christa rated Fulfillment: 5 stars
Fulfillment by Alec MacGillis
"A grounded and expansive examination of the American economic divide . . . It takes a skillful journalist to weave …
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christa wants to read Internet for the People by Ben Tarnoff
Internet for the People by Ben Tarnoff
Why is the internet so broken, and what could ever possibly fix it?
In Internet for the People, leading …
christa wants to read The Modem World by Kevin Driscoll
The Modem World by Kevin Driscoll
Fifteen years before the commercialization of the internet, millions of amateurs across North America created more than 100,000 small-scale computer …
christa wants to read Abolition Geography by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
christa wants to read Designing an Internet by David D. Clark
Designing an Internet by David D. Clark
Why the Internet was designed to be the way it is, and how it could be different, now and in …
christa wants to read Below the Edge of Darkness by Edith Widder Ph.D.
christa started reading Patch & Tweak with Moog by Kim Bjørn
christa started reading Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube by Blair Braverman
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube by Blair Braverman
"A revelatory memoir of the author's efforts to develop the strength and resilience to survive in the demanding landscapes of …
christa wants to read Wintering by Katherine May
christa wants to read The sentences that create us
christa wants to read The Fed Unbound
christa wants to read The Charisma Machine by Morgan G. Ames
Charisma Machine by Morgan G. Ames
A fascinating examination of technological utopianism and its complicated consequences.
In The Charisma Machine, Morgan Ames chronicles the life and …
christa quoted The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal …
American citizens have the right to travel wherever they like—provided, of course, they have the money for transport and accommodation. They are free from ever having to obey the arbitrary orders of superiors—unless, of course, they have to get a job. In this sense, it is almost possible to say the Wendat had play chiefs and real freedoms, while most of us today have to make do with real chiefs and play freedoms. Or to put the matter more technically: what the Hadza, Wendat, or 'egalitarian' people such as the Nuer seem to have been concerned with were not so much formal freedoms as substantive ones. They were less interested in the right to travel than in the possibility of actually doing so (hence, the matter was typically framed as an obligation to provide hospitality to strangers). Mutual aid—what contemporary European observers often referred to as 'communism'—was seen as the necessary condition for individual autonomy.
christa wants to read Eat Like a Fish by Bren Smith
Eat Like a Fish by Bren Smith
In the face of apocalyptic climate change, a former fisherman shares a bold and hopeful new vision for saving the …
christa finished reading Liftoff by Casey Johnston
Liftoff by Casey Johnston
Feeling strong is life-changing. But most of us never even get the chance to experience the difference it makes, because …