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@imagineutopia Just saw this one came out: "Debt in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East". They use Graeber's framework. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197647172.001.0001, you can find it on libgen
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steampunkLemur wants to read K-Punk by Mark Fisher
K-Punk by Mark Fisher
Fisher died in January 2017, but his writings —on his blog K-Punk, in publications such as The Wire and in …
steampunkLemur started reading Value of Radical Theory by Wayne Price
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@imagineutopia Amazing book, I'm looking forward to reading the dawn of everything.
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imagineutopia finished reading Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans …
Extremely interesting and prescient. RIP Graeber.
steampunkLemur started reading Severance by Ling Ma
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine: …
From the prologue seems interesting. Let's goooo
steampunkLemur commented on Too Like the Lightning: Book One of Terra Ignota by Ada Palmer
"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our …
Content warning Very vague spoilers
I'm six chapters in and I am not sure what's going on. I wonder if it is because I'm listening to an audiobook and the VA is not so good. Anyway, so far it's pretty interesting but hard to follow. There is almost no exposition so you're expected to know what the narrator is talking about.
steampunkLemur set a goal to read 4 books in 2023
steampunkLemur wants to read Organize the Lab by Science for the People
steampunkLemur set a goal to read 1 book in 2022
steampunkLemur stopped reading On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Story of two restless young men in the late 1940s who cross and recross America, …
It was kind of cool at first but too long, got bored.
steampunkLemur started reading Too Like the Lightning: Book One of Terra Ignota by Ada Palmer
Too Like the Lightning: Book One of Terra Ignota by Ada Palmer
"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would …
steampunkLemur stopped reading Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes this reimagining of the classic …
Got bored
steampunkLemur wants to read Savage Ecology by Jairus Victor Grove
Savage Ecology by Jairus Victor Grove
Jairus Victor Grove contends that we live in a world made by war. In Savage Ecology he offers an ecological …