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cubicgarden

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Joined 4 years, 2 months ago

UK Non-fiction Audiobook listener/reader. Based in Manchester, UK. Social geek and fascinated with empowering the next generation of the public service internet Also go under @cubicgarden@mas.to and @cubicgarden@blacktwitter.io

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To Read (View all 78)

Bill McKibben: Here Comes the Sun (EBook)
Edgar Cabanas, Eva Illouz: Manufacturing Happy Citizens (2019, Polity Press)
Eva Illouz: Consuming the Romantic Utopia (1997, University of California Press)

Currently Reading (View all 21)

Cory Doctorow: Enshittification (Hardcover, MCD)
Brock L. Eide, Fernette F. Eide: Dyslexic Advantage (2023, Penguin Publishing Group, Plume)
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Patrick Alley: Terrible Humans

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Eva Illouz: The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations (2019, Polity)
Tim Berners-Lee: This Is for Everyone (AudiobookFormat, 2025, Pan Macmillan)
adrienne maree brown: Emergent Strategy (Paperback, 2017, AK Press)

2025 Reading Goal

92% complete! cubicgarden has read 23 of 25 books.

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reviewed The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations by Eva Illouz

Eva Illouz: The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations (2019, Polity)

The death of intimacy

Writing a book around the a similar space, I became aware of Eva's works and been meaning to listen to it. However it was seeing the actual book at a friends house which convinced me to get the audiobook. What I heard was not only powerful but had me questioning my own experience and thought patterns around love and intimacy. The examples and examinations are deep, relevant and extremely meaningful in our society right now.