Politics (General)

Fisher, M. (2021). Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures. Repeater Books.

Žižek, S. (2008). Violence: Six Sideways Reflections. Profile Books.

Han, B. (2017). Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power. Verso.

Han, B. (2015). The Burnout Society. Stanford University Press.

Lasch, C. (1996). The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy. W. W. Norton & Company.

Châtelet, G. (2014). To Live and Think Like Pigs: The Incitement of Envy and Boredom in Market Democracies. Urbanomic.

Philosophy (General)

Tzu, L. (2002). Tao Te Ching. Penguin Classics.

al-Balkhi, A. Z. (2010). Sustenance of the Soul. International Institute of Islamic Thought.

Camus, A. (1991). The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays. Vintage International.

Scruton, R. (2017). On Human Nature. Princeton University Press.

Pyschoanalysis

Žižek, S. (2006). How To Read Lacan. W. W. Nortion & Company.

Freud, S. (2005). The Essentials of Psycho-Analysis. Vintage Books.

McGowan, T. (2022). The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of Hatred. Bloomsbury Academic.

Reshe, J. (2023). Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive. Palgrave Macmillan.

Rose, J. (2005). Sexuality in the Field of Vision. Verso.

Copjec, J. (2015). Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists. Verso.

Penney, J. (2006). The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire. State University of New York Press.

Society & Culture

Fisher, M. (2009). Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?. Zero Books.

Kiberd, R. (2021). The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet. Serpent's Tail.

Nobis, N. & Grob, K. (2019). Thinking Critically About Abortion: Why Most Abortions Aren't Wrong & Why All Abortions Should Be Legal. Open Philosophy Press.

Dreger, A. (2006). Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar's Search for Justice. Penguin Books.

Lasch, C. (1979). The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. W. W. Norton & Company.

Paglia, C. (2017). Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism. Pantheon.

Lashomb, D. (2021). Warhol / Chris Chan: The Lifespan of American Pop Culture, or The Suppression of Reality. Independently published.

Relationships & Sexuality

Fern, J. (2020). Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy. Scribe.

Fern, J. & Cooley, D. (2023). Polywise: A Deeper Dive into Navigating Open Relationships. Scribe.

Hardy, J. W. & Easton, D. (2017). The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love (Third Edition). Ten Speed Press.

Coontz, S. (1992). The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. Basic Books.

Engels, F. (2010). The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. Penguin Classics.

Lavery, G. (2024). Closures: Heterosexuality and the American Sitcom. Duke University Press.

Masculinity

Power, N. (2023). What Do Men Want? Masculinity and Its Discontents. Penguin Books.

Johanssen, J. (2021). Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere: Male Bodies of Dis/Inhibition. Routledge.

Theweleit, K. (1987). Male Fantasies Volume 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History. University of Minnesota Press.

Theweleit, K. (1989). Male Fantasies Volume 2: Male Bodies: Psychoanalysing the White Terror. University of Minnesota Press.

Weird/Unclassifiable

Moynihan, T. (2019). Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History. Urbanomic.

Land, N. (2014). Templexity: Disordered Loops through Shanghai Time. Urbanatomy Electronic.

Bataille, G. (1985). Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927–1939. University of Minnesota Press.

Negarestani, R. (2008). Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials. re.press.