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Dinto

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Dinto's books

Shaohua Guo: Evolution of the Chinese Internet (2020, Stanford University Press)

Without anti-china reductionism, a great tour of the Chinese Internet and its social networks

How the Internet arrives to the Asian giant; BBS; Weibo; Wechat, and the participation of influencers, the state and millions of users. How all these elements participated in molding what is now a gigantic cultural and commercial space, but at the same time unknown to many of us.

Josh Davila: Blockchain Radicals (2023, Watkins Media Limited)

Blockchain Radicals uncovers the radical political potential of the blockchain, showing how it can be …

The non-cryptobro side of blockchain

I found much more interesting the first half of the book. There are deep thoughts about fundamentals of blockchain. Second half is good too, a tour of different projects that is distanced from the mainstream merchant discourse of technology. This allows to know a world away from the dumb ancap libertarian perspective

Naomi Klein: Doppelganger (2023, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who …

Of the best books to understand 2020

The book elaborates a very complete connection between the processes that came prior to 2020 and the post covid society. There are not many books that explore reflections on what happened to the pandemic and its repercussions on social processes of a world that had already been dragging its sorrows (already seen in Klein's previous books)

Herbert Marcuse: El hombre unidimensional (Spanish language, 1990, Ariel)

One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society is a 1964 book by …

Carácter afirmativo de la cultura

Desarrollo de lo esbozado en el texto "El carácter afirmativo de la cultura". No solo se estructura todo un sistema de pensamiento sino que se extiende por diferentes dimensiones (social, política, económica, individual, etc.). Obligatorio para comprender aspectos sociales de "Occidente" desde la Guerra Fría hasta estos días.