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.
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  1. Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism, Benjamin Noys, Zero Books, 31 October 2014, 978-1782793007
  2. Signs and Machines: Capitalism and the Production of Subjectivity, Maurizio Lazzarato, MIT Press, 3 June 2014, 978-1584351306
  3. Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism, Slavoj Žižek, Allen Lane, 27 November 2014, 978-0241004968
  4. Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, David Harvey, Profile Books, 3 April 2014, 978-1781251607
  5. After the Future, Franco Bifo Berardi, AK Press, 1 October 2011, 978-1849350594
  6. Non Stop Inertia, Ivor Southwood, Zero Books, 1 March 2011, 978-1846945304
  7. Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity, Gerald Raunig, MIT Press, 12 April 2013, 978-1584351160
  8. This is Not a Program, Tiqqun, MIT Press, 3 June 2011, 978-1584350972
  9. The Thing: A Phenomenology of Horror, Dylan Trigg, Zero Books, 29 August 2014, 978-1782790778
  10. The Last Night: Anti-Work, Atheism, Adventure, Federico Campagna, Zero Books, 25 October 2013, 978-1782791959
  11. Empire, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Harvard University Press, 15 August 2001, 978-0674006713
  12. Thousand Machines, Gerald Raunig, MIT Press, 26 April 2010, 978-1584350859
  13. Postmodernism: Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson, Verso Books, 14 January 1992, 978-0860915379
  14. First As Tragedy, Then As Farce, Slavoj Žižek, Verso, 19 October 2009, 978-1844674282
  15. Capital and Affects: The Politics of the Language Economy, Christian Marazzi, MIT Press, 9 August 2011, 978-1584351030
  16. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, Silvia Federici, Autonomedia, 15 June 2004, 978-1570270598
  17. Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown, Philip Mirowski, Verso Books, 23 July 2013, 978-1781680797
  18. Speculative Realism: Problems and Prospects, Peter Gratton, Continuum Publishing Corporation, 31 July 2014, 978-1441174758
  19. The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism, Steven Shaviro, University of Minnesota Press, 1 October 2014, 978-0816689262
  20. Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, Nick Land, Urbanomic, 1 March 2011, 978-0955308789
  21. A Grammar of the Multitude, Paolo Virno, Semiotext[e], 6 February 2004, 978-1584350217
  22. The New Spirit of Capitalism, Luc Boltanski, Eve Chiapello, Verso, 1 September 2007, 978-1844671656
  23. Agony of Power, Jean Baudrillard, MIT Press, 28 January 2011, 978-1584350927
  24. Technics & Civilization, Lewis Mumford, University of Chicago Press, 30 November 2010, 978-0226550275
  25. Speculative Aesthetics, James Trafford, Robin Mackay, Luke Pendrell, Urbanomic, 22 October 2014, 978-0957529571
  26. Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, Reza Negarestani, re.press, 30 August 2008, 978-0980544008
  27. The Great Accelerator, Paul Virilio, Polity Press, 4 May 2012, 978-0745653891
  28. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning, Karen Barad, Duke University Press, 25 March 2007, 978-0822339175
  29. Onto-Cartography, Levi R. Bryant, Edinburgh University Press, 17 February 2014, 978-0748679973
  30. Appropriation, David Evans, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1 April 2009, 978-0854881611
  31. The Consequences of Modernity, Anthony Giddens, Polity Press, 18 April 1991, 978-0745609232
  32. The Power at the End of the Economy, Brian Massumi, Duke University Press, 26 December 2014, 978-0822358381
  33. The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, Marshall McLuhan, Penguin Classics, 25 September 2008, 978-0141035826
  34. Detroit, Lisa D’Amour, Faber & Faber, 17 May 2012, 978-0571290161
  35. Understanding a Photograph, John Berger, Penguin Classics, 7 November 2013, 978-0141392028
  36. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Manchester University Press, 9 August 1984, 978-0719014505
  37. Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences, Ulrich Beck, SAGE Publications, 21 November 2001, 978-0761961123
  38. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee, Penguin Classics, 6 April 2006, 978-0141188492
  39. Culture and Materialism, Raymond Williams, Verso Books, 21 October 2005, 978-1844670604
  40. Testo Junkie : Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era, Beatriz Preciado, The Feminist Press CUNY, 14 November 2013, 978-1558618374
  41. The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures, Jean Baudrillard, SAGE Publications, 1 February 1998, 978-0761956921
  42. The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory, Benjamin Noys, Edinburgh University Press, 14 March 2012, 978-0748649044
  43. Archaeology of Knowledge, Michel Foucault, Routledge, 9 May 2002, 978-0415287531
  44. The Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity, Catherine Malabou, Polity Press, 1 June 2012, 978-0745652610
  45. Self: Philosophy In Transit, Barry Dainton, Penguin, 24 April 2014, 978-1846146206
  46. Runaway World, Anthony Giddens, Profile Books, 13 June 2002, 978-1861974297
  47. Pastoralia, George Saunders, Bloomsbury Publishing, 3 September 2001, 978-0747553861
  48. The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester, Gollancz, 8 July 1999, 978-1857988222
  49. Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, Patricia Lockwood, Penguin Books, 27 May 2014, 978-0143126522
  50. Uncommon Places: The Complete Works, Stephen Shore, Thames and Hudson, 20 October 2014, 978-0500544457
  51. Post-Photography: The Artist with a Camera, Robert Shore, Laurence King, 8 September 2014, 978-1780672281
  52. Post-Scarcity Anarchism, Murray Bookchin, AK Press, 12 January 2004, 978-1904859062
  53. True Detection, Gary J. Shipley, Edia Connole, Schism, 17 August 2014, 978-0692277379
  54. Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War, Colum McCann, Da Capo Press, 21 February 2013, 978-0306821769
  55. Mapping It Out: An Alternative Atlas of Contemporary Cartographies, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Thames and Hudson, 16 June 2014, 978-0500239186
  56. The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, Arjun Appadurai, Cambridge University Press, 29 January 1988, 978-0521357265
  57. The Flame Alphabet, Ben Marcus, Granta, 2 May 2013, 978-1847086242
  58. Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality, Timothy Morton, Michigan Publishing, 9 August 2013, 978-1607852025
  59. In the World Interior of Capital: Towards a Philosophical Theory of Globalization, Peter Sloterdijk, Polity Press, 6 September 2013, 978-0745647692
  60. Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas, Patrick Modiano, Yale University Press, 4 November 2014, 978-0300198058
  61. Ulrich Beck: A Critical Introduction to the Risk Society, Gabe Mythen, Pluto Press, 20 April 2004, 978-0745318141
  62. Radio Benjamin, Walter Benjamin, Verso Books, 7 October 2014, 978-1781685754
  63. Militant Modernism, Owen Hatherley, Zero Books, 24 April 2009, 978-1846941764
  64. The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena, Jean Baudrillard, Verso, 15 June 2009, 978-1844673452
  65. The MET Office Book of the British Weather, The Met Office, David & Charles, 25 June 2010, 978-0715336403
  66. The Dispossessed, Ursula Le Guin, Gollancz, 12 August 1999, 978-1857988826
  67. Negative Capitalism: Cynicism in the Neoliberal Era, J.D. Taylor, Zero Books, 29 March 2013, 978-1780992600
  68. Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order, Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, Scott Lash, Polity Press, 25 September 1994, 978-0745612782
  69. Chromophobia, David Batchelor, Reaktion Books, 1 September 2000, 978-1861890740
  70. Introducing Meteorology: A Guide to Weather, Jon Shonk, Dunedin Academic Press, 14 February 2013, 978-1780460024
  71. State of Insecurity: Governement of the Precarious, Isabell Lorey, Verso Books, 3 February 2015, 978-1781685969
  72. Shooting Space: Architecture in Contemporary Photography, Elias Redstone, Phaidon Press, 13 September 2014, 978-0714867427
  73. We Have Never Been Modern, Bruni Latour, Harvard University Press, 31 December 1993, 978-0674948396
  74. Viriconium, M. John Harrison, Gollancz, 13 July 2000, 978-1857989953
  75. Manhunts: A Philosophical History, Grégoire Chamayou, Princeton University Press, 22 July 2012, 978-0691151656
  76. The Corporate Control of Life, Vandana Shiva, Hatje Cantz, 15 April 2011, 978-3775728614
  77. Stuff, Daniel Miller, Polity Press, 23 October 2009, 978-0745644240
  78. The Quadruple Object, Graham Harman, Zero Books, 29 July 2011, 978-1846947001
  79. Stupeur ET Tremblements, Amélie Nothomb, Magnard, 2 February 2009, 978-2210754959
  80. Road to Seeing, Dan Winters, New Riders, 15 March 2014, 978-0321886392
  81. The Language of Things, Deyan Sudjic, Penguin, 27 August 2009, 978-0141031170
  82. The Spectacle of the Void, David Peak, CreateSpace, 1 December 2014, 978-1503007161
  83. Rich and Poor, Jim Goldberg, Steidl, 30 June 2014, 978-3869306889
  84. House of Coates, Brad Zellar, Coffee House Press, 30 October 2014, 978-1566893701
  85. The Technological Society, Jacques Ellul, Random House, 22 February 1973, 978-0394703909
  86. Survey, Stephen Shore, Aperture, 3 November 2014, 978-1597113090
  87. Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon, Barbara Cassin, Princeton University Press, 9 February 2014, 978-0691138701
  88. Time Without Becoming, Quentin Meillassoux, Mimesis International, 28 December 2014, 978-8857523866
  89. What Animals Teach Us about Politics, Brian Massumi, Duke University Press, 15 August 2014, 978-0822358008
  90. Gateway, Frederik Pohl, Gollancz, 29 March 2010, 978-0575094239
  91. 10:04, Ben Lerner, Granta, 1 January 2015, 978-1847088918
  92. thN Lng folk 2go: Investigating Future Premoderns, The Confraternity of Neoflagellants, Punctum Books, 31 October 2013, 978-0615890258
  93. Phantom Noise, Brain Turner, Bloodaxe Books, 30 October 2010, 978-1852248765
  94. The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, George Saunders, Bloomsbury Publishing, 16 April 2007, 978-0747585961
  95. Here, Richard McGuire, Hamish Hamilton, 4 December 2014, 978-0241145968
  96. The Female Man, Joanna Russ, Gollancz, 11 November 2010, 978-0575094994
  97. Hello World: Where Design Meets Life, Alice Rawsthorn, Hamish Hamilton, 7 March 2013, 978-0241145302
  98. Liquid Modernity, Zygmunt Bauman, Polity Press, 15 March 2000, 978-0745624105
  99. Time Out Of Joint, Philip K. Dick, Gollancz, 11 September 2003, 978-0575074583
  100. The Machine Stops, E.M. Forster, Penguin Classics, 15 February 2011, 978-0141195988

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