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New York Times bestselling author and the gaming industry's preeminent investigative journalist Jason Schreier examines three decades of ups and …
I’ve put every single thing I know about civic tech into this little book. It’s both an onboarding guide and …
“The book I wish every policymaker would read.” ― Ezra Klein, The New York Times
A bold call to reexamine …
“Kill it with fire,” the typical first reaction to a legacy system falling into obsolescence, is a knee-jerk approach that …
An engaging conversation with our most respected public intellectual around how a global Green New Deal has the potential to …
An engaging conversation with our most respected public intellectual around how a global Green New …
Short, interview style overview and discussion of the Global Green New Deal. It’s a few years old now but all the core ideas are still relevant.
‘Eloquent, insightful and utterly a must read for anyone who is inventing the future or cares about living in it.’ …
"Laura Poitras: Astro Noise" is the first solo museum exhibition by artist, filmmaker, and journalist …
Can you tell I'm catching up on Pluralistic posts? 😛
One–time professional gambler Scott Crane hasn't returned to Las Vegas, or held a hand of …
Recommended by Cory Doctorow here memex.craphound.com/2012/01/13/tim-powerss-last-call-a-mind-altering-journey-into-superstition-vegas-style/
The Overstory is a novel by Richard Powers published in 2018 by W. W. Norton …
Expansive and deeply thought provoking. Packed with ideas. I'll be thinking about this one for a long time.
My only quibble: in its mission to elucidate the eco-activist viewpoint, the book can occasionally teeter into inhabiting that viewpoint in a way that lacks nuance.
It's a book about characters who can get preachy and who see the world as divided into an awakened few and an inscrutable majority perpetuating a dangerous status quo. This all makes sense. The project of the book is helping us know these people.
However, the line between being about preachy people and being preachy is a thin one. I'd say Powers almost entirely succeeds in keeping on the right side of that line, but it's delicate work and I found myself occasionally squinting.
But then I wonder, maybe that journey of being in turns swept up in the movement and disillusioned is part of the …
Expansive and deeply thought provoking. Packed with ideas. I'll be thinking about this one for a long time.
My only quibble: in its mission to elucidate the eco-activist viewpoint, the book can occasionally teeter into inhabiting that viewpoint in a way that lacks nuance.
It's a book about characters who can get preachy and who see the world as divided into an awakened few and an inscrutable majority perpetuating a dangerous status quo. This all makes sense. The project of the book is helping us know these people.
However, the line between being about preachy people and being preachy is a thin one. I'd say Powers almost entirely succeeds in keeping on the right side of that line, but it's delicate work and I found myself occasionally squinting.
But then I wonder, maybe that journey of being in turns swept up in the movement and disillusioned is part of the point of the whole thing. I'm not sure! But this is what's going into my waffle between 4 and 5 stars.
The Overstory is a novel by Richard Powers published in 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company. It is Powers' …
Gilead is a novel written by Marilynne Robinson published in 2004. It won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and …
Draws on the author's extensive research from "Proust and the Squid" to consider the future of the reading brain and …
