Falko wants to read Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
Needed to put this on my reading list as suggested by @blogdiva@mastodon.social
reading mostly non-fictional books to learn new stuff. But occasionally I'm reading Sci-Fi and History.
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Needed to put this on my reading list as suggested by @blogdiva@mastodon.social
Takes three pervasive infrastructures and in a simple graphic treatment breaks them down in systematic detail, in historical and social context, and prompts questioning inequities and future reconsiderations of these built systems and their relationships to our global ecological society.
Je größer aber der Bedarf für die Reduktion von Unsicherheit ist, desto stärker wird an den Überzeugungen festgehalten, desto vehementer verteidigt man sie gegen Gegenargumente und widersprechende Evidenz.
— Die Illusion der Vernunft (Page 285)
Putting this finally on my list /cc @vicgrinberg@mastodon.social
@cowboy@bookwyrm.social while the Name of the Rose is certainly more "consumable" the Pendulum blow my mind. Thats actually one of my favorites books. So dense and full of history that largely actually happened ... a masterpiece.
@cowboy@bookwyrm.social did you read "Foucaults pendulum" yet?
@noctiflux spannend. Wie dick ist das Teil? Das ursprüngliche Buch ist ja schon sehr umfangreich.
To be in favor or disgrace is to live in fear. To take the body seriously is to admit one can suffer.
What does that mean, to be in favor or disgrace is to live in fear? Favor debases: we fear to lose it, fear to win it. So to be in favor or disgrace is to live in fear.
What does that mean, to take the body seriously is to admit one can suffer? I suffer because I'm a body; if I weren't a body, how could I suffer?
The final stanza relates this to the public good and body politic, but I like these bits on their own as well
"This is How You Lose the Time War" asks the reader to perch on the shoulders of two operatives on opposing sides of a time-traveling war.
Each chapter follows "Red" or "Blue" as they scurry up and down timelines and across dimensions. The book is both sweepingly broad and extremely contained and personal.
The settings flit by, dizzying: a temple for mechanized humans, an ancient holy cave, the assassination of Caesar - each sketched with broad, emotional strokes to give the setting an aesthetic. One gets the sense that a great web of cause and effect is being constantly constructed, altered, and destroyed, without ever seeing the full picture.
Against these backdrops, the characters "Red" and "Blue" write to each other - as nemeses, then as friends, ever deeper entangled even as they demolish each other's plans and forces. The letters make up an enormous part of the experience, and …
"This is How You Lose the Time War" asks the reader to perch on the shoulders of two operatives on opposing sides of a time-traveling war.
Each chapter follows "Red" or "Blue" as they scurry up and down timelines and across dimensions. The book is both sweepingly broad and extremely contained and personal.
The settings flit by, dizzying: a temple for mechanized humans, an ancient holy cave, the assassination of Caesar - each sketched with broad, emotional strokes to give the setting an aesthetic. One gets the sense that a great web of cause and effect is being constantly constructed, altered, and destroyed, without ever seeing the full picture.
Against these backdrops, the characters "Red" and "Blue" write to each other - as nemeses, then as friends, ever deeper entangled even as they demolish each other's plans and forces. The letters make up an enormous part of the experience, and they are comic, intimate... poignant. I didn't give a damn about the war - I just wanted these two characters to be alright.
I loved it. I stayed up past midnight every day I was reading, which wasn't long because I had to see what came next and kept reading.
Because of det.social/@t_matam_t/110627825853103872
This sounds interesting /cc @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
Was bedeutes es eigentlich, erwachsen zu sein, und wie kann man ein sinnvolleres stressfreieres Leben führen?
David Foster Wallace zeigt …
Das klingt nach einem sehr schönen Buch für K3 /cc @sasastanisic@chaos.social