Andy K S wants to read Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang
Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang
Note about the author: The author is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns in English.
"A brilliant and empathetic guide to …
Media studies grad student working on a history of radio automation between 1950 and 2010. Somehow, consequently, getting interested in 19th century stuff. Also rivers/currents/streams.
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Note about the author: The author is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns in English.
"A brilliant and empathetic guide to …
The Turn of the Screw is a novella (short novel) written by Henry James. Originally published in 1898, it is …
I have John Peters's Speaking into the Air to thank for getting interested in the 19th c American pragmatist camp, so maybe it was inevitable that I'd think the first Henry James I've read was about communication. But I also do think that's the main thing going on in this story. Communication is variously too hard to do, too hard to prevent others from doing, an easy out to be avoided, and/or a mortal danger. Crucially (and again I don't think this is just because I've been writing about the under-coverage of class in Peters's media theory) it's always communication across class difference that causes real terror.
The prose style is, sometimes annoyingly but also compellingly, marked by long strings of short parenthetical phrases; it's often tough to parse, and it aids the impression that the narrator sees words/ideas as chess pieces that all have to be moved in just …
I have John Peters's Speaking into the Air to thank for getting interested in the 19th c American pragmatist camp, so maybe it was inevitable that I'd think the first Henry James I've read was about communication. But I also do think that's the main thing going on in this story. Communication is variously too hard to do, too hard to prevent others from doing, an easy out to be avoided, and/or a mortal danger. Crucially (and again I don't think this is just because I've been writing about the under-coverage of class in Peters's media theory) it's always communication across class difference that causes real terror.
The prose style is, sometimes annoyingly but also compellingly, marked by long strings of short parenthetical phrases; it's often tough to parse, and it aids the impression that the narrator sees words/ideas as chess pieces that all have to be moved in just the right order. I'm curious to read more James and see if that style is particular to this story.
This book offers the first detailed intellectual history of communication study, from its beginnings in late nineteenth-century critiques of corporate …
Artistic labour was exemplary for Utopian Socialist theories of 'attractive labour', and Marxist theories of 'nonalienated labour', but the rise …
In 1839, Thoreau and his brother took a small boat upriver and back. Some years later, while in his cabin …
The Turn of the Screw is a novella (short novel) written by Henry James. Originally published in 1898, it is …