@rachelcoldicutt@assemblag.es Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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I am very late to reading Graeber and Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything, but it is an absolute masterclass in how to write in an accessible, unpatronising way.

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"The reasons patrilineal societies look as homogenous as they do is because they a product of conquest and empire" The wonderful Angela Saini discussing her new books The Patriarchs at @Ri_Science

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I am (very slowly) reading David Kynaston’s epic social history of post-war Britain, and the bits in Modernity Britain about Young and Wilmott’s 1957 book “Family and Kinship in East London” are fascinating to read in the current context of levelling up

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@intrcnnctd @genmon In case you haven’t read it, Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s More Work for Mother is vg on the historical context of why and how those choices get made https://t.co/p6RkcCrGo5

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@isoutar Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton (is vg so far)

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Watching Judy Blume Forever and @judyblume is exactly as wonderful as I always imagined she'd be.

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To which end, I’m reading the novel The Prestige by Christopher Priest, because the idea of “the technologist as prestidigitator” is playing on my mind.

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Also, hi, put your hand up if you both believe in the imminent, AI-driven post-work future AND that the productivity crisis will only be solved by more people joining the workforce in *checks notes* 19 years time

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Daniel Greene's The Promise of Access is great on the corporate and political roots of digital literacy https://t.co/Dmklcgh9K5

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Cannot stop thinking about the fact that Sam Bankman-Fried said books are for losers and then let Michael Lewis follow him around for 6 months to write one. https://t.co/kTLG4cA91t