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."
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Ruha Benjamin
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.)
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 >>
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worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781718503182
Nigeria: A New History of a Turbulent Century
Richard Bourne
A Visit From The Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
The Sin of Abbe Mouret
Émile Zola,
Valerie Pearson Minogue (trans.)
Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climate Regime
Bruno Latour
Made me think about:
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
Tokyo Ueno Station
Yu Miri,
Morgan Giles (trans.)
The Rey Chow Reader
Rey Chow,
Paul Bowman (ed.)
Death and the Penguin
Andrey Kurkov,
George Bird (trans.)
Made me think about:
- A Hero of Our Time
Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
Adam Greenfield
The Conquest of Plassans
Émile Zola
The Island of Dr Moreau
H.G. Wells
Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis
Edgar Garcia
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
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells
The Popol Vuh
Michael Bazzett (trans.)
Algorithms of Oppression
Safiya Umoja Noble
Complaint!
Sara Ahmed
On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder
Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
Francis Fukuyama
Electoral Integrity In America
Sarah Cameron (ed.),
Thomas Wynter (ed.)
The Book of Evidence
John Banville
The Unraveling
Benjamin Rosenbaum
Made me think about:
- Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover
The Cult of the Constitution
Mary Anne Franks
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Deidre Mask
Riot Baby
Tochi Onyebuchi
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins
The Stand
Stephen King
Capital in the 21st Century
Thomas Piketty
The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Alison Bechdel