@saintlennybruce.bsky.social 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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Use of Weapons
Iain M. Banks@saintlennybruce.bsky.social@zoecello China Miéville, “Perdido Street Station” not sure if “The Use of Weapons” is too dark, but Iain M. Banks, “Excession” is also a great first Culture novel Also, enjoyed Hesse, “The Glass Bead Game” and “Siddartha” as an early teen
Paperback, 2008
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Artificial Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction
Margaret A. Boden@saintlennybruce.bsky.social@norvid_studies @PsychEnjoyer @IrisVanRooij Try Boden, “Mind As Machine: A History of Cognitive Science” (OUP) (or her “Artificial Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction” for a précis) on the history of AI as a model of natural intelligence, if Prof. Rooij’s work is too technical. Outlines computational complexity issues
Paperback, 2018
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Sherry Turkle@saintlennybruce.bsky.social@wagatwe feel like Sherry Turkle’s “Alone Together” and “Reclaiming Conversation” got unfairly dismissed at the time, when they actually made some nuanced points about how our fundamental need for human connection is rerouted into behavioral addiction, quite intentionally
Paperback, 2016
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Excession
Iain Banks@saintlennybruce.bsky.social@zoecello China Miéville, “Perdido Street Station” not sure if “The Use of Weapons” is too dark, but Iain M. Banks, “Excession” is also a great first Culture novel Also, enjoyed Hesse, “The Glass Bead Game” and “Siddartha” as an early teen
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Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education
Henry A. Giroux@saintlennybruce.bsky.social@ThouArtThat Henry Giroux’s career has been spent studying related questions. Saw “Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education” was out in 2nd Ed. The late Stanley Aronowitz, “The Knowledge Factory”, was also a very clear exposition.
Paperback, 2019
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America
Barbara Ehrenreich@saintlennybruce.bsky.social@TheDuhalde Maybe a good year to reread the late Barbara Ehrenreich‘s „Bright-Sided“, may her memory be a blessing. She certainly understood how denialism is entirely about extracting our labor for owners’ profits, only to discard our broken bodies as soon as there is none left. 🤨
Paperback, 2010
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Perdido Street Station
China Miéville@saintlennybruce.bsky.social@zoecello China Miéville, “Perdido Street Station” not sure if “The Use of Weapons” is too dark, but Iain M. Banks, “Excession” is also a great first Culture novel Also, enjoyed Hesse, “The Glass Bead Game” and “Siddartha” as an early teen
Paperback, 2001
$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder
V. I. Lenin@saintlennybruce.bsky.social@abenanav @prouns_ Not in New DSA, no, it’s just Lenin, “Left-Wing Communism” Just as with “Materialism and Empirio-Criticism”, but without even having read Pannekoek, “Lenin als Philosoph” Not even Yakhot, “The Suppression of Philosophy in the USSR”, which illuminates Lenin’s contradictory pivot
Paperback, 2018
$4.99$2.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning
Stanley Aronowitz@saintlennybruce.bsky.social@ThouArtThat Henry Giroux’s career has been spent studying related questions. Saw “Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education” was out in 2nd Ed. The late Stanley Aronowitz, “The Knowledge Factory”, was also a very clear exposition.
Paperback, 2007
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Sherry Turkle@saintlennybruce.bsky.social@wagatwe feel like Sherry Turkle’s “Alone Together” and “Reclaiming Conversation” got unfairly dismissed at the time, when they actually made some nuanced points about how our fundamental need for human connection is rerouted into behavioral addiction, quite intentionally
Paperback, 2017
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book