one's ever said 'potahto'. Have they? From reconstructing Shakespeare's accent to the rise and fall of received pronunciation, actor Ben Crystal and his linguist father, David, travel the world in search of the stories of spoken English.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wish there were more native recordings.
- De Matt Dobler en 07-01-16
De: Ben Crystal, y otros
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High Weirdness
- Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies
- De: Erik Davis
- Narrado por: Erik Davis
- Duración: 20 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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A study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson, High Weirdness charts the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality that arose from the American counterculture of the 1970s. These three authors changed the way millions of readers thought, dreamed, and experienced reality - but how did their writings reflect, as well as shape, the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America?
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5 out of 5 stars
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High Weirdness
- De Amazon Customer en 09-17-20
De: Erik Davis
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Art Is Life
- Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
- De: Jerry Saltz
- Narrado por: Jerry Saltz, Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 16 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life. Since the 1990s he has been an indispensable cultural voice: Witty and provocative, he has attracted contemporary listeners to fine art as few critics have.
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1 out of 5 stars
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WRONG for audio program
- De Karen Lehrer en 11-07-22
De: Jerry Saltz
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Letters to a Young Artist
- De: Anna Deavere Smith
- Narrado por: Anna Deavere Smith
- Duración: 4 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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From "the most exciting individual in American theater" ( Newsweek), here is Anna Deavere Smith's brass-tacks advice to aspiring artists of all stripes. In the manner of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Deavere Smith mentors her young artist over a period of five years, sharing her hard-won wisdom about the challenges and rewards of the artistic life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great advice for artists of any age.
- De S. Barker en 10-30-17
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The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock
- An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense
- De: Edward White
- Narrado por: Qarie Marshall
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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Author Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon - what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core, and how its legacy continues to shape our cultural world. Illuminating different aspects of Hitchcock's life and work, the book's 12 chapters reveal something fundamental about the man he was and the mythological creature he has become, presenting not just the life Hitchcock lived, but also the various versions of himself that he projected and those projected on his behalf.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Good History of Hitch
- De aaron en 07-31-21
De: Edward White
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Pure Invention
- How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World
- De: Matt Alt
- Narrado por: Matt Alt
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 242
Japan is the forge of the world’s fantasies: karaoke and the Walkman, manga and anime, Pac-Man and Pokémon, online imageboards and emojis. But as Japan media veteran Matt Alt proves in this brilliant investigation, these novelties did more than entertain. They paved the way for our perplexing modern lives.
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3 out of 5 stars
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great book ruined by ending
- De Grant Holder en 06-07-22
De: Matt Alt
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The Nineties
- A Book
- De: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrado por: Chuck Klosterman, Dion Graham
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,930
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,676
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It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. Landlines fell to cell phones, the internet exploded, and pop culture accelerated without the aid of technology that remembered everything. It was the last era with a real mainstream to either identify with or oppose. The ’90s brought about a revolution in the human condition, and a shift in consciousness, that we’re still struggling to understand.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Very White Middle-class Take On The Nineties
- De Umar Lee en 02-10-22
De: Chuck Klosterman
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Cultural Amnesia
- Notes in the Margin of My Time
- De: Clive James
- Narrado por: Clive James
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
- Versión resumida
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 104
From Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Charlie Chaplin, this varied and unfailingly absorbing book is both story and history, both public memoir and personal record - and provides an essential field-guide to the vast movements of taste, intellect, politics and delusion that helped to prepare the times we live in now.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very enjoyable and well narrated
- De Larbi en 05-18-08
De: Clive James
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Postcapitalist Desire
- The Final Lectures
- De: Mark Fisher
- Narrado por: Tom Lawrence
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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Beginning with that most fundamental of questions - ''Do we really want what we say we want?'' - Fisher explores the relationship between desire and capitalism, and wonders what new forms of desire we might still excavate from the past, present, and future. From the emergence and failure of the counterculture in the 1970s to the continued development of his left-accelerationist line of thinking, this volume charts a tragically interrupted course for thinking about the raising of a new kind of consciousness, and the cultural and political implications of doing so.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing ideas from a man who was too brilliant
- De Jim en 08-11-21
De: Mark Fisher
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The Weird and the Eerie
- De: Mark Fisher
- Narrado por: Tom Lawrence
- Duración: 4 h y 27 m
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What exactly are the weird and the eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The weird and the eerie are closely related but distinct modes, each possessing its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with horror, yet this emphasis overlooks the aching fascination that such texts can exercise. The weird and the eerie both fundamentally concern the outside and the unknown, which are not intrinsically horrifying, even if they are always unsettling.
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3 out of 5 stars
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clear but mispronounced
- De SLV en 01-02-20
De: Mark Fisher
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Capitalist Realism
- Is There No Alternative?
- De: Mark Fisher
- Narrado por: Tom Lawrence
- Duración: 4 h y 10 m
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It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system–a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mind-blowing
- De John Erlandsen en 10-04-24
De: Mark Fisher
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K-Punk: Politics
- De: Mark Fisher
- Narrado por: Tom Lawrence
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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This selection of essays from K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016) brings together the best of Fisher's political writing. K-Punk: Politics shows Fisher at his most combative and incendiary, wrangling with the contradictions and complexities of capitalism and setting out the way forward into a more just, fair, and equal future for all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A blog about setting yourself on fire in front of the imf
- De Travis Cramer en 07-26-22
De: Mark Fisher
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Anti-Oedipus
- Capitalism and Schizophrenia
- De: Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Michel Foucault - preface, y otros
- Narrado por: Jon Orsini
- Duración: 21 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and "a work of heretical madness" by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set forth the following theory: Western society's innate herd instinct has allowed the government, the media, and even the principles of economics to take advantage of each person's unwillingness to be cut off from the group. What's more, those who suffer from mental disorders may not be insane, but could be individuals in the purest sense, because they are by nature isolated from society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not read in usual way,but Praxis that works on you
- De Anonymous User en 12-27-23
De: Gilles Deleuze, y otros
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The Instant Millionaire
- A Tale of Wisdom and Wealth
- De: Mark Fisher
- Narrado por: Marc Allen
- Duración: 2 h y 24 m
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Darva Conger, 34, had a plan to become an Instant Millionaire by marrying real estate investor Rick Rockwell, 42, on TV last week. Now that her plan has backfired and an annulment is eminent, may we suggest some titles for Darva to get back in the dating saddle?
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2 out of 5 stars
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Comforting Psycho-babble for the Struggling
- De Tim en 08-28-03
De: Mark Fisher
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Postcapitalist Desire
- The Final Lectures
- De: Mark Fisher
- Narrado por: Tom Lawrence
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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Beginning with that most fundamental of questions - ''Do we really want what we say we want?'' - Fisher explores the relationship between desire and capitalism, and wonders what new forms of desire we might still excavate from the past, present, and future. From the emergence and failure of the counterculture in the 1970s to the continued development of his left-accelerationist line of thinking, this volume charts a tragically interrupted course for thinking about the raising of a new kind of consciousness, and the cultural and political implications of doing so.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing ideas from a man who was too brilliant
- De Jim en 08-11-21
De: Mark Fisher
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The Weird and the Eerie
- De: Mark Fisher
- Narrado por: Tom Lawrence
- Duración: 4 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 87
What exactly are the weird and the eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The weird and the eerie are closely related but distinct modes, each possessing its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with horror, yet this emphasis overlooks the aching fascination that such texts can exercise. The weird and the eerie both fundamentally concern the outside and the unknown, which are not intrinsically horrifying, even if they are always unsettling.
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3 out of 5 stars
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clear but mispronounced
- De SLV en 01-02-20
De: Mark Fisher
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Capitalist Realism
- Is There No Alternative?
- De: Mark Fisher
- Narrado por: Tom Lawrence
- Duración: 4 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system–a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mind-blowing
- De John Erlandsen en 10-04-24
De: Mark Fisher
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K-Punk: Politics
- De: Mark Fisher
- Narrado por: Tom Lawrence
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
This selection of essays from K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016) brings together the best of Fisher's political writing. K-Punk: Politics shows Fisher at his most combative and incendiary, wrangling with the contradictions and complexities of capitalism and setting out the way forward into a more just, fair, and equal future for all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A blog about setting yourself on fire in front of the imf
- De Travis Cramer en 07-26-22
De: Mark Fisher
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Anti-Oedipus
- Capitalism and Schizophrenia
- De: Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Michel Foucault - preface, y otros
- Narrado por: Jon Orsini
- Duración: 21 h y 26 m
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When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and "a work of heretical madness" by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set forth the following theory: Western society's innate herd instinct has allowed the government, the media, and even the principles of economics to take advantage of each person's unwillingness to be cut off from the group. What's more, those who suffer from mental disorders may not be insane, but could be individuals in the purest sense, because they are by nature isolated from society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not read in usual way,but Praxis that works on you
- De Anonymous User en 12-27-23
De: Gilles Deleuze, y otros
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The Instant Millionaire
- A Tale of Wisdom and Wealth
- De: Mark Fisher
- Narrado por: Marc Allen
- Duración: 2 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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Darva Conger, 34, had a plan to become an Instant Millionaire by marrying real estate investor Rick Rockwell, 42, on TV last week. Now that her plan has backfired and an annulment is eminent, may we suggest some titles for Darva to get back in the dating saddle?
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2 out of 5 stars
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Comforting Psycho-babble for the Struggling
- De Tim en 08-28-03
De: Mark Fisher
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K-Punk: Music
- De: Mark Fisher
- Narrado por: Tom Lawrence
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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This selection of essays from K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016) brings together the best of Fisher's political writing. In K-Punk: Music, Fisher seamlessly blends political theory with music analysis, discussing the impact of neoliberalism and related political ideologies on the music industry and major music events such as Glastonbury.
De: Mark Fisher
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Psychopolitics
- Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
- De: Byung-Chul Han
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 2 h y 49 m
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Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Jargon and ambiguity are not honest intellectualism
- De carsonwelker en 10-18-24
De: Byung-Chul Han
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
- De: Slavoj Žižek
- Narrado por: Chris MacDonnell
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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Slavoj Žižek's first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. In a thrilling tour de force that made his name, he explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Listen
- De Anonymous User en 04-17-21
De: Slavoj Žižek
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Necropolitics
- De: Achille Mbembe, Steven Corcoran - translator
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 8 h y 31 m
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In Necropolitics, Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror as well as by a resurgence of racist, fascist, and nationalist forces determined to exclude and kill. He outlines how democracy has begun to embrace its dark side - what he calls its "nocturnal body" - which is based on the desires, fears, affects, relations, and violence that drove colonialism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Forget critical race theory
- De Ian en 01-08-23
De: Achille Mbembe, y otros
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Against Platforms
- Surviving Digital Utopia (Activist Citizens Library)
- De: Mike Pepi
- Narrado por: Tim Andres Pabon
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
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At the turn of the millennium, digital technologies seemed to have immense promise for transforming our society. With these powerful new tools, the thinking went, we would be free to live our best lives, connected to our communities in ways full of infinite potential. A quarter of a century on, this form of utopianism seems like a cruel mirage. So what happened? In Against Platforms, technologist and creator Mike Pepi lays out an explanation of what went wrong—and a manifesto for putting it right.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Debunks common techno-utopian shibboleths
- De north3001 en 03-01-25
De: Mike Pepi
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Hauntology
- De: Merlin Coverley
- Narrado por: Alan Turton
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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Ghosts and spectres, the eerie and the occult. Why is contemporary culture so preoccupied by the supernatural, so captivated by the revenants of an earlier age, so haunted? The concept of Hauntology has evolved since first emerging in the 1990s and has now entered the cultural mainstream as a shorthand for our new-found obsession with the recent past. But where does this term come from and what exactly does it mean?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book and narrator — except for the accents
- De Meedo en 05-17-23
De: Merlin Coverley
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In the Dust of This Planet
- Horror of Philosophy, Volume 1
- De: Eugene Thacker
- Narrado por: Robert Slade
- Duración: 7 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. In this book, Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world. To confront this idea is to confront the limit of our ability to understand the world in which we live - a central motif of the horror genre. In the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy and horror.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting jumble, ending on a hopeful note
- De Jeffrey D en 01-03-21
De: Eugene Thacker
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The Archaeology of Knowledge
- And the Discourse on Language
- De: Michel Foucault
- Narrado por: James Gillies
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge—are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think. The Archaeology of Knowledge begins at the level of things aid and moves quickly to illuminate the connections between knowledge, language, and action in a style at once profound and personal. A summing up of Foucault's own methodological assumptions, this book is also a first step toward a genealogy of the way we live now.
De: Michel Foucault
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Jacques Lacan
- The Basics
- De: Calum Neill
- Narrado por: Dennis Kleinman
- Duración: 4 h y 22 m
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Jacques Lacan: The Basics provides a clear and succinct introduction to the work of Jacques Lacan, one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century.
De: Calum Neill
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Mythologies
- The Complete Edition, in a New Translation
- De: Roland Barthes, Annette Lavers - translator, Richard Howard - translator
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 112
When Roland Barthes's groundbreaking Mythologies first appeared in English in 1972, it was immediately recognized as one of the most significant works in French theory - yet nearly half of the essays from the original work were missing. This new edition of Mythologies is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic. It includes the brilliant "Astrology", never published in English before.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun and engaging
- De Chris Hall en 01-08-19
De: Roland Barthes, y otros
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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
- A Contrivance of Horror
- De: Thomas Ligotti
- Narrado por: Jon Padgett
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 7
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His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier. Drawing on philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and other fields of study, Ligotti takes the penetrating lens of his imagination and turns it on his audience, causing them to grapple with the brutal reality that they are living a meaningless nightmare, and anyone who feels otherwise is simply acting out an optimistic fallacy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Paints a Fascinating Picture
- De Adrian Matthys en 03-07-25
De: Thomas Ligotti
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Technofeudalism
- What Killed Capitalism
- De: Yanis Varoufakis
- Narrado por: Yanis Varoufakis
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Technofeudalism says Yanis Varoufakis, is the new power that is reshaping our lives and the world, and is the greatest current threat to the liberal individual, to our efforts to avert climate catastrophe—and to democracy itself. It also lies behind the new geopolitical tensions, especially the New Cold War between the United States and China. Drawing on stories from Greek myth and pop culture, from Homer to Mad Men, Varoufakis explains this revolutionary transformation: how it enslaves our minds, how it rewrites the rules of global power, and, ultimately, what it will take overthrow it.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A non-academic, non-evidence-based look at big tech
- De Anonymous User en 08-31-24
De: Yanis Varoufakis
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Ghosts of My Life
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Total3 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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- Tezby
- 07-31-21
An anthology of varying interest
Ghosts of My Life is a collection of essays, blog posts, reviews and other collected works by Mark Fisher. The opening essay on hauntology, Derrida, and an array of pop cultural hauntological expressions, is superb. It also happens to be the longest and most detailed section of the book, with fascinating discussion of the band Japan, and an unlikely connection between their song Ghost of My Life, and its spectral presence in early Jungle tracks. While there are many fascinating observations and wry asides in subsequent chapters in this book, they’re of varying interest. The final two chapters, on the films Inception and Robinson in Ruins, are also worth the price of entry, but overall the book is of varying levels of interest. The narration is incredibly well done, even if Tom Lawrence seems to confuse Sly and The Family Stone, with Sylvester Stallone. The only thing missing in the audio book is a playlist of all the music Fisher discusses!
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