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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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Exit Strategy
Martha Wells

Tordotcom
isbn 9781250191854
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finished 15 Dec 2024

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
W. E. B. Du Bois

McSweeney's
isbn 9781952119514
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finished 11 Dec 2024

Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence
Anita R. Ghodes

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780197772614
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finished 08 Dec 2024

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

Penguin
isbn 9780141441498
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finished 23 Nov 2024

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

Haymarket Books
isbn 9781642595680
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finished 07 Nov 2024

Ubik
Philip K. Dick

Mariner Books Classics
isbn 9780547572291
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finished 27 Oct 2024

The Palestinine Laboratory
Antony Loewenstein

Verso
isbn 9781839762086
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finished 11 Oct 2024

Made me think about:

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

True Confessions
John Gregory Dunne

Da Capo Press
isbn 9781560258155
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finished 08 Oct 2024

Blue Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson

Del Rey Books
isbn 9780593358856
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finished 28 Sep 2024

The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion

Vintage
isbn 9781400078431
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finished 13 Sep 2024

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 >> 

Made me think about:

  • Stag's Leap

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
isbn 9780374610326
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finished 27 Aug 2024

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

Random House Trade
isbn 9780593242728
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finished 31 Jul 2024

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

Gallery Books
isbn 9781451627251
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finished 29 Jul 2024

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

MCD
isbn 9780374609849
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finished 20 Jul 2024

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

Riverhead Books
isbn 9780593190265
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finished 13 Jul 2024

Made me think about:

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

The Assommoir
Émile Zola, Brian Nelson (trans.)

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780198828563
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finished 29 Jun 2024

Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
isbn 9780374531386
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finished 15 May 2024

Made me think about:

  • Grief is for People

Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile
Eden Medina

MIT Press
isbn 9780262525961
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finished 09 Apr 2024

Made me think about:

  • Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence
  • Looking Backward 2000-1887

Homesick: Why Housing Is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It
Brendan O'Brien

Chicago Review Press
isbn 9781641609692
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finished 01 Apr 2024

In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
John Gribbin

Bantam
isbn 9780553342536
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finished 27 Mar 2024

Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
Taylor Lorenz

Simon & Schuster
isbn 9781982146863
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finished 24 Mar 2024

Made me think about:

  • Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture

Pineapple Street
Jenny Jackson

Pamela Dorman Books
isbn 9780593490693
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finished 24 Mar 2024

Green Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson

Del Rey Books
isbn 9780593358849
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finished 10 Mar 2024

Introduction to Industrial Engineering
Bonnie Boardman, Jane M. Fraser (contributor)

Mavs Open Press
isbn 9781648169823
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finished 25 Feb 2024

Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson

Del Rey Books
isbn 9780593358825
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finished 28 Jan 2024

Made me think about:

  • The Martian
  • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
  • Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1)
  • Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
  • Semiosis

2024 total: 25
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