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• How to See Like a Machine

  Images After AI

  Paglen, Trevor

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  We once looked at pictures. Now,generative AI, adtech, recommendation algorithms, engagement economies, personalized search, and machine learning are inaugurating a new relationship between humans and media. Pictures are now looking at us looking at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How Queer Bookshops Changed the World

  West, A. J.

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  Travelling the world - Shakespeare and Company in Paris, Gay's the Word in London, the Oscar Wilde Bookshop in New York - A. J. West explores the remarkable history of these bookstores. Tracing their evolution from under-the-counter operations to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Men

  Conn, Jordan Ritter

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  A deeply intimate portrait of the lives of four men that examines what it means to be a man in the United States and many other countries . Men wield outsized power across all major institutions. They are half the population. And yet when mentioned…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Augmented

  Life and Death as a Cyborg

  Cann, Candi K.

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  A provocative rethinking of the intersection of death, technology, and disability, for a better life. In 'Augmented', Candi Cann asks us to reconsider traditional notions of biology and death. and focuses on what it means that most of us are living…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Science of Racism

  Everything You Need to Know but Probably Don't Yet

  West, Keon

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  The Science of Racism' uses clear scientific research to expose what we know about racism, exactly how we know it, and what we can do about it. Professor Keon West cuts through the divisive anecdotes and rhetoric with decades' worth of clear,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Liberal Fascisms

  Žižek, Slavoj, 1949-

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  In 'Liberal Fascisms', Slavoj Zizek captures the paradoxical nature of political populism as two sides of the same coin. From the economy and politics to ideology, these short texts work through the different faces of liberal fascisms, structured…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man

  a Memoir

  Junod, Tom

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  A memoir about a charismatic, philandering father who tried to mold his son in his image, the many secrets he hid, the son's obsessive quest to uncover them, and ultimately, the true meaning of manhood. The stunning secrets he uncovered-about his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Biography of a Dangerous Idea

  a New History of Race : From Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson

  Curran, Andrew S.

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  Over the first decades of the 18th century, Christianity began to lose its grip on the story of humankind. Yet centuries of xenophobia, religious intolerance, and proto-biological ideas did not simply disappear.In 'Biography of a Dangerous Idea',…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What We Inherit

  How New Technologies and Old Myths Are Shaping Our Genomic Future

  Trejo, Sam

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  Debating the use of genomic tools and their societal impact Over the past decade, the field of human genetics has produced an extraordinary range of discoveries-including the refinement of polygenic scores, which use a person's DNA to estimate their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Activist

  a Daoist Protest Manual

  Fried, Daniel, 1973-

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  The Activist' tries to bring out the "common-sense" aspect of Daoist ideals to advocate for a new kind of social activism. It critiques common modes of social and political activism and proposes new ones that might be more effective in promoting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Future Is Peace

  Inon, Maoz

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  Palestinian Aziz Abu Sarah and Israeli Maoz Inon are unlikely peacemakers, dedicated to finding a solution to the bitter war that has decimated historical, ancient land and ended family lines. 'In The Future Is Peace', Sarah and Inon take readers on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Braver New World

  Kampfner, John

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  John Kampfner travels to ten countries confronting our shared challenges with bravery and imagination and introduces us to the people making radical change happen. These aren't utopias. But what unites them is a refusal to accept that difficult…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Think Like a Forest

  Rawlence, Ben

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  Ben Rawlence began writing to his daughter before she was born, trying to understand what it means to bring a child into a world facing ecological breakdown. Over the next twelve years, these letters chart one father's attempt to live with the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Madness of Believing

  a Memoir From Inside Alex Jones's Conspiracy Machine

  Owens, Josh

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  The Madness of Believing' follows the author's experience working at Infowars, where he became one of its most trusted employees. Josh's story is one playing out across the United States: that of impressionable young people pulled into a dangerous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• London Falling

  a Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth

  Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976-

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  'London Falling' is at once a devastating family tragedy, a riveting story of greed, power and deception, and an indictment of the culture that has transformed London into a haven for the malignant forces that have come to influence us all.

• Antigender Fashion

  the Possibilities of Gender-fluid and Non-binary Fashion Design

  Beyer, Judith

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  'Antigender Fashion' is a rich examination of gender fluidity in contemporary fashion design. Like antifashion, which opposes and challenges fashion, Beyer argues that antigender fashion seeks to dismantle and confront binary gender signifiers.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Street, Palace, Square

  the Architecture of Democratic Spaces

  Müller, Jan-Werner, 1970-

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  In 'Street, Palace, Square', political theorist Jan-Werner Mueller offers an elegant new account of architecture and democracy that draws on examples from Washington DC to Dhaka, Cairo to Berlin. Ranging widely across political philosophy, history…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The End of Violence

  Eliminating the World's Most Dangerous Epidemic

  Slutkin, Gary

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  The End of Violence' uncovers the invisible logic of violence - and how it works on our brains and bodies - offering an inspiring and time-tested roadmap for our recovery. Incisive, far-reaching and profoundly hopeful, it challenges the idea that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The 21st Century Brain

  Cutting-edge Neuroscience to Help Us Navigate the Future

  Critchlow, Hannah

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  Neuroscientist Dr Hannah Critchlow takes readers on an empowering journey through the fascinating landscape of the latest neuroscience research and deep into their own intelligence and explores how we build collective wisdom, and how we best fuel…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Need to Tax Billionaires

  Zucman, Gabriel

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  The solution to inequality that is at the vanguard of the new political debate. While ordinary citizens pay around half of their income in tax, billionaires pay often close to zero income tax - because they earn almost all their income through…Read moreRead more of this annotation