Thomas reviewed Ways of Being by James Bridle
Not sure on this one
3 étoiles
I found this book quite hard to read for some reason. Some interesting stories and some grand ideas.
Langue : English
Publié 18 mai 2022 par Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
I found this book quite hard to read for some reason. Some interesting stories and some grand ideas.
Where I am right now, after an overlapping decades-long journey through computability, animal and ecological intelligence, finding human humility after capitalism's techno-categorizing-hubris. Seeking an answer to how technology, how participation in understanding, should adapt to a collaborative-multiple-perspective de-centering of humanity and our binary truths. This sticks to a deep middle, the claims Bridle makes for "opening up to the more-than-human world" are broad, pointed in good directions, and avoid anger or hopelessness while staying critical. My recommendations for adjacent reading would be Frans de Waal's "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are", Emma Marris' "Wild Souls", Richard Power's "The Overstory", and a lot of Ursula K LeGuin, but the bibliography has a whole stack of new reading lined up for me too.