Jessica Flack Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jessica Flack

A @NewYorker essential read. A @nytimes best book of the year. . . you can read more about @andrea_wulf's new book, Magnificent Rebels, at: https://t.co/jlRrFPbMj1 Her website, with more about her other award-winning books: https://t.co/secgzEbh9Q The lecture will also be… https://t.co/1jf7FzMNo7 https://t.co/dB0sMzaWVM

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Have a browse and feel yourself begin to oxidize. Every kind is here: consoling glows, cold-burnings, napalm, This weekend reading John McCullough's Spacecraft (@JohnMcCullough_). The poems are galvanic+kinetic and as mind-drawing as Emily Dickinson's. https://t.co/ZhOntbnUzH https://t.co/6RsH3cjiBM

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Bill Finnegan’s Pulitzer Prize winning book, Barbarian Days, is often on my mind for its John Berger worthy ocean prose + insight, and because the @NewYorker essays that preceded it came to me—a long time ago—by way of a friend, as pdfs. https://t.co/5uVOXen0SF… https://t.co/hzyIGa6HUP

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@kordinglab suggested this is a completely open q in neuroscience. I suggested if we step back+ask, “what is gradient descent, really?” (riffing on Reuben Hersh’s book, What is Mathematics, really?) we can see GD is related to the replicator equation in evolutionary theory. 2/n

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In Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy echoing darkly in Judge Holden Borges' Book-Man. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth. https://t.co/8v6IpaJXEy https://t.co/nzd7HW6hdA

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“How habitable is perfected form? And how inhabitable the windy light? What’s the use of a held note or held line That cannot be assailed for reassurance?” Poem xxii in Settings in Squarings in Seamus Heaney’s Seeing Things (1991). https://t.co/wuak1TSXrf

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Garcia Street Books late afternoon acquisitions. The @martin_puchner book, "Culture", is a gift for a very good friend who today turned 91 + with whom we'll be celebrating this evening. I'm looking forward to reading it myself + cooking from the others. https://t.co/FUbKPYZgIB

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Today I spent reading the anarchist “poet laureate of deep ecology”, Gary Snyder. Seamus Heaney described his poems as primal and “trustworthy. . .you feel there’s a real coherence in the sensibility that's transmitting them to you.” Below—Snyder on self limits + many worlds. https://t.co/Xs3Kwv39aG

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Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark? And who are you that draws your veil across the stars? The power in Langston Hughes' poem, Let America Be America Again, conveys spectacularly in this reading by Willie Jennings. ht @BeineckeLibrary https://t.co/QuibKMre4p https://t.co/t0QTKKS9NT

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What issues should we consider when working thru the ethics of hunting (or a diet of tofu)? Some books + papers to discuss this year w my ethical hunter brother. The creativity+sophistication of animal sensing, revealed in An Immense World by @edyong209. https://t.co/IvZeoLgAyr

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