Gabriella "Biella" Coleman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Prof @HarvardAnthro works on sci+tech+med// Faculty Associate @BKCHarvard // Curator of @HackCurio (https://t.co/yvPUfhD0YR)// Board member of @torproject & dog lover.

Plastic Reason: An Anthropology of Brain Science in Embryogenetic Terms
Tobias Rees
Another wonderful example is in @tobias_rees wonderful book Plastic Reason. The featured scientist who worked on the malleability of the brain was ridiculed in his native France. ihttps://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520288133/plastic-reason
Paperback, 2016
$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Long Covid: Examining Long-Term Health Effects of Covid-19 and Implications for the Social Security Administration: Proceedings of a Workshop
National Academies of Sciences Engineeri
Proud signatory. It may be hard to relate #LongCovid if you've never experienced something similar but you can peer into this world here: search the hashtag here & read for yourself. Learn from those most impacted (something the author of the @newrepublic failed to do) https://t.co/sCWl2ORffE
Paperback, 2022
$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny
Susan Lepselter
Or take another dynamic. Susan Lepselter argues the "resonance of unseen things" is what drives a lot of conspiracy thinking/feeling (this was prior to the internet). This logic is still very present but then you add to see these unseen things via data visualizations 7/ https://t.co/ivQSoEea1Q
Paperback, 2016
$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Listener's Voice: Early Radio and the American Public
Elena Razlogova
@moiragweigel The Listener's Voice: Early Radio and the American Public (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) [probably an earlier era but still great book/background]
Hardcover, 2011
$44.95$22.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Gift
Marcel Mauss
@ievaju @BrownAnthro @AmericanAnthro I'd love to see this when you are done! I will say that I think Marcel Mauss' the Gift is truly brilliant and he captures a dynamic of connection and indebtedness that almost everyone can relate to, esp academics!
Paperback, 2016
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Social Engineering: How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulative Communication
Robert W. Gehl
@HBWHBWHBW @ystvns @_Ryan_Ellis The work of @seanlawson and Robert Gehl https://t.co/gaheOECka8 (and their new book on social engineering may be useful) but Sean has been doing critical security studies now for a decade.
Paperback, 2022
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Impure Science: Aids, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge Volume 7
Steven Epstein
@CovidCastaways Watch how to Survive a Plague and read the books by Steven Epstein Impure Science for the answers. Tl;dr: organizing and direct action
Paperback, 1998
$33.95$16.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Century of Repression: The Espionage ACT and Freedom of the Press
Ralph Engelman
Title: A Century of Repression The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press
Paperback, 2022
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book