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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."
Years | Authors | Titles
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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

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781509526406

31 Dec 2022
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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

26 Dec 2022
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Nigeria: A New History of a Turbulent Century
Richard Bourne

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781780329062

19 Dec 2022
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A Visit From The Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780307477477

14 Dec 2022
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The Sin of Abbe Mouret
Émile Zola, Valerie Pearson Minogue (trans.)

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780198736639

06 Dec 2022
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Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climate Regime
Bruno Latour

Made me think about:
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781509530571

15 Oct 2022
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Tokyo Ueno Station
Yu Miri, Morgan Giles (trans.)

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780593187524

08 Oct 2022
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The Rey Chow Reader
Rey Chow, Paul Bowman (ed.)

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780231149952

01 Oct 2022
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Bots
Nick Monaco, Samuel Woolley

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781509543595

13 Sep 2022
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Death and the Penguin
Andrey Kurkov, George Bird (trans.)

Made me think about:
- A Hero of Our Time

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781935554554

11 Sep 2022
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Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781594634482

31 Aug 2022
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Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
Adam Greenfield

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781784780456

13 Aug 2022
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The Conquest of Plassans
Émile Zola

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780199664788

31 Jul 2022
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The Island of Dr Moreau
H.G. Wells

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780141441023

03 Jul 2022
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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

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780226818597

25 Jun 2022
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The First Men in the Moon
H.G. Wells

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780486414188

15 Jun 2022
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The Time Machine
H.G. Wells

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780141439976

01 Jun 2022
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The Popol Vuh
Michael Bazzett (trans.)

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781571314680

01 Jun 2022
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Algorithms of Oppression
Safiya Umoja Noble

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781479837243

01 Jun 2022
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Tony Judt

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780143037750

27 May 2022
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Complaint!
Sara Ahmed

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781478017714

24 Apr 2022
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On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780804190114

07 Apr 2022
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Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
Francis Fukuyama

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781250234643

07 Apr 2022
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Electoral Integrity In America
Sarah Cameron (ed.), Thomas Wynter (ed.)

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780190934163

03 Apr 2022
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The Book of Evidence
John Banville

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780375725234

30 Mar 2022
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The Unraveling
Benjamin Rosenbaum

Made me think about:
- Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781645660019

20 Mar 2022
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The Cult of the Constitution
Mary Anne Franks

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781503614987

18 Mar 2022
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The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Deidre Mask

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781250134769

23 Feb 2022
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Riot Baby
Tochi Onyebuchi

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781250214751

07 Feb 2022
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The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781594634024

04 Feb 2022
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The Stand
Stephen King

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780307947307

30 Jan 2022
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Capital in the 21st Century
Thomas Piketty

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780674979857

29 Jan 2022
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The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Alison Bechdel

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780544387652

17 Jan 2022
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2022 total: 33
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