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piks3l

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Des trucs, des machins, de la technique et des choses étranges

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How to Do Nothing (2019) 4 stars

In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and …

Overall, a good book. It is interesting to see that artists, activists and so on, arrive at the same conclusion to today's attention economy: we need to stop and talk to each other.

The book is an interesting overview from contemporary art performances, my favourite being The Trainee (https://pilvitakala.com/the-trainee), which analyses our relation to work and how we see being busy (or looking busy) as a form of goal in itself.

The author gets towards a very interesting part about context and how context is something we are loosing in our daily feeds. But context is everything, it is everything that makes us being. Otherwise, we are just floating points with labels.

Good read, pleasant, nothing new but the thought path is interesting.

Libertarian Walks into a Bear (2020, PublicAffairs) 4 stars

The book is a well-documented and well written document on a very unique political experience where libertarians decided to create a new libertarian utopian city (The Free Town Project). The book has a quite light tone although the reality is quite grim. The updated version of 2021 skims over the project of a libertarian state, the Free State Project.

It's really interesting to read and to compare it to other political experience, when reality meets theory, there are always interesting things happening.

Libertarian Walks into a Bear (2020, PublicAffairs) 4 stars

A fun and witty documentation on a political experience

4 stars

The book is a well-documented and well written document on a very unique political experience where libertarians decided to create a new libertarian utopian city (The Free Town Project). The book has a quite light tone although the reality is quite grim. The updated version of 2021 skims over the project of a libertarian state, the Free State Project.

It's really interesting to read and to compare it to other political experience, when reality meets theory, there are always interesting things happening.