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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."
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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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