Recs if you like Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence...
The Big Bad Luddite List
ANTI: fascism, ai, nfts, Big Tech, billionaires, surveillance states, optimization, algorithms, bot farms, technofeudalism, enshittification, exploitation, extractionism, planned obsolescence PRO: organized labor, punk, analog, solidarity, free speech, friction, degrowth, experimentation, right to privacy, right to repair, diy, material process, mutual aid, ecological living, the human hand, the human mind
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our minds and others
“We have no clear definition of consciousness—even though it must be the most important element of our own experience on the planet.
Why do we fear so much in the other this thing we so little understand in ourselves?”
books that explore and grapple with the nature of human and non-human consciousness (animal, machine, or otherwise alien).
mostly science non-fiction, speculative fiction and literary fiction.
recs very much welcome :)
earth and weeds and how it all goes
ecology-based books—practical, cultural, and whimsical
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