Babel
R. F. Kuang

In the nineteenth century, the British empire has achieved exceptional power through its dominance of silver-working: an art that locates and exploits the magic in the gaps of meaning between languages.
In the nineteenth century, the British empire has achieved exceptional power through its dominance of silver-working: an art that locates and exploits the magic in the gaps of meaning between languages.
Thinking about altruism with Le Guin.
This short and impactful book outlines a concise and clear strategic framework for choosing whether to negotiate, to build power, or to vanquish your opponents.
Kropotkin’s thesis is that it is mutual aid, cooperation, and solidarity—rather than competition—that permit evolution and survival among the species, both humans and more-than-humans.
I was unfamiliar with the titular essay in this collection, but as soon as I heard it, I realized with a start that my one great longing in life is to become a space crone.
Interrogating the story behind “artificial intelligence.”
“This book is my panoramic assault on nihilism.”
An invitation to get lost, and to make oneself at ease in that place of mystery.
A group of people “preadapted” to danger and stress have been recruited to run a power station at the bottom of the Pacific.
“AI presents a technological shift in the framework of society that will amplify austerity while enabling authoritarian politics.”
A cogent argument about how the elite has coopted identity politics in order to deliver a facade of change while leaving the underlying structures of racial capitalism in place.
The modern day worker, argues Byung-Chul Han, is an “entrepreneur of themselves.”
“I believe in the possibility of dorsal, or stabilizing practices in our own lives.”
Strangers to Ourselves asks questions about how we name and respond to people with “unsettled” minds.