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It's been twenty years and two election cycles since "Information," a powerful search engine monopoly, …
Very fun while also being incisive. Looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
I really like where the conclusion ended up—so much so that I wish the rest of the book had woven the idea of "distributed cognition" in more fully. I've got a few other critiques, but overall I think this is a really valuable book for thinking about information and for thinking about how we might use tools like AI.
Leer en español nivel 4 / Reading level 4 adaptation. Comes with an audio CD.
I read this for my second-year Spanish courses and was surprised by how much enjoyed it. There's more sensitivity to indigenous / colonial topics than I expected… although I admit that my bar was on the floor regarding those. I'd be interested to eventually read the original, un-adapted novel—and well as to learn whether this influenced the 1980s/1990s cartoon I vaguely remembered titled something like "City of Gold" that might have been on Nickelodeon.
The Land of Open Graves is a book by anthropologist Jason De León with photographs by Michael Wells. The book …
The Land of Open Graves is a book by anthropologist Jason De León with photographs …
One of the best books I've read in years.
Actually I want to re-read this, having read it about 10 years ago. I remember it being excellent for discussing how the current narrative of the late-1960s uprisings having been mostly university-affiliated young adults profoundly misrepresents the broad coalition behind the uprisings. This story of how generational narratives mislead us seems very pertinent to the continual intergenerational tensions repeated throughout current lazy media.
An approachable, insightful book that makes excellent connections between related struggles as well as important distinctions between different types of feminism.
