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."
Looking Backward 2000-1887
Edward Bellamy
Made me think about:
- Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America
- Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
- The Utopian Vision of H.G. Wells
- Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile
- Reflections on the Revolution in France
- The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America
Josh Lauer
Made me think about:
- Looking Backward 2000-1887
- The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
- Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life
The Parasol Against the Axe
Helen Oyeyemi
Made me think about:
- Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time, #4)
- The Belly of Paris
- The Satanic Verses
- The City We Became
- Northanger Abbey
Disinformation
Frances Leviston
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024
Hugh (ed.) Howey
Sector-Based Action Against Corruption: A Guide for Organisations and Professionals
Mark Pyman,
Paul M. Heywood
The Best American Short Stories: 2024
Lauren (ed.) Groff
The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State
Philip Bowring
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 10, Volume 4: Old Demons
Christos Gage,
Nicholas Brendon
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 11, Volume 1: The Spread of Their Evil
Joss Whedon
Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life
Helen Nissenbaum
Made me think about:
- Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
David Graeber
Made me think about:
- Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America
Absolution
Jeff VanderMeer