A library consisting of the first 100 books recommended to Callanan by Amazon, based on everything he read and bought since the online retail giant first launched its recommendation algorithm over 15 years ago.
Read more, or see whole book list below, in order of recommendation:
Read more, or see whole book list below, in order of recommendation:
- Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism, Benjamin Noys, Zero Books, 31 October 2014, 978-1782793007
- Signs and Machines: Capitalism and the Production of Subjectivity, Maurizio Lazzarato, MIT Press, 3 June 2014, 978-1584351306
- Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism, Slavoj Žižek, Allen Lane, 27 November 2014, 978-0241004968
- Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, David Harvey, Profile Books, 3 April 2014, 978-1781251607
- After the Future, Franco Bifo Berardi, AK Press, 1 October 2011, 978-1849350594
- Non Stop Inertia, Ivor Southwood, Zero Books, 1 March 2011, 978-1846945304
- Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity, Gerald Raunig, MIT Press, 12 April 2013, 978-1584351160
- This is Not a Program, Tiqqun, MIT Press, 3 June 2011, 978-1584350972
- The Thing: A Phenomenology of Horror, Dylan Trigg, Zero Books, 29 August 2014, 978-1782790778
- The Last Night: Anti-Work, Atheism, Adventure, Federico Campagna, Zero Books, 25 October 2013, 978-1782791959
- Empire, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Harvard University Press, 15 August 2001, 978-0674006713
- Thousand Machines, Gerald Raunig, MIT Press, 26 April 2010, 978-1584350859
- Postmodernism: Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson, Verso Books, 14 January 1992, 978-0860915379
- First As Tragedy, Then As Farce, Slavoj Žižek, Verso, 19 October 2009, 978-1844674282
- Capital and Affects: The Politics of the Language Economy, Christian Marazzi, MIT Press, 9 August 2011, 978-1584351030
- Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, Silvia Federici, Autonomedia, 15 June 2004, 978-1570270598
- Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown, Philip Mirowski, Verso Books, 23 July 2013, 978-1781680797
- Speculative Realism: Problems and Prospects, Peter Gratton, Continuum Publishing Corporation, 31 July 2014, 978-1441174758
- The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism, Steven Shaviro, University of Minnesota Press, 1 October 2014, 978-0816689262
- Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, Nick Land, Urbanomic, 1 March 2011, 978-0955308789
- A Grammar of the Multitude, Paolo Virno, Semiotext[e], 6 February 2004, 978-1584350217
- The New Spirit of Capitalism, Luc Boltanski, Eve Chiapello, Verso, 1 September 2007, 978-1844671656
- Agony of Power, Jean Baudrillard, MIT Press, 28 January 2011, 978-1584350927
- Technics & Civilization, Lewis Mumford, University of Chicago Press, 30 November 2010, 978-0226550275
- Speculative Aesthetics, James Trafford, Robin Mackay, Luke Pendrell, Urbanomic, 22 October 2014, 978-0957529571
- Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, Reza Negarestani, re.press, 30 August 2008, 978-0980544008
- The Great Accelerator, Paul Virilio, Polity Press, 4 May 2012, 978-0745653891
- Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning, Karen Barad, Duke University Press, 25 March 2007, 978-0822339175
- Onto-Cartography, Levi R. Bryant, Edinburgh University Press, 17 February 2014, 978-0748679973
- Appropriation, David Evans, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1 April 2009, 978-0854881611
- The Consequences of Modernity, Anthony Giddens, Polity Press, 18 April 1991, 978-0745609232
- The Power at the End of the Economy, Brian Massumi, Duke University Press, 26 December 2014, 978-0822358381
- The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, Marshall McLuhan, Penguin Classics, 25 September 2008, 978-0141035826
- Detroit, Lisa D’Amour, Faber & Faber, 17 May 2012, 978-0571290161
- Understanding a Photograph, John Berger, Penguin Classics, 7 November 2013, 978-0141392028
- The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Manchester University Press, 9 August 1984, 978-0719014505
- Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences, Ulrich Beck, SAGE Publications, 21 November 2001, 978-0761961123
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee, Penguin Classics, 6 April 2006, 978-0141188492
- Culture and Materialism, Raymond Williams, Verso Books, 21 October 2005, 978-1844670604
- Testo Junkie : Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era, Beatriz Preciado, The Feminist Press CUNY, 14 November 2013, 978-1558618374
- The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures, Jean Baudrillard, SAGE Publications, 1 February 1998, 978-0761956921
- The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory, Benjamin Noys, Edinburgh University Press, 14 March 2012, 978-0748649044
- Archaeology of Knowledge, Michel Foucault, Routledge, 9 May 2002, 978-0415287531
- The Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity, Catherine Malabou, Polity Press, 1 June 2012, 978-0745652610
- Self: Philosophy In Transit, Barry Dainton, Penguin, 24 April 2014, 978-1846146206
- Runaway World, Anthony Giddens, Profile Books, 13 June 2002, 978-1861974297
- Pastoralia, George Saunders, Bloomsbury Publishing, 3 September 2001, 978-0747553861
- The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester, Gollancz, 8 July 1999, 978-1857988222
- Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, Patricia Lockwood, Penguin Books, 27 May 2014, 978-0143126522
- Uncommon Places: The Complete Works, Stephen Shore, Thames and Hudson, 20 October 2014, 978-0500544457
- Post-Photography: The Artist with a Camera, Robert Shore, Laurence King, 8 September 2014, 978-1780672281
- Post-Scarcity Anarchism, Murray Bookchin, AK Press, 12 January 2004, 978-1904859062
- True Detection, Gary J. Shipley, Edia Connole, Schism, 17 August 2014, 978-0692277379
- Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War, Colum McCann, Da Capo Press, 21 February 2013, 978-0306821769
- Mapping It Out: An Alternative Atlas of Contemporary Cartographies, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Thames and Hudson, 16 June 2014, 978-0500239186
- The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, Arjun Appadurai, Cambridge University Press, 29 January 1988, 978-0521357265
- The Flame Alphabet, Ben Marcus, Granta, 2 May 2013, 978-1847086242
- Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality, Timothy Morton, Michigan Publishing, 9 August 2013, 978-1607852025
- In the World Interior of Capital: Towards a Philosophical Theory of Globalization, Peter Sloterdijk, Polity Press, 6 September 2013, 978-0745647692
- Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas, Patrick Modiano, Yale University Press, 4 November 2014, 978-0300198058
- Ulrich Beck: A Critical Introduction to the Risk Society, Gabe Mythen, Pluto Press, 20 April 2004, 978-0745318141
- Radio Benjamin, Walter Benjamin, Verso Books, 7 October 2014, 978-1781685754
- Militant Modernism, Owen Hatherley, Zero Books, 24 April 2009, 978-1846941764
- The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena, Jean Baudrillard, Verso, 15 June 2009, 978-1844673452
- The MET Office Book of the British Weather, The Met Office, David & Charles, 25 June 2010, 978-0715336403
- The Dispossessed, Ursula Le Guin, Gollancz, 12 August 1999, 978-1857988826
- Negative Capitalism: Cynicism in the Neoliberal Era, J.D. Taylor, Zero Books, 29 March 2013, 978-1780992600
- Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order, Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, Scott Lash, Polity Press, 25 September 1994, 978-0745612782
- Chromophobia, David Batchelor, Reaktion Books, 1 September 2000, 978-1861890740
- Introducing Meteorology: A Guide to Weather, Jon Shonk, Dunedin Academic Press, 14 February 2013, 978-1780460024
- State of Insecurity: Governement of the Precarious, Isabell Lorey, Verso Books, 3 February 2015, 978-1781685969
- Shooting Space: Architecture in Contemporary Photography, Elias Redstone, Phaidon Press, 13 September 2014, 978-0714867427
- We Have Never Been Modern, Bruni Latour, Harvard University Press, 31 December 1993, 978-0674948396
- Viriconium, M. John Harrison, Gollancz, 13 July 2000, 978-1857989953
- Manhunts: A Philosophical History, Grégoire Chamayou, Princeton University Press, 22 July 2012, 978-0691151656
- The Corporate Control of Life, Vandana Shiva, Hatje Cantz, 15 April 2011, 978-3775728614
- Stuff, Daniel Miller, Polity Press, 23 October 2009, 978-0745644240
- The Quadruple Object, Graham Harman, Zero Books, 29 July 2011, 978-1846947001
- Stupeur ET Tremblements, Amélie Nothomb, Magnard, 2 February 2009, 978-2210754959
- Road to Seeing, Dan Winters, New Riders, 15 March 2014, 978-0321886392
- The Language of Things, Deyan Sudjic, Penguin, 27 August 2009, 978-0141031170
- The Spectacle of the Void, David Peak, CreateSpace, 1 December 2014, 978-1503007161
- Rich and Poor, Jim Goldberg, Steidl, 30 June 2014, 978-3869306889
- House of Coates, Brad Zellar, Coffee House Press, 30 October 2014, 978-1566893701
- The Technological Society, Jacques Ellul, Random House, 22 February 1973, 978-0394703909
- Survey, Stephen Shore, Aperture, 3 November 2014, 978-1597113090
- Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon, Barbara Cassin, Princeton University Press, 9 February 2014, 978-0691138701
- Time Without Becoming, Quentin Meillassoux, Mimesis International, 28 December 2014, 978-8857523866
- What Animals Teach Us about Politics, Brian Massumi, Duke University Press, 15 August 2014, 978-0822358008
- Gateway, Frederik Pohl, Gollancz, 29 March 2010, 978-0575094239
- 10:04, Ben Lerner, Granta, 1 January 2015, 978-1847088918
- thN Lng folk 2go: Investigating Future Premoderns, The Confraternity of Neoflagellants, Punctum Books, 31 October 2013, 978-0615890258
- Phantom Noise, Brain Turner, Bloodaxe Books, 30 October 2010, 978-1852248765
- The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, George Saunders, Bloomsbury Publishing, 16 April 2007, 978-0747585961
- Here, Richard McGuire, Hamish Hamilton, 4 December 2014, 978-0241145968
- The Female Man, Joanna Russ, Gollancz, 11 November 2010, 978-0575094994
- Hello World: Where Design Meets Life, Alice Rawsthorn, Hamish Hamilton, 7 March 2013, 978-0241145302
- Liquid Modernity, Zygmunt Bauman, Polity Press, 15 March 2000, 978-0745624105
- Time Out Of Joint, Philip K. Dick, Gollancz, 11 September 2003, 978-0575074583
- The Machine Stops, E.M. Forster, Penguin Classics, 15 February 2011, 978-0141195988
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