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I make things on the internet and do weird research on digital waste, infrastructure, care and ontology. @mistertim@assemblag.es is my usual fediverse home.
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mistertim rated Exhalation: 5 stars
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
This much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In The …
mistertim rated How the World Thinks: 5 stars
mistertim rated Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene: 5 stars
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna J. Haraway
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our …
mistertim rated The Myth of Sisyphus (Penguin Modern Classics): 5 stars
mistertim rated Homenaje a Cataluña: 5 stars
Homenaje a Cataluña by George Orwell
Sin duda uno de los libros más importantes del siglo XX. Una obra clave sobre la guerra civil española por …
mistertim rated Agent Running in the Field: 5 stars
Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré
Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He …
mistertim rated Bullshit Jobs: 3 stars
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber that argues the existence and societal harm of …
mistertim rated The Divided Self: 4 stars
The Divided Self by R. D. Laing
In The Divided Self (1960), Laing contrasted the experience of the "ontologically secure" person with that of a person who …
mistertim rated Modern Nature: 5 stars
mistertim rated Introduction to psychotherapy: 4 stars
mistertim rated Out of the Woods: 5 stars
The fall by Albert Camus (Vintage international)
Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance …
K-Punk by Mark Fisher
Fisher died in January 2017, but his writings —on his blog K-Punk, in publications such as The Wire and in …