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🍵 Lots of nonfiction, literary fiction, poetry, classical literature, speculative fiction, magical realism, etc. English, French, and many translations.
📖 Beaucoup de non-fiction, de fiction littéraire, de poésie, de classiques, de spéculatif, de réalisme magique, etc. Lecture en anglais et en français, et beaucoup de traductions.
💌 Find me on Mastodon: silvan.cloud/@gersande
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The Unaccountability Machine (Hardcover, 2024, Profile Books Limited)
Part-biography, part-political thriller, The Unaccountability Machine is a rousing exposé of how management failures lead organisations to make catastrophic errors. …
"Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has …
As competition intensifies, surveillance capitalists learn that extracting human experience is not enough. (..). New automated protocols are designed to influence and modify our behaviour at scale as the means of production is subordinated to a new and more complex means of behaviour modification.
— The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff (Page 2)
"Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has …
For all of Google's technological prowess and computational talent, the real credit for its success goes to the radical social relations that the company declared as facts, beginning with its disregard for the boundaries of human private experience and the moral integrity of the autonomous individual.
— The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff (Page 2)
Dense language snowballing a little here.
@leifur I hear really good things!!!
"Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has …
That surveillance capitalism is a logic in action and not a technology is a vital point because surveillance capitalists want is to think that their practices are inevitable expressions of the technologies they employ.
— The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff (2%)
"Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has …
Was mentioned in the recent Philosophy Tube video essay. Am reading very slowly during Pomodoro breaks from exam prep.
Thyme Travellers collects fourteen of the Palestinian diaspora’s best voices in speculative fiction. Speculative fiction …
This would have made it on my TBR for the title alone, but also this looks rad as heck.
Suivez le fil de cette enquête où Alain Gravel nous emmène dans la tête de …
Je vole à travers les pages, le cœur un peu brisé.
L'affaire Jeanson: l'engrenage (Paperback, français language, Voix Parallèles)
Suivez le fil de cette enquête où Alain Gravel nous emmène dans la tête de Geneviève Jeanson. Tentez vous-même de …
Kinda wish this wasn't a library book because I want to keep it for all the citations in the back!
What does the vagus nerve detect? Increases in inflammation, shifts in stress hormones, even microscopic changes in the diversity of gut microbiota. (…) This makes the vagus nerve the ultimate mind-body connector.
— Move the Body, Heal the Mind by Dr. Jennifer Heisz (Page 52)
La théorie du manque de sérotonine est en train d’être complexifiée (voir… debunked)
Surprisingly, it’s likely inflammation. Undoubtedly, you’ve heard of inflammation. It’s what protects the body from infection. Immune cells called cytokines detect an injury or infection and sound an alarm. The alarm summons other immune cells to the site, and their influx cases the inflammation that we recognize as redness and swelling of superficial wounds. However, all parts of the body can inflame, even the brain. And when the brain inflames, it causes sickness behavior that makes us feel exhausted, antisocial and depressed. Sick at home. Alone in bed. Binge-watching Netflix. Sound familiar? Although no one likes being sick, these behaviors are quite prosocial because they isolate us from others and prevent the spread of infection. It’s the brain’s version of social distancing and a small price to pay for protecting others.
Je n'avais jamais vu le lien entre l'inflammation chronique et la fatigue/anxiété générale/dépression et honnêtement ça m'inquiète. À ajouter à la liste sans fin de trucs à vérifier/chercher.
No red flags so far, and I like the practical approach the author proposes, a kind of "let's get moving together" approach while also talking about the theories behind everything. While maybe a little less theoretical than I was hoping for, I like the clear language.
Too anxious to not be reading something, too anxious to read something not at least somewhat related to kinésiologie. Found this in the library. Will either hate it or love it, stay tuned!
