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A working library is a blog about work, reading & technology by Mandy Brown

Tactical freeze

On Twitter and Tear Gas

Design affordances

On Twitter and Tear Gas

Social media curatorial journalism

On Twitter and Tear Gas

Collaboration

On Backing Hitler

White women

On The Underground Railroad

How stories work

On The Underground Railroad

Up against the wall

On The Handmaid’s Tale

Sisterhood

On Sister Outsider

Abolition, not reform

On Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

The feminist approach

On Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

The revolution that counts

On Hope in the Dark

Transforming the relations of power

On Anthropocene or Capitalocene?

We are at stake to each other

On Anthropocene or Capitalocene? & The Mushroom at the End of the World

The poverty of our nomenclature

On Anthropocene or Capitalocene?

A theory of nonscalability

On The Mushroom at the End of the World

Savage salvage

On The Mushroom at the End of the World

The Manhattan Project

On Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Reciprocal possession

On The Companion Species Manifesto

Without anyone’s consent

On The Real World of Technology

Prescriptive technologies

On The Real World of Technology

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