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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.

Timothy Snyder: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (2018, Tim Duggan Books)

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America is a 2018 book by Timothy Snyder. In …

Ilyin, Putin, the world

A historical overview of some lines of thought of sectors of power in present-day Russia. The book draws elements so clearly that, though developing them in the Russian case, it allows us to extrapolate them to understand contemporary movements and leaders in Europe and America.

Yanis Varoufakis: El minotauro global (Paperback, 2015, DEBOLSILLO, Debolsillo)

Buena divulgación del mundo financiero del último siglo

Si bien es reiterativo con algunas ideas en un par de capítulos, el paneo general de la macroeconomía estadounidense (y consecuentemente de la global) a lo largo de los últimos 100 años está muy bien sintetizado. Además, el desarrollo deja puntas que permiten entender y comprender aspectos geopolíticos de los años descriptos.

Buen libro para entender sobre todo el crash del 2008, pero también los procesos que llevaron a este.

Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own (Hardcover, 2018, Bibliotech Press)

Mandatory reading for anyone who likes to explore the world of literature

Great theoretical framework of the author, since it is a general panorama to the thought that will be seen later in texts like Orlando A fundamental text to understand the role of women in areas such as literature and arts, in addition to an important influence on women's feminisms and movements.