Jason Read Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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This week's episode of Hotel Bar Sessions is on Attention and Distraction. We discuss Yves Citton's The Ecology of Attention, Tim Wu's The Attention Merchants, Zeynep Tufekci's Twitter and Tear Gas. https://t.co/0RHLjD94Y8

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I finished Sue Burke’s Interference last night. I thought that it was an odd ending for what is referred to as a “duology,” but it turns out the third book in the trilogy is coming out next month. https://t.co/64W3Ikf1uj

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Why the hell is Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order out of print? It is not only a classic, it is incredibly relevant to our current moral panic over crime. Someone get on that.

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Since your new years' eve plans have been (hopefully) cancelled why not watch Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother you and then listen to this episode where I talk about the film with the hosts of Hotel Bar Podcast. If you can't be social, be parasocial. https://t.co/aEWkEKakLm

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Plato’s Republic is not just about the philosopher cop but about how how work is the cop of society:, https://t.co/UNw8qwiQyx

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Remember in 2012 when Marvel Comics settled with Jack Kirby's heirs just before The Avengers came out? I am convinced that the terms of that closed deal must have included making a film of his pet project The Eternals because there is no other reason for that film to exist.

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This is a picture my mom took of me before I left for graduate school, reading Wild Seed by Octavia Butler, Spinoza's Theological Political Treatise nearby, and a box of records with Howlin' Wolf on top. I have gotten older but I really have not changed. https://t.co/LF3VLmxUGs

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I got a chance to read Johanna Isaacson's Stepford Daughters and I think that raises the bar on not only writing about horror, but on how horror movies can make it possible to see the horrors of daily life. https://t.co/7jQ0mce9OX

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"In the so-called 'gig economy," for instance, workers are denied all of the rights afforded an employee but given none of the freedoms of an independent contractor." Phil Jones, Work Without the Worker @VersoBooks

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@classreductress @leftofphil @martinhaegglund Real Marx writing his critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right during his Honeymoon in 1843 energy.