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Critical Theory

  • Updated 6 months ago
  • 125 Books
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The Culture Industry
Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things
Media Theory in Japan
Orientalism
Otaku
Critique of Cynical Reason
The End of Japanese Cinema: Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies
A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas
Glitch Feminism
Phänomenologie des Geistes
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Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses

The Ideas Industry
Who Owns the Future?
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology
Necropolitics
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Studies in Pessimism

Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
FurScience! A Summary of Five Years of Research from the International Anthropomorphic Research Project
オタク学入門
Cyberia : Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace
Storming the Reality Studio
The Communist Manifesto
Racism Without Racists
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Anime's Media Mix

The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
The Second Sex
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
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E Unibus Pluram

定本 物語消費論
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Beowulf and the Critics

Supernatural Horror in Literature
The Anime Machine
Anime and the Visual Novel : Narrative Structure, Design and Play at the Crossroads of Animation and Computer Games
Intersecting Identities and Interculturality: Discourse and Practice
American Marxism
The Aesthetics of Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture
Unbecoming Cinema: Unsettling Encounters with Ethical Event Films
From Caligari to Hitler
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Torture Porn

Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
The Language of New Media
Instagram and Contemporary Image
Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace
Black Skin, White Masks
Understanding Comics
Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan
Media : The Second God
Comics and Sequential Art
Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America
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Postcapitalist Desire

A Postcapitalist Politics
Everything and Less
The Superhero Reader
The Contemporary Superhero Film: Projections of Power and Identity
On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis
Propaganda and the public mind : conversations with Noam Chomsky
Notes on Camp
The Wretched of the Earth
Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza
SCUM Manifesto
The Feminine Mystique
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Women, Race & Class
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
The Situation in Biological Science,
Archaeologies of the Future
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
Jamaica's Difficult Subjects: Negotiating Sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Criticism
Race and Popular Fantasy Fiction: Habits of Whiteness
Grace of Destruction, The: A Vital Ethology of Extreme Cinemas
Fan Identities in the Furry Fandom
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Society of the Spectacle
The history of sexuality
Poetics
Looking Awry
Mimesis : the representation of reality in Western literature
The Republic
The Uncanny
A Defense of Poesie
A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
An Essay On Criticism
Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
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The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain

A Critique Of Postcolonial Reason: Toward A History Of The Vanishing Present
"Society Must Be Defended"
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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Postmodern Blackness

One Is Not Born a Woman
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Citizen Coke

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Collecting
A Obra de Arte na Era de Sua Reprodutibilidade Técnica - Volume 1. Coleção L&PM Pocket
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Culture

Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics
Playing and Reality
The Rape of the Nation and the Hymen Fantasy: Japan's Modernity, the American South, and Faulkner
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