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@malorie I'm just... the complete lack of political education is astounding. I get that before 2022 a lot of people thought Musk was a mad genius rather than a strangely lucky apartheid emerald mine heiress, but KISSINGER? This book was written in 2019!

Not even past the preface and the first paragraph describes Elon Musk (alongside Stephen Hawking and Henry Kissinger?!?!?!) as one of the "greatest minds of our times" and I may not be able to take this book seriously.

Don't mind me I'm currently running through the Philosophy Tube Transhumanism episode bibliography and adding pretty much everything I haven't read to my TBR.

Don't mind me I'm currently running through the Philosophy Tube Transhumanism episode bibliography and adding pretty much everything I haven't read to my TBR.

@battlepoet Hmmm, okay. I am kind of tired of love as the primary motivation in books (...that sounds wild when I write it down but I think it's true?) but I'm definitely down to try reading The Sorceress and the Cygnet. Adding it to my... far-too-tall TBR.

@battlepoet Do you have a favourite amongst the ones you've read? Maybe I'll start with that one!

Don't mind me I'm currently running through the Philosophy Tube Transhumanism episode bibliography and adding pretty much everything I haven't read to my TBR.

Don't mind me I'm currently running through the Philosophy Tube Transhumanism episode bibliography and adding pretty much everything I haven't read to my TBR.

Don't mind me I'm currently running through the Philosophy Tube Transhumanism episode bibliography and adding pretty much everything I haven't read to my TBR.

This is actually a book I've been meaning to read for a while, since I took a feminist epistemology course in undergrad (checks time piece err, a few centuries ago now). It popped up in a recent Philosophy Tube video and the name of the author, Carole Pateman, reminded me of reading excerpts of her a million years ago. She's a second-wave feminist, so there is a lot to criticise too (I mean, let's not kid ourselves, Pateman hates sex workers, trans people, and a lot of queers), but I also think the book is an important puzzle piece in the philosophical discussion around what we owe each other as humans and deconstructing big time the ideas behind the Enlightenment-era social contract theory that, among other things, our legal system is arguably built on.