Boris: 660 books

From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant essay likens totalitarian aims to the modernists’...

The public generally regards the media with suspicion and distrust. Therefore, the media's primary concern is to regain that trust through the production of sincerity. Advancing the field of media studies in a truly innovative way, Boris Groys focuses on the media's affect of sincerity and its manufacture...

The Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913) revolutionized the study of language, signs, and discourse in the twentieth century. He successfully reconstructed the proto-Indo-European vowel system, advanced a conception of language as a system of arbitrary signs made meaningful through kinetic...

Parasitic wasps have suddenly infested the cities. By some freak mutation, they are now using humans as their incubators. Chaos and mayhem are widespread.Fleeing to a small town, where things are a little calmer, Florence and Henry struggle to start a new, normal life with their grand-daughter, Lola.However, their world is about to shatter.A short story.

A collection of five short stories.Sometimes They Let You GoParasitic wasps have begun to target humans. A family flees the chaotic city to a farm house. But can they really be safe there?Pit StopGlen is running from the police, and he ends up in an obscure gas station. Will his plan...

Glen takes a forced pit stop when his car runs out of gas. He is running away from the police, and has little time to find a new ride. There's a truck at the gas station, and he's confident he can negotiate for the keys. However, it's not that easy to fool Tim. Especially when Marla gets in the way. A short story.

Fin dalla sua prima pubblicazione nel 1983, I miti egizi di Boris de ­Rachewiltz è stato un volume imprescindibile non solo per quanti si occupano della civiltà egizia e dei suoi aspetti mitologici e religiosi, ma anche e soprattutto per i lettori interessati a conoscerne i segreti. Concepito come...

Since Plato, philosophers have dreamed of establishing a rational state ruled through the power of language. In this radical and disturbing account of Soviet philosophy, Boris Groys argues that communism shares that dream and is best understood as an attempt to replace financial with linguistic bonds...

O sofrimento de Deus: inversões do Apocalipse é uma análise e uma reconstrução brilhante dos três maiores sistemas de crença da atualidade. Um debate entre Slavoj Žižek, um dos intelectuais mais articulados do mundo, e o filósofo croata Boris Gunjevi?, teólogo radical. Em seis capítulos...

The peasantry accounted for the large majority of the Russian population during the Imperialist and Stalinist periods – it is, for the most part, how people lived. Peasants in Russia from Serfdom to Stalin provides a comprehensive, realistic examination of peasant life in Russia during both these...

Here is the amazing autobiography of a man born to a life of wealth and privilege as the youngest son of a Siberian industrial tycoon. With the coming of the Russian Revolution, his charmed life is swept away, and he is thrust into a world of poverty and oppression. Relying solely on his wits, his...

Times change, and with them the hearts of lovers... BARFHOGS People are the worst. You can see it everywhere you look. Marcus just wants to live clean but the blood he spills stains everything. And those closest to him are the dirtiest. You can look at it so close, up under the microscope of misery,...

When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 the Red Army had four times as many tanks as the Wehrmacht and their tanks were seemingly superior, yet the Wehrmacht won the border battles with extraordinary ease the Red Armys tank force was pushed aside and for the most part annihilated. How was...

The monumental battles of World War II's Eastern Front—Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk—are etched into the historical record. But there is another, hidden history of that war that has too often been ignored in official accounts. Boris Gorbachevsky was a junior officer in the 31st Army who first...