Marcin Wicha, Proste rzeczy, wyd. Agora. Zbiór felietonów z lat 2016-2018. Doskonałe. Muszę je mieć w papierze. Wielka szkoda, że już nigdy więcej. #readlist2026pl #bestread

For Another Buddhism, Against Byung-Chul Han - Notes - e-flux Alex Taek-Gwang Lee reviews The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism by Byung-Chul Han.

#mustread #history #Buddhism #bestread

For Another Buddhism, Against Byung-Chul Han by Alex Taek-Gwang Lee - one of the most cogent & powerful critiques of Han I've read. Precisely against Sloterdijkian mannerism or a monolithic East as metaphysical counter image.

www.e-flux.com/notes/678345...

Fixation on imperial history risks clouding China’s path to modernity, Shiping Tang warned Intellectual closure dressed up as awakening, and a dynasty swap turned into a loyalty test.

#bestread recently
#History is essential, but a fixation of the imperial past is never healthy or protochronist obsession. We also have (even worse) examples from other places - including Germany's Prussian touristy revivalism with bland castles & gilded crowns.

www.eastisread.com/p/fixation-o...

Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought

#essay #bestread

"Perhaps all those modern obsessions about thinking and neural models of cognition were built to raise high the ceiling of our pure minds protecting us from the impure, messy and constantly dying and birthing cells of our bodies"
aeon.co/essays/why-y...
v @germansierra.bsky.social

#book #bestread #books #scifistudies #sciencefiction #sfstudies #sfacholars #critical #criticaltheory

Cloudfare has issues so it's time to catch up on the reading 📚 list! Here's my definite favorite 2025 books during these troubled times (even if the year's not over). They make excellent gifts🎁.

Of Bloatware and Spreadsheets: Nairobi, Chinese Phones, and the Limits of Data Coloniality This article charts the recent history of affordable Chinese phones in Nairobi, a city heralded by many as one of Africa’s digital capitals. Here, cheap handsets manufactured in China are the mater...

#bestread #chinku #bloatware #nairobi #vernacular

This is what golden era SF inspired disruptors & techbro billionaires don't process - the impact of knockoffs, "chinku" handhelds and the debugging & glitches far from the metropole in places like #Nairobi.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Never Very Far from What Is Happening Right Now | Los Angeles Review of Books The world of Andrea Hairston’s “Master of Poisons” is rich, strange, and exhilaratingly beautiful; it is also violent and terrible.

#bestread
#speculativefiction

"Never Very Far from What Is Happening Right Now"
#Review by @sshaviro.bsky.social about Andrea Hairston’s “Master of Poisons.

lareviewofbooks.org/article/neve...

#IndieAuthor #BestRead #ShamelessSelfPromo They're here! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FMPJQBTP

#WW #LitChat #BestRead #BskyAuthors Maybe we're all the good guys? www.amazon.com/dp/B0FMPJQBTP

We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.

#reading #knowledge #Wissenschaft #bestread
Fenomenal article. Walter Ong's Orality& #Literacy was probably one of the most important books I've read in the 1990s. That and Galaxia Gutenberg translated in Romanian by editura politică. Socialist alphabetisation was key.
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CLICK TO READ FOR 0.99 OR FREE WITH AMAZON PRIME 📕 A BRAND NEW spooky murder mystery, from Mary Grand, the NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING author of A Christmas Murder!
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#halloween #kindle #prime #crime #bestread #bestseller #99p #isleofwight #greatread

A Brief History of GFP How a chance discovery in bioluminescent jellyfish led to one of the most transformative tools in modern biology.

#longread #sunday #gfp #biology #bestread

Jellyfish derived fluorescent dyes have been revolutionizing in vivo cellular (+molecular) visualisation - marking the 'visual turn' (in Hannah Landecker's words) of the post genomic 2000s.

A Brief History of GFP
press.asimov.com/articles/gfp

Set during World War II, ACE, MARVEL, SPY and Midnight on the Scottish Shore chronicle the stories of two women whose lives are testaments to the power of courage during times of upheaval. @jennilwalsh.bsky.social

www.bookpage.com/?p=212836

#inspirationalfiction #fiction #books #bookpage #bestread

What is the best article I can show my Trump loving husband to educate him on the other side. I have to try. #educatethetrumper #bestread #antitrust #sumitup

Planet Kill — Chapter 6 Bet you forgot him!

#BestRead Here's a new chapter and we come full circle. medium.com/the-fiction-...

I need audiobook recommendations! What’s the best novel you’ve read/listened to in 2024?

Bonus points for horror but not interested in stories involving harm to animals.

#audiobooks #horrornovel #bestread #favouritebook #readinglist #whattoread

#bestread
Catch up on several cases followed last couple of years. #thebackstory
#thebookofmurder

Constructing Racism in Western Art – Hans Makart and the Case of Cleopatra The depictions of Cleopatra serve as great examples of how racism was constructed in Western art tradition.

#mustread #bestread
Constructing Racism in Western Art – Hans Makart and the Case of Cleopatra by Kero Fichter

www.dailyartmagazine.com/the-case-of-...

v @grenzfurthner.bsky.social