Dave Eggers

Hardcover copy in excellent physical condition with some underlining on about a dozen pages toward the end of the book (see two pictures for examples). I read it in grad school, so I was marking it up for paper writing.

The novel is okay. Eggers seems to think he’s more clever than you, but, my guy, you don’t need to walk us through how the translucent, voracious shark is a metaphor for the titular company. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. Mae is thrilled with the company's modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can't believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public.

The Circle

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Don Ihde

Lenore Langsdorf

Kirk M. Besmer

Aud Sissel Hoel

Annamaria Carusi

Marie-Christine Nizzi

Fernando Secomandi

Asle Kiran

Yoni Van Den Eede

Søren Riis

Frances Bottenberg

Chris Kaposy

Adam Rosenfeld

Jan Kyrre Berg Friis

Andrew Feenberg

Diane Michelfelder

Albert Borgmann

Like new except for a sticker on the spine. Interesting collection inspired by the work of Don Ihde, though it relies on a somewhat staid (but reliable) concept of technology as extensions of human capacities. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Essays on Human-Technology Relations

This book provides an introduction to postphenomenology, an emerging school of thought in the philosophy of technology and science and technology studies, which addresses the relationships users develop with the devices they use.

Postphenomenological Investigations

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Antonio Damasio

Although I purchased this “used,” its spine is unbroken. Minor signs of wear on some outside corners. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain

A "clear, accessbile" investigation into the philosophical and scientific foundations of human life, from one of the world's leading neuroscientists (San Francisco Chronicle).



Joy, sorrow, jealousy, and awe--these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. In the seventeenth century, the philosopher Spinoza devoted much of his life's work examining how these emotions supported human survival, yet hundreds of years later the biological roots of what we feel remain a mystery.



Antonio Damasio--whose earlier books explore rational behavior and the notion of the self--rediscovers a man whose work ran counter to all the thinking of his day, pairing Spinoza's insights with his own innovative scientific research to help us understand what we're made of, and what we're here for.

Looking for Spinoza

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Neil Gaiman

A collection of short works offers stories that range in setting from a ghost-ridden cellar to a hotel convention of serial kilers, and includes works by Gene Wolfe, Clive Barker, Tad Williams, and Barbara Hambly.

The Sandman, vol 4: Season of Mists

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Brian K. Vaughan

Pia Guerra

Massimo Carnevale

Jose Marzan

Ring of Truth

When a plague of unknown origin kills every mammal with a Y chromosome, Yorick Brown discovers that he is the only male left and embarks on a transcontinental journey to discover why.

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Girl on Girl

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Goran Sudzuka

José Marzan

Paper Dolls

"Y: The last man created by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra."

Y: The Last Man book 7

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Kimono Dragons

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Whys and Wherefores

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Samuel Beckett

Some underlining and marginal notes. Otherwise physically like new. 

Company, Ill Seen, Ill Said, Worstward Ho

Now compiled in one volume, these three novels, which are among the most beautiful and disquieting of Samuel Beckett's later prose works, work together with the powerful resonance of his famous Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable. In Company, a voice comes to "one on his back in the dark" and speaks to him. Ill Seen Ill Said focuses attention on an old woman in a cabin who is part of the objects, landscape, rhythms, and movements of an incomprehensible universe. And in Worstward Ho, Beckett explores a tentative, uncertain existence in a world devoid of rational meaning and purpose. Here is language pared down to its most expressive, confirming Beckett's position as one of the great writers of our time.

Nohow On

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Keekok Lee

Deep Science and Deep Technology

Philosophy and Revolutions in Genetics

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Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Software and Memory

A theoretical examination of the surprising emergence of software as a guiding metaphor for our neoliberal world.

Programmed Visions

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Manuel De Landa

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

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Owen Flanagan

Owen Flanagan argues that we are on the way to understanding consciousness and its place in the natural order.

Consciousness Reconsidered

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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Ed Park

Selected Works

"Mastery over language that was borrowed, that was not her mother tongue, enabled Theresa Hak Kyung Cha to empathize with her viewer (her distant audience) as powerfully as any artist I know. In Exilée and Temps Morts I listen with fascination as her tongue exercises furtively and nimbly, convincing me that Cha would have been the exemplary artist of identity had she lived another ten years."--Byron Kim "Conceptual, poetic, visual, the writings of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha are radical and subtle responses to the artistic context of their time and reveal powerful areas of exploration to readers. Like few other contemporary collections, this book opens up new horizons in literature, art history, film theory, and linguistics, emphasizing the originality of a unique body of work that belongs both to history and to the present."--Elvan Zabunyan, author of Black Is a Color "Since its publication within weeks of her premature death, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée has attracted academic, feminist, literary, and cult followings. But despite the passion that erupts through its surface, it is in many ways an austere book. It withholds something--and purposefully so. This unexpected new collection of Cha's other, previously uncollected writings/inscribings offers something gentler, more intimate--and, though not less alienated, perhaps, the Cha we encounter in Exilée and Temps Morts is more playful. The works collected here resonate with vivacity and the luminous presence that was, and remains, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. "--Lyn Hejinian, author of A Border Comedy

Exilée and Temps Morts

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Elizabeth Grossman

Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health

An environmental journalist reveals that digital may be sleek, but it's anything but clean. Deep within every electronic device lie toxic materials that make up the bits and bytes, a complex thicket of lead, mercury, cadmium, plastics, and a host of other often harmful ingredients.

High Tech Trash

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Ray Kurzweil

The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

Explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain, outlining the controversial implications of increasing intelligence in order to address global problems while comparing emotional and moral intelligence and considering the origins of consciousness.

How to Create a Mind

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Alain Badiou

Bruno Bosteels

Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the “linguistic turn” in modern philosophy, and anatomizes the “anti-philosophy” of Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Addressing the crucial moment where Wittgenstein argues that much has to be passed over in silence—showing what cannot be said, after accepting the limits of language and meaning—Badiou argues that this mystical act reduces logic to rhetoric, truth to an effect of language games, and philosophy to a series of esoteric aphorisms. in the course of his interrogation of Wittgenstein’s anti-philosophy, Badiou sets out and refines his own definitions of the universal truths that condition philosophy. Bruno Bosteels’ introduction shows that this encounter with Wittgenstein is central to Badiou’s overall project—and that a continuing dialogue with the exemplar of anti-philosophy is crucial for contemporary philosophy.

Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy

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David Rambo

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