Malcolm Harris Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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The Republic
Plato
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
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
Malcolm 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
Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
@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
Adam: The First Perfect Master and Poet
Paul Smith
This talk between Paul Gilroy and Adam Shatz on William Gardner Smith’s The Stone Face is great https://t.co/HNE63PpUfr
Paperback, 2012
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
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
Works: Tales
John Wilson
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
Aesthetics of Resistance, 4: Charles Mingus and the Civil Rights Movement
Mario Dunkel
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

Dr. No
Percival Everett
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
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A Tree Within: Poetry
Octavio Paz
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
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Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx's Method
Bertell Ollman
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
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