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Citing evidence from social psychology and media studies, Superbloom shows how communications technologies (and social media in particular) divide and harm us by amplifying the worst aspects of human nature. It is a brutal dismantling of widely held fantasies about how communication works
With characteristic wit and candor, Neil Postman, our most astute and engaging cultural critic, launches a trenchant--and harrowing--warning against the …
An “essential and riveting” (Jonathan Haidt) analysis of the radical shift in the dynamics of power and influence, revealing how …
Eve Babitz: Sex and rage : advice to young ladies eager for a good time (2017)
"The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, originally published in 1979, about …
Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true …
This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delicate balance between …
"The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, …
Not her best
This is the second, revised and expanded edition. The first edition was published under the …
Zettlekasten is an interesting system for organizing ideas. It sounds quite promising and I intend to try it out.
The presentation of the method is somewhat abstract making it difficult to know where to begin.
The text is also repetitive with the same ideas resurfacing again and again
Nominee for Best Historical Fiction (2022) 1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the …
Favourite passage: "Here is a story. The last of all men who stands alone in the universe while it darkens about him. Who sorrows all things with a single sorrow. Out of the pitiable and exhausted remnants of what was once his soul he'll find nothing from which to craft the least thing godlike to guide him in these last of days."
Favourite passage: "Here is a story. The last of all men who stands alone in the universe while it darkens about him. Who sorrows all things with a single sorrow. Out of the pitiable and exhausted remnants of what was once his soul he'll find nothing from which to craft the least thing godlike to guide him in these last of days."
In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and …
An artist's perspective on the commodification of attention and potential paths of resistance by seeking a deeper connection to the local environment.
An artist's perspective on the commodification of attention and potential paths of resistance by seeking a deeper connection to the local environment.
