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Malcolm Harris Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Malcolm Harris is a journalist, critic and author. writer PALO ALTO, KIDS THESE DAYS, SHIT IS FUCKED UP AND BULLSHIT working on a new one about climate politics malcolmpharris@gmail California communist (him)

23 books
Book Cover for: The Republic, Plato

The Republic

Plato
Malcolm HarrisMalcolm Harris

I believe that last one was a complaint about when Badiou tried to rewrite Plato's Republic with a mean feminist character.

Hardcover, 2023

$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, Malcolm Harris

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

Malcolm Harris
Malcolm HarrisMalcolm Harris

If you're interested in how Bay Area financial infrastructure constantly tempts capitalists into cycles of association and betrayal, check out my new book, PALO ALTO: A HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA, CAPITALISM, AND THE WORLD https://t.co/kx0eaL9c5y

Hardcover, 2023

$36.00$18.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Malcolm HarrisMalcolm Harris

@therevcoms @RichardKreitner Please Face with rolling eyes not since January 1971. Read Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's OUTLAW WOMAN

Paperback, 2014

$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Adam: The First Perfect Master and Poet, Paul Smith

Adam: The First Perfect Master and Poet

Paul Smith
Malcolm HarrisMalcolm Harris

This talk between Paul Gilroy and Adam Shatz on William Gardner Smith’s The Stone Face is great https://t.co/HNE63PpUfr

Paperback, 2012

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, Shoshana Zuboff

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Shoshana Zuboff
Malcolm HarrisMalcolm Harris

A well-timed critique of Big Tech, the book acquired plaudits from mainstream institutions... [The] book offers a model of “behavioral surplus,” in which tech monopolists cultivate users for data, which they refine and use to maintain their position.

Paperback, 2020

$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Works: Tales, John Wilson

Works: Tales

John Wilson
Malcolm HarrisMalcolm Harris

I know the author works on the John Wilson show, and this made me go like "Wait is half of this comedy just depoliticized (and old) institutional critique?" https://t.co/3y8b4De8q4

Paperback, 2010

$30.95$15.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Aesthetics of Resistance, 4: Charles Mingus and the Civil Rights Movement, Mario Dunkel

Aesthetics of Resistance, 4: Charles Mingus and the Civil Rights Movement

Mario Dunkel
Malcolm HarrisMalcolm Harris

When I started Aesthetics of Resistance I was excited to read 20th century historical fiction from a closely shared political perspective and now I'm like Oh no :(

Out of stock

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Book Cover for: Dr. No, Percival Everett

Dr. No

Percival Everett
Malcolm HarrisMalcolm Harris

I hope Percival Everett has a good sense of humor about the thoroughly mid-tier DR. NO getting nominated for all these awards

Paperback, 2022

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Tree Within: Poetry, Octavio Paz

A Tree Within: Poetry

Octavio Paz
Malcolm HarrisMalcolm Harris

I think Octavio Paz is considered like way too corny by actual poetry people but I still like it and it's a fun way to practice Spanish okay

Paperback, 1988

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx's Method, Bertell Ollman

Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx's Method

Bertell Ollman
Malcolm HarrisMalcolm Harris

Re: dialectics, what it is and why it matters, I love the short first chapter to Bertell Ollman's DANCE OF THE DIALECTIC. Great book in general. https://t.co/h0lAfA6P7i

Paperback, 2003

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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