Hi Veeky Forums what do you think of my non-fiction collection? Is there anything else you would recommend I add to it?

Hi Veeky Forums what do you think of my non-fiction collection? Is there anything else you would recommend I add to it?

The Shock Doctrine; the Wretched of the Earth.

What are they?

If you already read the histories go straight to Plato's socratic dialogues.

very bad. best non-fic shelf ive seen in Veeky Forums was that one of the autist with lotsa kant and secondary literature on metaphysics.

postmodern shelves with derrida, deleuze etc are very aesthetic too. bonus point for land, agamben, semiotexte and art journals

What's wrong with it?

Fanon's books are excellent anticolonialism reads and the Wretched of the Earth would be a good start. The Shock Doctrine is written by Naomi Klein, and she talks about how neoliberals/capitalists take advantage of crises (man-made like coups or natural like Katrina) to push their policies without effective resistance from the distracted citizens.

too much pop sci and pop politics, lack of phil, theory, art history and history titles

There's no pop science
That stuff isn't pop politics

Very narrow currently cant see much on there that isnt about modern american or western culture (excpect the half a dozen greeks)
Try and branch out, read books on cultures you don't know much about but have some curiousity, nearly every country has a unique story - try Turkish, Colombian, Iranian, Chinese, Dutch or Balkan if you are struggling.
Also try something read things that aren't history or politics - linguistics, natural science/history, arts, georgraphy or physics.
The overall impression is that you are quite happy in your little corner - but there's a lot more out there.

Killing Pablo
Killing Jesus
Killing Hitler
Killing Patton
Killing Time in Iraq

>O'Reilly
no

Klein was misquoting Friedman and bases her entire book on a lie.

Nope.

I've seen this before - several times actually - so I'm not sure if it is sincere

Do you know wich thread it was on? Or, do you have the pic?

Yup.

Saying that Friedman meant capitalists make use of and take advantage of disasters is an utter lie.

I have that Thuciydides

Seems like you take a scattershot approach. Is there an area you're particularly interested in?

Not everyone can spend all their free time reading elitist shit. There's nothing wrong with pop sci and pop politics as an introduction, and as the another user said it's not really popsci and pop politics. Blowback was a book that basically predicted our current situation with ISIS [granted, it missed the geographical mark and predicted much larger blowback in Asia, not the middle east] and Who Rules the World is good too.

This board would be so much better if people could offer positive construction. Name titles, 'history, philosophy, and the arts' is so fucking vague and an incredibly vast feild.

what is shadow wars??

Great argument, user. Too bad that it ignores the facts. Nice spacing btw

With the Old Breed. Helmet for my Pillow. Soldiers and Ghosts.

Klein argues that capitalism is unpopular everywhere, and to implement capitalism despite loud protests of the people the capitalists take advantage of crisis' when people are sort of dazed and confused and implement 'shock therapy' through massive unregulation and liberalization of the market. She had 500 pages of room to support any of that with empirical evidence, but none was to be found.

She exemplified her theory with Friedmans quote "Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change" (while at the same time showing people getting tortured in her movie lol). The quote is from the beginning of Capitalism and Freedom, and the crisis Friedman talks about is an internal crisis caused by failing socialist/communist policies in the Soviet Union.

Please stop giving OP attention. He posts this every week.

Eh, he's been posting every 20 days or so lately. I'd rather give attention to OP than go through the 100th memerson or bait thread.

He doesn't even care. He just wants (You)s