"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 Sympathizer | Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47dRkhiERpE
An Excerpt from Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer
“The month in question was April, the cruelest month. It was the month in which a war that had run on for a very long time would lose its limbs, as is the way of wars.”
By Viet Thanh Nguyen
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By Cal Newport
"Newport deconstructs the absurdities inherent in standard notions of productivity, and then provides step-by-step advice for cultivating a slower, more humane alternative."
Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write.
By Dennis Yi Tenen
Review:
Book:
On Giving Up
Adam Phillips (Author)
The acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips illuminates both the gaps and the connections between the many ways of giving up and helps us to address the central question: What must we give up in order to feel more alive?
Review:
By Jennifer Szalai
Book:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/on-giving-up-adam-phillips/20168757
Jung vs Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age
By Glen Slater
Review:
Glen Slater bridges ecology, depth psychology, systems theory, and various post-Cartesian philosophies to explore how this civilizational cult has effected “a widening divide between fabrication and authenticity, a loss of more self-aware and soulful modes of living, and an increase in anxiety and depression,”
https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/03/29/jung-vs-borg/
Book
What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
Dan Levitt (Author)
Black Punk Now
Chris L. Terry (Editor)
James Spooner Spooner (Editor)
Review:
The present and future of Black punk culture.
Marc Bayard
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/black-punk-now/
Book:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/black-punk-now-chris-l-terry/19690864
Cahokia Jazz
By Francis Spufford
So far, we have the makings of a classic hardboiled, Jazz Age mystery. But the context to all this is that the city in question is Cahokia, a center of Native American culture and power that in actual history was abandoned some time in the fourteenth century,
Review:
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/03/cahokia-jazz-by-francis-spufford
Book:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/cahokia-jazz-francis-spufford/20165424
#Philosophy
#Neuroscience
#Books
(this is really a great read, download and help yourself)
The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience
By M. Chirimuuta
Interview:
https://braininspired.co/podcast/186/
Free Ebook:
What Monks Know about Focus
“A book is a tool. It’s a machine for thinking. And ‘all machines,’ as Thoreau once said, ‘have their friction.’ The time it takes to engage with ideas—whether factual or fictional, emotional or intellectual, accurate or inaccurate, efficient or inefficient—might strike some as a drag. But the time given to working through those ideas, adopting and adapting, developing or discarding, changes our minds, changes us.”
Joel J Miller
https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/jamie-kreiner-how-to-focus
Here Lies Reading
Who was the murderer? Zoomers with their smartphones in the internet room? Or is something else happening?
"I think in some respects it is impossible to dismiss that internet media is crowding out long-form reading. I think this is something people like me are inclined to do because we know that we read extensively and are not troubled but edified by the sources that the internet offers up."
Stetson
Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Natalie Dykstra (Author)
Review:
In Natalie Dykstra’s hands, the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner is a tribute to the power of art.
The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary.
Melissa Murray (Author) Andrew Weissmann (Author)
The four indictments with annotations throughout, including insider notes.
- A cast of characters, from Trump and his alleged co-conspirators.
- A timeline that brings together in one place the critical events that led to the four indictments.
A necessary handbook for anyone following the trials in 2024.
Pageboy: A Memoir
Elliot Page (Author)
Full of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, Pageboy is a love letter to the power of being seen. With this evocative and lyrical debut, Oscar-nominated star Elliot Page captures the universal human experience of searching for ourselves and our place in this complicated world.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/pageboy-a-memoir-elliot-page/18693530
One Way Back: A Memoir
Christine Blasey Ford (Author)
Review:
Without Senators in Sight, Christine Blasey Ford Retells Her Story
Her lucid memoir, “One Way Back,” describes life before, during and after she testified that Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her in high school.
By Alexandra Jacobs
Book:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/one-way-back-a-memoir-christine-blasey-ford/20598846
Liberalism and the Challenge of Climate Change
Christopher Shaw (Author)
Interview:
Liberal Blindspots
Tim Sahay
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/liberal-blindspots/
Kingdom of Play: What Ball-Bouncing Octopuses, Belly-Flopping Monkeys, and Mud-Sliding Elephants Reveal about Life Itself
David Toomey (Author)
Read excerpt:
In Animals, the Thin Line Between Play and Dreaming
Scientists are puzzled by the mysteries of both play and dreaming among animals, which may be intimately connected.
https://undark.org/2024/03/15/book-excerpt-animal-play-dreaming/
Book:
Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust In an Age of Doubt
Paul M. Sutter (Author)
Interview:
Paul M. Sutter Thinks We’re Doing Science (and Journalism) Wrong
By Dan Falk
https://undark.org/2024/03/08/interview-paul-sutter-science-trust
Book:
Science Fiction
One of the only 2 SF awards I follow, the Nebula.
SFWA Announces the Finalists for the 59th Nebula Awards
https://www.sfwa.org/2024/03/14/sfwa-announces-the-finalists-for-the-59th-nebula-awards/
SF shorts
rereading an old favorite'
The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth
Roger Zelazny
Here is a collection of strange, beautiful stories covering the full spectrum of the late Roger Zelazny's remarkable talents. He had a rare ability to mix the dream-like, disturbing imagery of fantasy with the real-life hardware of science fiction. His vivid imagination and fine prose made him one of the most highly acclaimed writers in his field.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13824.The_Doors_of_His_Face_the_Lamps_of_His_Mouth
"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