It seems the pace for these kind of posts have settled at once a month. If you missed the last one, you can find it here.
Continue reading “Reading List 17”Review: The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
What do you do when your world starts to fall apart? I go for a walk, and if I’m really lucky, I find mushrooms. Mushrooms pull me back into my senses, not just–like flowers–through their riotous colors and smells but because they pop up unexpectedly, reminding me of the good fortune of just happening to be there. Then I know that there are still pleasures amidst the terrors of indeterminacy.
page 1, Prologue Autumn Aroma, The Mushroom at the End of the World
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Review – Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
Continue reading “Review – Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)”There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue.
Hagakure, The Book of the Samurai
Review: Filterworld by Kyle Chayka
Continue reading “Review: Filterworld by Kyle Chayka”Attention becomes the only metric by which culture is judged, and what gets attention is dictated by equations developed by Silicon Valley engineers.
page 9, Filterworld
fragments of capital
Another in the fragments series that is about capital.
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