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Social Theory


Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Orientalism
The Communist Manifesto
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
The Wretched of the Earth
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Das Kapital
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
EXSTATICA Self-Help Essentials by FrankImpermanence by Daniel FrisanoDeath by T.N.T.Esalen by Jeffrey J. KripalNever Go With Your Gut by Gleb Tsipursky
New Age studies
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David Graeber
Bullshit jobs proliferate today in large part because of the peculiar nature of managerial feudalism that has come to dominate wealthy economiesーbut to an increasing degree, all economies. They cause misery because human happiness is always caught up in a sense of having effects on the world; a feeling which most people, when they speak of their work, express through a language of social value. Yet at the same time they are aware that the greater the social value produced by a job, the less one ...more
David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

Sharon L. Reddy
Social dynamic theory is philosophy, not politics. There can't be only one correct answer, or there would only be one book." Sharon L Reddy, Worldcon, 1995. ...more
Sharon L. Reddy

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