The story of Utopias

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1. max_Jan 2024
   Lewis Mumford's Books;

   - Technics & Civilization

   - The Culture of Cities

   - The Story of Utopias

   Lewis Mumford talks about technology, but from an anthropological pint of view.

   Another book I would recommend is The Nature of Technology by Brian Arthur

   The other I would recommend is James Burk's Connections he's has some books but I but the documentary is highly recommended.

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2. DyslexicAtheistMay 2020
   book suggestions are like opinions: everyone has a few ... fwiw here books which I re-read more than twice:

   1) Jacques Ellul "The Technological Society (La Technique)": https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSoci...

   2) Jacques Ellul "Propaganda" https://archive.org/details/Propaganda_201512

   3) Robert Cialdini "Influence" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini#Theory_of_infl... <- could probably be described as a modern / dark adversarial take in "how to make friends and influence people" and should be read with Kahneman & Tversky's books/papers.

   4) James C. Scott "The Art of Not being Governed" https://libcom.org/files/Art.pdf

   5) Dickens "Hard Times" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Times_(novel) <- for it's description of the effects on peasant communities during industrialization, which is also a theme in "La Technique" above

   6) George Orwell "Down and Out in London and Paris" https://archive.org/details/DownAndOutInParisAndLondonGeorge...

   7) M. Scott Peck "The Road Less Traveled" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Scott_Peck#The_Road_Less_Tr...

   8) Introducing Psychology of Relationships - A Practical Guide by John Karter https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Psychology-Relationships-...

   9) Lion Feuchtwanger "Goya" https://www.amazon.com/Goya-Lion-Feuchtwanger/dp/8476408838

   10) Thomas Ligotti "The Conspiracy against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror" https://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-against-Human-Race-Contriv...

   11) Plato "The Republic": https://archive.org/details/PlatoRepublic/mode/2up

   12) Lewis Mumford "The Story of Utopias": https://archive.org/details/storyutopias00mumfgoog/page/n9/m...

   13) the major works of: Kant, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx, Foucault, Chomsky, Zizek

   Short:

   - Peter Wessel Zapffe "The Last Messiah": https://philosophynow.org/issues/45/The_Last_Messiah

   - Lion Feuchtwanger "Power": https://archive.org/details/powerbookbylionf00zieliala/page/...

   - Samuel Becket "Waiting for Godot": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot

   - Fyodor Dostoevsky "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man": https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Ridiculous-Man-Fyodor-Dostoyevs...

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3. DyslexicAtheistFeb 2019

     - Jacques Ellul "The Technological Society"
     - N.N.Taleb "The Black Swan"
     - Danny Kahneman "Thinking Fast & Slow" (also his papers with Amos Tversky)
     - Thomas Ligotti "The Conspiracy against the Human Race"
     - Peter Wessel Zapffe "On the Tragic" & "The Last Messiah"
     - Sokal, Alan D "Intellectual Impostures"
     - Simon Herbert "A The Sciences of the Artificial"
     - Herbert Marcuse "One-Dimensional Man"
     - Schopenhauer "Parerga and Paralipomena"
     - Lewis Mumford "The Story of Utopias"
     - Michel Foucault "Discipline and Punish"
     - Edward S. Herman "Manufacturing Consent - The Political Economy of the Mass Media"
     - Franklin Foer "World Without Mind The Existential Threat of Big Tech"
     - Ben Goldacre "Bad science"
     - Emil Cioran "The Book of Delusions"
     - Gracian "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
     - Heidegger Martin "The Question Concerning Technology"
     - Jacques Ellul "Propaganda The Formation of Mens Attitudes"
     - Mumford Lewis "The Culture of Cities"
     - Orwell "1984", "Down and Out in Paris and London", "Animal Farm"
     - Huxley "Brave New World", "The Doors Of Perception"
     - Michael Pollan "How to change your mind"
     - Jeff Hawkins "On Intelligence"
     - Fyodor Dostoevsky "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man", "Notes from the Underground", "The Brothers Kasamarov", "The Gambler", "The Idiot", "Crime & Punishment"
     - Peter Smith "Teach Yourself Logic"
     - Thomas More "Utopia"
     - Emil Cioran "The Trouble With Being Born"
     - Solzhenitsyn "The Gulag Archipelago"
     - Nietzsche "Complete works"
     - Bulgakov "Master and Margarita"
     - Gerald M. Weinberg "The Secrets of Consulting"

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