"We Be The Humans"
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 Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
Yascha Mounk (Author)
A new ideology aiming to place each person's matrix of identities at the center of social, cultural, and political life has quickly become highly influential. It stifles discourse, vilifies mutual influence as cultural appropriation, denies that members of different groups can truly understand one another
Podcast interview
https://philosophybites.libsyn.com/yascha-mounk-on-the-identity-trap
Book:
A review of:
Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
Samuel Moyn (Author)
Cold War Liberalism in the Courtroom
Reckoning with the Samuel Moyn’s post-Holocaust liberals.
Ohad Reiss-Sorokin
https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/missing-character/articles/cold-war-liberalism-in-the-courtroom
Billed as a “rediscovered” novel, “Until August” is likely to be the last published book of fiction by the Colombian master and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez.
Book:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/until-august-gabriel-garcia-marquez/20673186
( you don't have to be a military geek, to enjoy this book)
The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers
Andrew F. Krepinevich (Author)
Review:
‘The A-10 saved my ass’
Andrew Cockburn
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/andrew-cockburn/the-a-10-saved-my-ass
Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring
Brad Gooch (Author)
Review:
Haring, who died at 31 of complications from AIDS after a brief but dizzyingly productive international career, drew and painted for the masses and the kids, sometimes getting handcuffed and fined for his trouble.
Book:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/radiant-the-life-and-line-of-keith-haring-brad-gooch/20299648
The New Science of the Enchanted Universe
Marshall Sahlins
Review:
These familiar binaries—of “natural” versus “supernatural,” “material” versus “spiritual,” “secular” versus “religious”—make no sense, he argues, as a way to understand the halibut master of species that brokers deals with Kwakiutl fishermen in the Pacific Northwest. For ancient Sumerians, minerals like salt were alive, with opinions of their own.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/marshall-sahlins-new-science-enchanted-universe/
Book
Categories We Live by: How We Classify Everyone and Everything
Gregory L. Murphy (Author)
"We put an awful lot of effort into trying to figure out and convince others of just what kind of person someone is, what kind of action something was, and even what kind of object something is. We often feel that once we determine the thing’s category, then all questions will be answered about it:"
The Art and History of Lettering Comics is available free on letterer Todd Klein's blog. Originally planned as a print book, he's posted the whole thing online. From the early 1900s to today, Todd covers the evolution of word balloons, special effects lettering and comic book and newspaper comic letterers know and unknown and much more.
https://kleinletters.com/Blog/the-art-and-history-of-lettering-comics/
Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean
By Matt Strassler
Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCpELmx425w
Book:
Blog:
#Books
#HistoryOf Science
Review: Nicholas Heron On Lorraine Daston
Critique of Pure Mindlessness
Rules: A Short History of What We Live By
by Lorraine Daston
https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/review/critique-of-pure-mindlessness/
Book:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/rules-a-short-history-of-what-we-live-by-lorraine-daston/17417127
and
Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
By Charan Ranganath
The problem isn’t your memory, it’s that we have the wrong expectations for what memory is for in the first place. Severe memory loss is undoubtedly debilitating, but our most typical complaints and worries around everyday forgetting are largely driven by deeply rooted misconceptions.”
Review:
This bookshop in Fort Collins is paying people to sit down and read quietly
Perelandra Bookshop’s reader-in-residence commits to reading at the store for two hours per week in exchange for a small coffee and book stipend
Parker Yamasaki
https://coloradosun.com/2024/02/28/perelandra-bookshop-reader-in-residence
(This one is important !)
The Art of Solitude
by Stephen Batchelor
(In my own Buddhist practice Stephen Batchelor has been a very big Influence. Starting with "Buddhism without Beliefs" and all his other books, and teachings. Yet this one is very dear to my heart.)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50130878-the-art-of-solitude
Hear him talk about the ideas in this book:
Stephen Batchelor Finding Ease in Aloneness
https://onbeing.org/programs/stephen-batchelor-finding-ease-in-aloneness/
Inoculation Manuals:
As a union rep for 30 years, one of my jobs was to help workers anticipate and better respond to management lies and half-truths. Anyone conducting similar “inoculation” sessions for activists engaged in organizing, bargaining, or pro-labor lobbying today will benefit from consulting two new books:
Wall Street’s War on Workers
https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/wall-streets-war-on-workers/
Corporate Bullsh*t
https://thenewpress.com/books/corporate-bullsht
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science.
By Benjamin Breen
(In her new experimental novel "Alphabetical Diaries" by Sheila Heti, begins with A and ends with Z.)
It’s a text best consumed in long sittings in order for its echoes and serendipities to register, but it’s exciting, too, to be reminded of just how much narrative oomph can be packed into that most basic building block of prose – the sentence.
Review:
By Hephzibah Anderson
Book:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/alphabetical-diaries-sheila-heti/19994819
Lady Day of the Alhambra
Bitter Crop: is to a large extent ruined Billie, persecuted Billie, addicted Billie. A role model hymned for her feminine strength, but also someone who couldn’t see a bad choice without opening her fur-clad arms wide and inviting it home for supper. The Holiday of my opening quote—apprentice Billie, hedonistic Billie, carefree Billie—tends to be overshadowed.
by Ian Penman
The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet.
limited-edition essay collection inspired by Yancey Strickler's 2019 post, the first release from Metalabel, a new space for releasing and selling creative work.
original article:
by Yancey Strickler, May 26, 2019
https://ystrickler.com/2019/05/26/2019-the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-1/
Book:
Has anyone used this? Or know more about it?
Metalabel can be used to release creative work in all forms: physical media, digital work, experiential work, essays and ideas, provocations and invitations — whatever you wish to express. All releases on Metalabel can be made available for sale or free as a contribution to the commons.
"We Be The Humans"
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018