Robin Berjon | 🦋 robin.berjon.com Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Institutional and Organizational Analysis: Concepts and Applications
Eric AlstonRobin Berjon | 🦋 robin.berjon.com"Institutional and Organizational Analysis" by @IncompleteRules, Lee Alston, Bernardo Mueller, and Tomas Nonnenmacher. Clear and stimulating overview and a great toolbox to think about these issues. https://t.co/RDujiIHyWS
Paperback, 2018
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An Infinity of Worlds: Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe
Will KinneyRobin Berjon | 🦋 robin.berjon.com"An Infinity of Worlds: Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe" by @WKCosmo. This is the kind of science writing that manages to be clear to a general audience without ever feeling like it's dumbing things down. https://t.co/wtmJAc0Nx2
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The Tower of Swallows
Andrzej SapkowskiRobin Berjon | 🦋 robin.berjon.com"The Tower of Swallows" by Andrzej Sapkowski. Things are set for the grand finale. There's less humour than in the earlier ones, it only pokes up now and then which is a bit of a shame. https://t.co/ZGrioTvwas
Hardcover, 2022
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Making Things Up
Karen BennettRobin Berjon | 🦋 robin.berjon.com"Making Things Up" by Karen Bennett. A metaphysical account of building relations and fundamentality. Lots of good things in there, though I'm not entirely sure that it's not all causation. https://t.co/FlroWgHqOK
Paperback, 2019
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Too Like the Lightning: Book One of Terra Ignota
Ada PalmerRobin Berjon | 🦋 robin.berjon.com"Too Like The Lightning" by @Ada_Palmer Absolutely amazing, the intricacies of this world, the characters, the logic and surprises, the polylaw system (which has precedent)... I'm very excited to read the rest! https://t.co/gn39RzcfxK
Paperback, 2017
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Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature
Peter Godfrey-SmithRobin Berjon | 🦋 robin.berjon.com"Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature" by Peter Godfrey-Smith Lots of good bits, but I was looking for more about the interactive mechanics of becoming complex to deal with complex, etc. https://t.co/Yy8zgKgKnf
Paperback, 1998
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Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
James BridleRobin Berjon | 🦋 robin.berjon.com"Ways of Being - Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence" by @jamesbridle. Great book covering a lot of ground from the shadow noosphere of other intelligences to solidarity as the opposite of control and domination. https://t.co/d17gClO6k8
Paperback, 2023
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
David GraeberRobin Berjon | 🦋 robin.berjon.com"Pirate Enlightenment, or The Real Libertalia" by David Graeber Lots of vague assumptions and anecdotes, not much to sink teeth in. A number of the tidbits are interesting but they don't add up to a book much. https://t.co/7KZ92rvyhy
Paperback, 2024
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How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things
Jenny L. DavisRobin Berjon | 🦋 robin.berjon.com"How Artifacts Afford" by @Jenny_L_Davis. A clear, crisp, and highly usable framework to parse out the mechanisms and conditions of affordances. Recommended for those who wish to understand technology. https://t.co/6O96mZKifb
Hardcover, 2020
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The Domestication of the Human Species
Peter J. WilsonRobin Berjon | 🦋 robin.berjon.com"The Domestication of the Human Species" by Peter Wilson. Some interesting tidbits but overall unconvincing and a bit all over the place. https://t.co/epX6H2oN3n
Paperback, 1991
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