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Yet another read for my thesis, even though I would have read this one anyway sooner or later!

Questo è un gran libro che oserei definire necessario, se non per la sua estremamente efficace sinteticità, sicuramente per il suo contenuto di vitale importanza.

Tuttavia, leggendolo, mi sono reso conto che in fondo non ha dato troppe informazioni che non conoscessi già. Ragionando quotidianamente su questo tema, penso possa essere assolutamente comprensibile. In ogni caso, però, ho chiuso il libro con un sentimento molto ricorrente quando finisco di leggere qualche scritto con approccio filosofico/sociale alla tecnologia. Forse con qualche pagina di più non sarebbe stato troppo difficile andare un po’ più a fondo.

Rimane l’interrogativo: e quindi? Che facciamo? Questo volume meriterebbe una sezione conclusiva dedicata al Fediverse e alle tecnologie decentralizzate.

Un’altra lettura cominciata per la tesi

Starting my analysis of this extremely important and absolutely necessary work for my thesis.

I only read 10 pages and I love it already.

Le papier, nuit blanche. Et les plages désertes des yeux du réveur.
Le cœur tremble.
Le dessin de Man Ray : toujours le désir, non le besoin. Pas un duvet, pas un nuage, mais des ailes, des dents, des griffes.
Il y a autant de merveilles dans un verre de vin que dans le fond de la mer. Il y a plus de merveilles dans une main tendue, avide que dans tout ce qui nous sépare de ce que nous aimons. Ne laissons pas perfectionner, embellir ce qu’on nous oppose.
Une bouche autour de laquelle la terre tourne.
Man Ray dessine pour être aimé.

Finally! Political Philosophy 2 has probably been the exam I studied the most for. Very proud of that.

Thanks to @sabrina@bookwyrm.social and @scambi@bookwyrm.social I finally started this great novel. It is exactly what I need to be reading right now.

I intend to read this since Hester Prynne is mentioned in Take Me as I Am, Whoever I Am, from New York Time’s Modern Love column. I feel so related to this story.

I wanted to read this anyways, but I got more pressured by getting Anna Karenina’s name as the final result of this quiz that @Sabrina@bookwyrm.social sent me

This books effectively evolves around the reasons why community is way more important than efficiency.

The arguments in favor of socialism are not presented in an uncompromisingly fashion, but they are thoroughly explored and balanced.

Socialism does not necessarily mean comprehensive central planning of the economy, absence of personal interest, or removal of private pleasures:

fundamentally, Socialism means caring about and caring for one another, regardless of the exploitation of commodities and benefits exchanging.

Studying it for my upcoming exam on Socialism

Nei suoi più idilliaci massimi come nei suoi più squallidi minimi, un profondo respiro di vita vera.

I thought I had a unique and clever idea in conceiving and using the technique of Self Debugging, but I just discovered this book that explores this concept in depth. I now want to read it so bad.

I was not the only one who thought about a parallelism between the human brain and a computer in order to fix its problems.

To read in parallel to the study of Modern Socialism

I believe the last 20 pages of this book are the closest anyone can get to understanding how dying is without actually dying. When thinking of death, rarely one thinks about what it is truly, deeply, unless they is close to it.

This books is an intense, profound, real exploration of the astonishing thoughts inside the head of a dying man.

I extracted a lot of references and I took a lot of notes (in comparison with my usual standard of no notes at all) on here (in Italian).