Books

They had communication technology so powerful it reaches us still

What a textbook shows about peak everything

A review of a seminal collapse textbook.

The next part of a book I'm writing.

The intro to the intro of a book

And its continuing zombie existence, eating brains

How asking ‘how are you?’ is both heroic and banal

A reading list of how I deprogrammed it myself

As illustrated with 25 Economist covers

Yuval Noah Hariri has written the White Man’s Burden for atheist tech fuckbois

Reading Tolstoy in a Sri Lankan protest village

Fossil fuel infrastructure isn't going to destroy itself

When food culture became consumer culture, it all went to shit

Capital is not a form of human life, it's a lifeform.

Crypto is just the idea that 'hey, if those fuckers can make up money, so can we.'

From orality to literacy and back again

3 lessons from two books: Weimar Germany and Berlin In Lights

Tolstoy is the anarchist philosopher poet, trying to make peasants into philosopher kings.

How the Oompa Loompas were originally black, and enslaved

Biologically speaking, we’re just walking water balloons

Chinese history in one graphic novel

Oh God, why didn’t we learn this before

Reading Last Empire by Serhii Plokhy

The classic children’s book has some odd secrets

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