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Books: on balance, I'm for them. These are most of the ones I've read since 2007 or so.
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Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Ruha Benjamin

Polity Press
isbn 9781509526406
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finished 31 Dec 2022

Made me think about:

  • Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence

Ada & Zangemann: A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream
Matthias Kirschner, Sandra Brandstätter (illus.)

No Starch Press
isbn 9781718503182
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finished 26 Dec 2022

I was lucky to get my hands on a physical copy of Ada & Zangemann: A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream, by Matthias Kirshner (President of Free Software Foundation Europe) and illustrator Sandra Brandstätter. It’s a lovely children’s book about the joy of tinkering, open and closed... more >> 

Nigeria: A New History of a Turbulent Century
Richard Bourne

Zed Books
isbn 9781780329062
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finished 19 Dec 2022

A Visit From The Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan

Anchor Books
isbn 9780307477477
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finished 14 Dec 2022

The Sin of Abbe Mouret
Émile Zola, Valerie Pearson Minogue (trans.)

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780198736639
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finished 06 Dec 2022

Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climate Regime
Bruno Latour

Polity Press
isbn 9781509530571
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finished 15 Oct 2022

Made me think about:

  • Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture

Tokyo Ueno Station
Yu Miri, Morgan Giles (trans.)

Riverhead Books
isbn 9780593187524
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finished 08 Oct 2022

The Rey Chow Reader
Rey Chow, Paul Bowman (ed.)

Columbia University Press
isbn 9780231149952
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finished 01 Oct 2022

Bots
Nick Monaco, Samuel Woolley

Polity Press
isbn 9781509543595
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finished 13 Sep 2022

Death and the Penguin
Andrey Kurkov, George Bird (trans.)

Melville House Publishing
isbn 9781935554554
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finished 11 Sep 2022

Made me think about:

  • A Hero of Our Time

Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff

Riverhead Books
isbn 9781594634482
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finished 31 Aug 2022

Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
Adam Greenfield

Verso
isbn 9781784780456
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finished 13 Aug 2022

The Conquest of Plassans
Émile Zola

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780199664788
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finished 31 Jul 2022

The Island of Dr Moreau
H.G. Wells

Penguin
isbn 9780141441023
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finished 03 Jul 2022

Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis
Edgar Garcia

University of Chicago Press
isbn 9780226818597
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finished 25 Jun 2022

Made me think about:

  • Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
  • Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture

The First Men in the Moon
H.G. Wells

Dover
isbn 9780486414188
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finished 15 Jun 2022

The Time Machine
H.G. Wells

Penguin Books
isbn 9780141439976
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finished 01 Jun 2022

The Popol Vuh
Michael Bazzett (trans.)

Milkweed Editions
isbn 9781571314680
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finished 01 Jun 2022

Algorithms of Oppression
Safiya Umoja Noble

New York University Press
isbn 9781479837243
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finished 01 Jun 2022

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Tony Judt

Penguin Books
isbn 9780143037750
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finished 27 May 2022

Complaint!
Sara Ahmed

Duke University Press
isbn 9781478017714
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finished 24 Apr 2022

On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder

Crown Publishing Group
isbn 9780804190114
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finished 07 Apr 2022

Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
Francis Fukuyama

Picador USA
isbn 9781250234643
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finished 07 Apr 2022

Electoral Integrity In America
Sarah Cameron (ed.), Thomas Wynter (ed.)

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780190934163
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finished 03 Apr 2022

The Book of Evidence
John Banville

Vintage
isbn 9780375725234
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finished 30 Mar 2022

The Unraveling
Benjamin Rosenbaum

Erewhon
isbn 9781645660019
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finished 20 Mar 2022

Made me think about:

  • Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover

The Cult of the Constitution
Mary Anne Franks

Stanford University Press
isbn 9781503614987
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finished 18 Mar 2022

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Deidre Mask

St. Martin's Press
isbn 9781250134769
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finished 23 Feb 2022

Riot Baby
Tochi Onyebuchi

Tordotcom
isbn 9781250214751
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finished 07 Feb 2022

The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins

Riverhead Books
isbn 9781594634024
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finished 04 Feb 2022

The Stand
Stephen King

Anchor Books
isbn 9780307947307
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finished 30 Jan 2022

Capital in the 21st Century
Thomas Piketty

Belknap Press
isbn 9780674979857
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finished 29 Jan 2022

The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Alison Bechdel

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
isbn 9780544387652
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finished 17 Jan 2022

2022 total: 33
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