abekonge (bookwyrm) started reading In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
Leigh's upbringing in Rotterdam revolved around her fascination with the waterfront, which served as a …
Sooo good.
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abekonge (bookwyrm) started reading Mutual causality in Buddhism and general systems theory by Joanna Macy (SUNY series in Buddhist studies)
Been circling Joanna Macy for some years. Danish libraries had only this. But my god it is smack in my research question: how does things change. Starts with such a nice thing: power works from below.
abekonge (bookwyrm) rated Staying with the Trouble: 5 stars
Staying with the Trouble by Donna J. Haraway
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our …
abekonge (bookwyrm) rated The Divide: 5 stars
The Divide by Jason Hickel
· The richest eight people control more wealth than the poorest half of the world combined.
· Today, 60 per …
abekonge (bookwyrm) rated Thinking in systems: 5 stars
Thinking in systems by Donella H. Meadows, Diana Wright
Meadows’ Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from …
abekonge (bookwyrm) rated A Closed and Common Orbit: 4 stars
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #2)
Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - possessing a personality and very …
abekonge (bookwyrm) rated The Internet Con: 3 stars
The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow
When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us …
abekonge (bookwyrm) rated Doughnut Economics: 5 stars
Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist is a 2017 non-fiction book by Oxford economist Kate Raworth. …
abekonge (bookwyrm) reviewed The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow
When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their …
Misleading title
3 stars
While being a very concise walk though of the systemic nature of the problems of big tech, I found the title: "How to seize the means of computation" and the blurb: "A Shovel-Ready Plan to Fight Enshittification" to lead me to expect some activist-first analysis. Instead it's "solutions" are very much recommendation to congress or government level policy-types. There is nothing in it that tells me what to do. I have nothing against this - the title and the blurb is just misleading. The analysis is very good though. So if you don't already know Doctorows analysis, it's great. Just don't expect any shovels to grab.
abekonge (bookwyrm) wants to read Hacking Capitalism by Kris Nóva
Inspired by wanting to see Kris' talk at FosDem23 ....
abekonge (bookwyrm) wants to read The Real World of Technology by Ursula M. Franklin
“The struggle to understand and steer the interaction between the bitsphere and the biosphere is the struggle for community in the broadest ecological context.” Ursula M. Franklin, The Real World of Technology (1989)
abekonge (bookwyrm) started reading Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans …
read 1/3 a couple of years ago before i had to return it to the library, got it for my birthday, started again.
I've since read 1/2 of The Dawn of Everything, which I also immensely enjoyed, and was influenced by in my political outlook.
abekonge (bookwyrm) rated Cybernetic Revolutionaries: 4 stars
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
In Cybernetic Revolutionaries, Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological. The first …
abekonge (bookwyrm) rated Braiding Sweetgrass: 5 stars
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As …
abekonge (bookwyrm) rated Project Hail Mary: 5 stars
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission–and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will …