Reading
Books: on balance, I'm for them. These are most of the ones I've read since 2007 or so. The star ratings correspond more closely to "how worth my time this felt" than "how good this is."
Exit Strategy
Martha Wells
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
W. E. B. Du Bois
Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence
Anita R. Ghodes
Made me think about:
- The Palestinine Laboratory
- Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile
- Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover
D. H. Lawrence
Made me think about:
- All Fours
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
- Anthem
- In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
- The Unraveling
- Just Kids
- No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
Angela Davis: An Autobiography
Angela Y. Davis
Ubik
Philip K. Dick
The Palestinine Laboratory
Antony Loewenstein
Made me think about:
- Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence
True Confessions
John Gregory Dunne
Blue Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
I just finished reading Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking and of course it’s all the things the everyone says: direct, heartbreaking, wise, necessary. One review included at the end of the edition I read says that it is vital reading “for any one who has lost some one... more >>
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein
Made me think about:
- The City & the City
- The Origins of Totalitarianism
- Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID
- Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
- Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England
- Publics and Counterpublics
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
Jenny Odell
Made me think about:
- The Origins of Totalitarianism
- Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
- Red Mars
- Slow Food: The Case for Taste (Arts and Traditions of the Table)
- How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
- Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climate Regime
- Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2nd ed.)
- Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America
- Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis
- The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
- Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover
The Crow
James O'Barr
Made me think about:
- Grief is for People
- The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes 30th Anniversary Edition
- Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)
- Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye (Sin City, #1)
- I Spit on Your Graves (Vernon Sullivan, #1)
Grief is for People
Sloane Crosley
Made me think about:
- The Crow
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America
All Fours
Miranda July
Made me think about:
- Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover
The Assommoir
Émile Zola,
Brian Nelson (trans.)
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion
Made me think about:
- Grief is for People
Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile
Eden Medina
Made me think about:
- Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence
Homesick: Why Housing Is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It
Brendan O'Brien
In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
John Gribbin
Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
Taylor Lorenz
Made me think about:
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
Pineapple Street
Jenny Jackson
Green Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
Introduction to Industrial Engineering
Bonnie Boardman,
Jane M. Fraser (contributor)
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Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
Made me think about:
- The Martian
- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1)
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture