Books & Films
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Book Club
The Dispossessed
An anarchist utopia in science fiction form — a world where freedom costs everything and ownership is violence.
9.2
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Discipline and Punish
Foucault’s genealogy of punishment is a mirror. Look closely and you’ll see the prison is everywhere.
10
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The Wretched of the Earth
A searing analysis of colonialism and the psychology of the oppressed. Essential and uncompromising.
9.8
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I, Daniel Blake
A slow, devastating dismantling of bureaucratic cruelty. The system’s indifference, made unbearably personal.
8.7
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The Battle of Algiers
One of cinema’s greatest political films. A documentary-style portrait of resistance that still feels urgent.
9.5
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Sorry to Bother You
A surreal, furious satire on capitalism and complicity. Wildly inventive and deeply unsettling.
8.4
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” — Coco Chanel•“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin•“Ideas are more powerful than guns.” — Joseph Stalin•“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker•“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” — Martin Luther King Jr.•“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” — Coco Chanel•“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin•“Ideas are more powerful than guns.” — Joseph Stalin•“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker•“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” — Martin Luther King Jr.•