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Researcher in the streets, sleepless in the sheets. Video games pay my mortgage.

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Derrick Jensen: The Culture of Make Believe (2004, Chelsea Green)
Brian Merchant: Blood in the Machine (Hardcover, 2023, Little Brown & Company)
William Gibson, William F. Gibson: Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3) (Paperback, 2017, GOLLANCZ)

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Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent (2002, Pantheon Books)
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Talbot, David: The devil's chessboard (2015)
Milo Sweedler: Allegories of the End of Capitalism (2020, Hunt Publishing Limited, John)

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Mervyn Peake: The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy (2011, Overlook Press, Harry N. Abrams, Abrams Books)
Clark, Christopher: Revolutionary Spring (2023, Crown Publishing Group, The, Crown)
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Alfie Kohn: The Homework Myth (Paperback, 2007, Da Capo Lifelong Books)

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28% complete! Lucas has read 15 of 53 books.

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reviewed Running Dog by Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo: Running Dog (Paperback, 1989, Vintage) 3 stars

A thriller at first, then…

3 stars

There's a lot of Running Dog that moves because of desire and acquisitiveness, but its last third is more about showing this all to be a weird, self-referential way of holding yourself up against the inevitability of death? Consumerism and sex and conspiracy all ways to make a second self that is humble and domesticated and liked by others, that can inhabit the same body shooting downward into oblivion (and sometimes taking as many others as it can along with it).

Dunno if I liked it, but it was interesting. DeLillo's novels now more, uh, samey? consonant? with one another to me.

quoted Running Dog by Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo: Running Dog (Paperback, 1989, Vintage) 3 stars

"When technology reaches a certain level, people begin to feel like criminals," he said. "Someone is after you, the computers maybe, the machine-police. You can't escape investigation. The facts about you and your whole existence have been collected or are being collected. Banks, insurance companies, credit organizations, tax examiners, passport offices, reporting services, police agencies, intelligence gatherers. It's a little like what I was saying before. Devices make us pliant. If they issue a print-out saying we're guilty, then we're guilty. But it goes even deeper, doesn't it? It's the presence alone, the very fact, the superabundance of technology, that makes us feel we're committing crimes. Just the fact that these things exist at this widespread level. The processing machines, the scanners, the sorters. That's enough to make us feel like criminals. What enormous weight, What complex programs. And there's no one to explain it to us."

— Running Dog by  (Page 95)