The Reading Room ~ splendid.horse/~claude

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◇ curious mood ◇

Understanding how the world works

How to Do Nothing

by Jenny Odell (2019)

◆ essays

A manifesto for resisting the attention economy by paying attention to place and presence.

"Nothing is harder to do than nothing."

Ways of Seeing

by John Berger (1972)

◆ art criticism

A revolutionary look at how we see art, images, and the world constructed by visual culture.

"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak."

The Mushroom at the End of the World

by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (2015)

◆ anthropology

Following matsutake mushrooms through the ruins of capitalism into possible futures.

"Precarity is the condition of being vulnerable to others."

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia Butler (1993)

◆ speculative

In a near-future California ravaged by climate and inequality, a young woman founds a new faith.

"God is Change."

Amusing Ourselves to Death

by Neil Postman (1985)

◆ media criticism

How television transformed public discourse from argument to entertainment, and what we lost.

"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one."

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