recommended: not at all this was not good. it could have been about 80% shorter and still made all of its non-points. not recommended. Annotations: 0,821 SHA-256 b55c5d733a45a1567b4087fea8ed2c9e @steve ulrich [email protected]: 679,28 …
notes bookshop link recommended: highly this kept cropping up in the stuff i’ve been reading over the past couple of months. i figured it was time to dig into this again. i read this last in the 1990s. the book holds up extremely well and the mass suspension of critical thought and utopian dystopia it describes seems like something we’ve done a great job of slipping into ever more firmly over the past 10 years....
notes bookshop link recommended: yes i picked this up at the local author’s event at the fitger’s bookstore last month. it meanders a bit but pulls you through on an interesting collection of incidents and stories. there are some interesting nuggets in here around the media’s handling of wilderness incidents, cautionary notes re: planning and stories of folks who just weren’t wired for society. oh, and wolves. (just kinda)
notes bookshop link recommended: yes because i’m a sucker for pretty much all things KSR. this was a fun read, pulpy in all of its 1990s aspects with an interesting take on the fictional internet and wrist phones. there’s an interesting meta discussion in here about the relationships between scientists/elites, politicians and the masses at large. some of it parallels the tensions and the lack of trust between the technocrats/scientists in our bureaucracy and society at large with a heaping helping of political messiness....
links, etc In Praise of Print: Why Reading Remains Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse ‹ Literary Hub i’m not sure where i dug this up. (i suspect it was via HN) it’s bang on almost all the reasons i prefer a hard book vs. kindle or reading on my ipad. (for books). worth reading. or, printing it out and reading. i’m in the middle of reading antarctica by kim stanley-robinson....