Notes on books / essays / films / etc…

Postman // Amusing Ourselves to Death

Eghbal // Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

Creative Non-Fictions

Saunders // A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

Wood // Once a Warrior

Murakami // Hard Boiled Wonderland at the End of the World

Macpherson // The Real World of Democracy

McDonald // Invisible Ink

Franklin // The Real World of Technology

Frankl // Man's Search for Meaning

Ukeles // Manifesto for Maintenance Art, 1969!

Langewiesche // The Outlaw Sea

Vuong // On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Nietzsche // Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Arendt // Origins of Totalitarianism

Quinones // Dreamland

Shepard // The One Inside

Kaufman // Antkind

Murthy // Together

July // No One Belongs Here More Than You

Wallace // Infinite Jest

July // Miranda July

Wallace // Girl With Curious Hair

Mechner // The Making of Prince of Persia

Agee + Evans // Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Wallace // Both Flesh and Not

Stålenhag // Things from the Flood

Woolf // A Room of One's Own

Moore + Gibbons // Watchmen

Pynchon // Gravity's Rainbow

di Lampedusa // The Leopard

Lowenharupt Tsing // The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

Berger + Luckmann // The Social Construction of Reality

Gopnik // The Gardener and the Carpenter

Zucman // The Triumph of Injustice

Lasch // Culture of Narcissism

Wallace // Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Tolentino // Trick Mirror

Munro // Too Much Happiness

Lippmann // Public Opinion

O'Brien // The Things They Carried

Celine // Journey to the End of the Night

Boldrin + Levine // Against Intellectual Monopoly

American Factory

Atwood // Oryx and Crake

Arnade // Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America

West // Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms…

Arendt // On Revolution

Odell // How to Do Nothing

Mazzucato // The Value of Everything

Kortina // The Technology of Free Speech and Distribution: Past, Present, and Future

Bernays // Propaganda

Frase // Four Futures: Life After Capitalism

Verhaeghe // Love in a Time of Loneliness

Smith // Just Kids

Le Guin // The Left Hand of Darkness

Le Guin // The Dispossessed

Kortina // Radical Markets / RadicalxChange

O'Reilly // WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us

Kortina // Cyberpunk, Noir, and the Techno-Media-Industrial Complex

de Tocqueville // Democracy in America

Marx // Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

Roth // Who Gets What ― and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design

Haskel + Westlake // Capitalism without Capital

Gurri // The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

Bateson // Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred

Hayek // The Road to Serfdom

Kortina // Enabling Individual Actors by Making the Behavior of Other Group Members More Predictable

Durant // The Lessons of History

Kortina // Work, Art, and Dignity in the Face of AI and Mass Automation