Just Finished Bill McKibben - Deep Economy, a musch more academically rigorous, less hysterical more grounded in economy theory version of No Logo.
Just Starting a Biography of Georges Doriot called Creative Capital by Spencer E. Ante.
Possibly City of Quartz is next up because I'll be visiting LA in a few weeks.
― Ed, Monday, 30 June 2008 13:05 (seventeen years ago)
The last non-fic I read was Masters Of Doom, a history of Id Software.
― Forest Pines Mk2, Monday, 30 June 2008 13:12 (seventeen years ago)
also on the pile Tsukiji: the fish market at the center of the world By Theodore C. Bestor.
― Ed, Monday, 30 June 2008 16:15 (seventeen years ago)
I just finished Lee Smolin's "The Trouble With Physics", which was preceded by DeTocqueville's "Democracy in America" (which I'd never read in its entirety - actually my favorite parts were his essays, "Two Weeks in the Wilderness", that was some crazy shit)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 30 June 2008 16:18 (seventeen years ago)
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges, a former war correspondent for the NY Times. I highly recommend this book; as a wise band once put it, that's powerful stuff.
― Euler, Monday, 30 June 2008 16:33 (seventeen years ago)
i>variations on a theme park: the new american city and the end of public space. a 1992 book of essays i was very happy to find last week used. i think there is an essay by mike davis, who wrote city of quartz but i have not gotten that far yet.
so far, this book is great! right now, i'm part way through a fantastic essay on the use of the frontier myth in gentrification, i.e. the inner city is the new american frontier.
― derrrick, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 08:34 (seventeen years ago)
Sounds like my cup of tea, I may add that to the tottering mountain of unread earnest tomes.
― Ed, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 09:02 (seventeen years ago)
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― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 09:02 (seventeen years ago)
City of Quartz is Davis best book I think. Since then he's been going off the point a bit.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 09:03 (seventeen years ago)
Rick Perlstein - Nixonland The Portable Atheist
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 12:34 (seventeen years ago)
ivan illich - deschooling society + tools for conviviality
― artdamages, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 13:41 (seventeen years ago)