"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
( my dad said: "this is where it all went wrong.")
Otto Neurath’s Modern Man in the Making (1939) and Scientific Management
"Abandoning theology and enlightenment liberalism, he even went so far as to propose an ethics modeled on an extrapolation of Scientific Management which would take the form of the extension of convention and habit into new forms of life."
By Michael J. Golec
https://nonsite.org/otto-neuraths-modern-man-in-the-making-1939-and-scientific-management/
R.I.P.
Mike Davis: 1946–2022
A brilliant radical reporter with a novelist’s eye and a historian’s memory.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mike-davis-obituary/
Books:
Podcast
How the American Government Crushed the IWW
It’s a highly accessible labor history that does a bunch of important things. First, it gets at just why workers chose the IWW over other forms of socialism at the time. Second, it goes very deep on the real physical suffering these people had to deal with for their convictions and just how awful the entire structure of order was to workers.
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2022/10/lgm-podcast-violence-and-the-iww
Book
The big idea: is cooperation always a force for good?
What looks like altruism through one lens could be seen as corruption through another.
"And so we are forced to confront a possibly uncomfortable truth: cooperation is, at heart, a means by which entities – be they genes, cells or individuals – improve their own position in the world."
By Nichola Raihani
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/24/the-big-idea-is-cooperation-always-a-force-for-good
Book:
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a review of:
Birds and Us: A 12,000-Year History from Cave Art to Conservation
By Tim Birkhead
Feathered and Feather-Less Bipeds
Considering a genealogy of birds.
Jesse Russell
https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/feathered-and-feather-less-bipeds
Book:
( ... There is a lot of Bad News floating around this week. So why not read some books that uplift your curiosity about the future.)
I have written about these books a few times before. Yet I can't praise then enough. No the future does NOT have to be a dystopia, nor a utopia, but a work in progress. The institutions that last will be the ones between humans, for humans, by humans.
Monk and Robot Series
By Becky Chambers
On October 21, author Khadija Abdalla Bajaber received the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for her debut novel, The House of Rust. Her book was on the short list announced this July; actor and author Anthony Rapp hosted a virtual event on Friday announcing the news.
Book
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-house-of-rust-khadija-abdalla-bajaber/15911474
America and the Promised Land
In exploring how the idea and reality of Israel have shaped American politics, Mead seeks to correct many of the ahistorical, apolitical, reductive, and anti-Semitic arguments that often appear in US foreign-policy debates.
By Ivan Krastev. Leonard Benardo
book
a review of:
Mussolini's Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
By Caroline Moorehead
A painstaking portrait of the Duce’s daughter.
She was at the centre of power, but was almost powerless. “That is the tragedy of the children of great men,” wrote one contemporary observer of Edda. “They are either imitations or wretched wanderers.”
By Tobias Jones
Book:
Book Review: The Power of Pondering the Future
“The Invention of Tomorrow” explores the transformative human power to envision the future and its evolutionary impact.
In the end, though, there seems to be little point in arguing about whether mental time travel is a uniquely human ability, or whether nonhuman animals can do it to some modest degree.
By Dan Falk
https://undark.org/2022/10/21/book-review-the-power-of-pondering-the-future/
Book:
a review of:
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
By Sean Carroll
To give readers something of the mathematical essence which, after all, is how physics is done. To accomplish this goal he proposes a novel approach.
to become a practicing physicist, a student must not only learn the equations and their meanings, but they must also spend untold hours solving the equations
https://bigthink.com/13-8/biggest-ideas-universe-sean-carroll-book-review/
Book:
Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker prize for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
“it’s a book that takes the reader on a rollercoaster journey through life and death right to what the author describes as the dark heart of the world”.
“And there the reader finds, to their surprise, joy, tenderness, love and loyalty,”
Surplus
Excerpted from Health Communism
"To the SSA, illness is only relevant in relation to whether and to what degree it impacts a person’s capacity to work.
This presumes that ill-health, disability, and impairment are located only in the body and not also in the broader social, political, and geographical context that comprises the individual’s social determinants of health."
By Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant
https://thenewinquiry.com/surplus/
Book
https://bookshop.org/p/books/health-communism-a-surplus-manifesto-beatrice-adler-bolton/18095717
In Idiots & Robots, Kristin Hooker raises and answers several very important questions, including:
• Are there demons?
• Can demons possess robots?
• If a company developed robots that were capable of replacing most of the workforce, would the executives of said company stop there, or would make it worse?
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2022/10/its-a-trap
Book:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/idiots-and-robots-kristin-hooker/15993248
a review of:
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
Patrick House (Author)
What Is It Like to Have a Brain?
Drawing from science fiction and scientific journals, from historical episodes and his own experience, House paints a picture of a field that is at once chaotic and controlled. “Neuroscience is a frustrating field to be in,”
By Henry M. Cowles
Book
https://bookshop.org/p/books/nineteen-ways-of-looking-at-consciousness-patrick-house/17855743
Cooking with Taeko Kōno
The Japanese writer Taeko Kōno is a maestro of transgressive desire whose stories often—and deliciously—use food as a metaphor for sexual appetite. Kōno, who died in 2015, is considered one of Japan’s foremost feminist writers and one of its foremost writers of any kind.
By Valerie Stivers
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/10/13/cooking-with-taeko-kono/#more-161987
I just finished reading this...
Great fun, and much better than I expected.
The Spare Man.
The Thin Man in Space — That’s what The Spare Man is. Not the novel by Dashiel Hammet, mind you, but the films that follow Nick and Nora Charles as played by William Powell and Myrna Loy. I adore these films.
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2022/10/17/the-big-idea-mary-robinette-kowal-6/
Book
https://bookshop.org/books/the-spare-man-093f0afd-c7b8-483d-911b-353fe1783e0f/9781250829177
Book Excerpt: It’s Not Just Humans at Risk From Covid-19
To believe the coronavirus was engineered to target humans is to ignore its broad capacity for infecting other animals.
In February 2020, days after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global public health emergency, a woman in Beijing, China holds her dog while they both wear protective masks.
https://undark.org/2022/10/14/book-excerpt-its-not-just-humans-at-risk-from-covid-19/
Book
There is an exhibit at the Frye Museum in Seattle that is opening today (October 15): The Third, Meaning: ESTAR(SER).
https://fryemuseum.org/exhibitions/third-meaning-estarser-installs-frye-collection
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In Search Of The Third Bird
Exemplary Essays from The Proceedings of ESTAR(SER), 2001-2021
D. Graham Burnett (Editor), Catherine L. Hansen (Editor), Justin E. H. Smith (Editor)
The real history of the covey of attention-artists who call themselves "The Birds."
( after talking to a philosophy grad student, on some related topics, I was recommended these two books. Now ordered from my local bookstore.)
Thought y'all might be interested.
Transformative Experience
L. A. Paul (Author)
https://bookshop.org/p/books/transformative-experience-l-a-paul/9782530
And
Epistemic Injustice
Miranda Fricker (Author)
https://bookshop.org/p/books/epistemic-injustice-miranda-fricker/9685727
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"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