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For the first time in paperback--a volume of thirty-seven diabolically inventive stories, fables, and "impossible interviews" from one of the …
A Void, translated from the original French La Disparition (lit. "The Disappearance"), is a 300-page French lipogrammatic novel, written in …
omg this novel is so goood
A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his …
well this was unexpectedly bleak!
In the nineteenth century anarchists were accused of conspiracy by governments afraid of revolution, but in the current century various …
"A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the …
Thomas Rid's revelatory history of cybernetics pulls together disparate threads in the history of technology, from the invention of radar …
A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is …
The Summer Book (in the original Swedish Sommarboken) is a book written by Finnish author Tove Jansson in 1972.
In the nineteenth century anarchists were accused of conspiracy by governments afraid of revolution, but in the current century various …
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Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian high-modernist planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased …
I enjoyed this greatly and I am dyingggg to know about criticisms of big tech and surveillance capitalism that utilize the concepts in this book—particularly around legibility and the mechanization of people/minds. If you see this and you know of any, plz share! Such a good read for those of us in the interstitial spaces between the provably known and the experientially felt, and for those thinking about the pain and problems of objectivity.
Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
Around the globe, …
