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Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018
The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet
"The publishing model is also unique, and uniquely cozy, published in small samizdat-type batches that can escape detection by Sophons. The book is published by Metalabel, Yancey’s new venture, which attempts to bring cozy indie-music-label vibes and anti-memetic defense shields to publishing."
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/04/16/the-dark-forest-anthology-of-the-internet/
“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it,”
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
From
Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises
By Jonathan S. Blake, Nils Gilman
The Third Great Decentering
A paradigm shift from globalization to planetary governance.
https://www.noemamag.com/the-third-great-decentering
Book:
(Do you know of Bernard Stiegler ? I did only vaguely, and after this piece I am going to.)
Our tools shape our selves
For Bernard Stiegler, a visionary philosopher of our digital age, technics is the defining feature of human experience.
Bryan Norton
https://aeon.co/essays/bernard-stieglers-philosophy-on-how-technology-shapes-our-world
Books:
/nosanitize
https://app.thestorygraph.com/browse?search_term=Bernard%20Stiegler
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
Ingrid Robeyns (Author)
Review:
Book:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/limitarianism-the-case-against-extreme-wealth-ingrid-robeyns/20074526
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
By Bettany Hughes
Review:
So the opinionatedness of the book is phenomenological rather than ideological. So for example, even though it is a history by a woman who openly emphasizes the role of women in the story, it doesn’t read like a feminist
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/04/12/istanbul-a-tale-of-three-cities-by-bettany-hughes/
Book:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/istanbul-a-tale-of-three-cities-bettany-hughes/7214857
Free to read book.
The mind-body problems
Science, Subjectivity & Who We Really Are
By John Horgan
Could the Buddhists be right that the self is a mirage? Given all the metamorphoses we undergo as we age, is it absurd to believe in something enduring at our core? Can I really be the same person as that boy pushing through weeds and bleating, “I’m me”?
Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live Without a Self
Jay L. Garfield (Author)
Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWbv42GFj9Y
Book:
About Ed
By Robert Gluck
Review:
Voices of Mourning
What do we owe the dead?
By Hannah Gold
https://thebaffler.com/latest/voices-of-mourning-gold
Book:
Nordic Visions: The Best of Nordic Speculative Fiction
Review:
Helgadóttir’s introduction provides an informative overview of Nordic speculative fiction as a whole and positions the genre within the broader context of the Nordic literary tradition, while also delineating some of the cultural and historical differences found in each of the countries comprising the region.
Book:
How a science fiction obsession led me to psychological war.
I've spent the past three years researching and writing a book about the history of psychological warfare in the United States. It’s called Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind, and it comes out on June 4. The subject crept up on me, and not for the reasons you might think.
Annalee Newitz
https://buttondown.email/thehypothesis/archive/how-a-science-fiction-obsession-led-me-to/
@Museek
If I may I also recommend….
In When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times. — her timeless field guide to transformation through difficult times
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
by Pema Chödrön
Octavia Butler, Audre Lorde, and the Power of Pleasure
"I also think the acclaim around the Parables sometimes eclipses Butler’s other work, which is just as fascinating, just as disturbing and challenging."
In Xenogenesis, the Oankali can exude chemicals that drug humans with a thought and heal with a touch. They manipulate their own genetic makeup and easily heal their own bullet wounds. Yet they depend on their human relationships in order to live.
https://reactormag.com/octavia-butler-audre-lorde-and-the-power-of-pleasure/
Céline Keller collected quotes from people—many of whom don’t identify as degrowthers—in books, news articles, academic papers, and social media posts, and turned all of that into a 158 page “different kind of graphic novel.” Free dowload or buy a print version.
Sophia Bogle is an expert at restoring old books and I was riveted by this video of her taking viewers through the deconstruction and restoration process, including a tour of her workshop and some of the tools she uses (e.g. a repair knife she designed herself to resemble a fingertip).
https://kottke.org/24/04/this-woman-deconstructs-100-year-old-books-to-restore-them
Narcissism in Reflection
Can you look away? A review of The Portrait of a Mirror by A. Natasha Joukovsky.
The ways in which we conceive of ourselves has grown increasingly individuated. There is intriguing research that has traced this psychological phenomenon to the disruption of kinship networks by the medieval Christian church. More recently, there is growing concern about the social costs this atomization and subsequent turn inward has incurred.
Stetson
Who’s Afraid Of Gender
by Judith Butler
Global networks have formed "anti-gender ideology movements" that are dedicated to circulating a fantasy that gender is a dangerous, perhaps diabolical, threat to families, local cultures, civilization--and even "man" himself.
Review:
https://archive.is/TrNIJ
Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbGGAdsGEFM
Book:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/who-s-afraid-of-gender-judith-butler/19994814
Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below
Jane Kamensky (Author)
Review:
Kamensky shows that the sexual revolution was always only partly about sex. It was also about technological transformation; about personal branding, the search for authenticity; and about the blurring of private life and screen life
By Fred Turner
Book:
The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity
Claudia de Rham (Author)
This Jazz Legend Is His Own Work in Progress
The private musings of Sonny Rollins reveal an artist devoted to the rigors of self-improvement.
Review:
Book:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-notebooks-of-sonny-rollins-sonny-rollins/20086916
Stand with 🇮🇱 🇺🇦
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018