Rudy's 2025 Reading List Public
Created by phildini, while reading
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Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott (Yale Agrarian Studies)
5 stars
Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian high-modernist planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or …
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A call for a radical transformation in the face of widespread crisis.
The Nation on No Map examines state power, …
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How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind by La Marr Jurelle Bruce
“Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.” So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's …
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Imagined communities : reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism by Benedict Anderson
4 stars
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism is a book by Benedict Anderson about the development of …
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Guerrilla Warfare by Ernesto Guevara
Guerrilla Warfare (Spanish: La Guerra de Guerrillas) is a military handbook written by Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara. Published in 1961 …
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When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good …
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The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan
Technology has enabled us to start new companies, new communities, and new currencies. But can we use it to start …
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The Ecology of Freedom by Murray Bookchin
"Using a synthesis of ecology, anthropology, philosophy and political theory, this book traces our society's conflicting legacies of freedom and …
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Arthur Goldhammer, Thomas Piketty
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, …
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Hacker and the State by Ben Buchanan
Ever since WarGames, we have been bracing for the cyberwar to come, conjuring images of exploding power plants and mass …
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