For Reading Consideration

See here for past reads.

Society, People

• The Extreme Self: Age of You — Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland, Hans Ulrich Obrist
  How the internet is changing us
• The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present — Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland, Hans Ulrich Obrist
• Techgnosis — Erik Davis
  The metaphysical urges underlying our technological progress
• Precariat — Guy Standing
• Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man — Marshall McLuhan
  the media, not the content that they carry, should be the focus of study
• The Gutenberg Galaxy — Marshall McLuhan
• Pale Horse Rider — Mark Jacobson
  Biography of Milton William Cooper, who wrote "Behold a Pale Horse", a conspiracy theorist favorite
• The Society of the Spectacle — Guy Debord
• We Have Never Been Modern — Bruno Latour
• Seeing Like a State — James C. Scott
• The Shadow Factory — James Bamford
  The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America
• The Populist Moment — Lawrence Goodwyn
  A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America

Music

• Harry Smith: American Magus — Paola Igliori
  A privileged look into the life and artistic practice of the experimental filmmaker, music anthologist, and enigmatic polymath Harry Smith
• Perfect Sound Forever — Rob Jovanovic
  Pavement
• Flutter Echo — David Toop
  explores his personal growth as a practicing musician, visual artist, and witness to some of the most significant events in modern music history
• Ocean of Sound — David Toop

Architecture, Design

• The Timeless Way Of Building — Christopher Alexander
• Notes on the synthesis of form — Christopher Alexander
• A pattern language — Christopher Alexander
• The Humane Interface — Jef Raskin
  user interface design

Fiction

• The Monkey Wrench Gang — Edward Abbey
• The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy — James Purdy
• Jazz — Toni Morrison
• Solaris — Stanislaw Lem
• Concrete — Thomas Bernhard
• Butcher's Crossing — John Williams
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation — Ottessa Moshfegh
• Red shift — Alan Garner

Science

• Helgoland — Carlo Rovelli
  Relational quantum mechanics

Health

• Outlive — Peter Attia, Bill Gifford
  Extending long-term health
• Being Mortal — Atul Gawande
  end-of-life from a doctor's perspective

Philosophy

• Nietzsche et la philosophie. — Gilles Deleuze
• Tactics and ethics — György Lukács
• Beyond the pleasure principle — Sigmund Freud