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Rated Thick: And Other Essays 6/10

Wants to read De Black Box Democratie

Wants to read How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Wants to read Grote dieven kleine dieven

Wants to read Picture perfect: Het publieke leven van de smartphone-generatie

Rated 46% Better Than Dave 6/10

Rated The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? 10/10

Rated What Is Populism? 10/10

Rated Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 8/10

Wants to read Multiculturalism and Its Discontents: Rethinking Diversity after 9/11

Wants to read Oordelen zonder regels: Kant over schoonheid, kunst en natuur

Rated Weather 8/10

Rated Stoorzender 6/10

Rated Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future 8/10

Rated How to Be an Antiracist 10/10

Rated Think Like a Lawyer Don't Act Like One 4/10

Rated Het recht van de snelste 6/10

Interessante materie en ideeën. De vertelvorm was niet voor mij: te vaak was het niet een boek over het verkeer, maar een boek over het schrijven van een boek over verkeer (de schrijfster noemt het zelf haar ‘ontdekkingsreis’).

Rated Lean Out 8/10

‘Trickle down feminism’ doesn't work, shows Dawn Foster in this clever, short book. People like Sheryl Sandberg (‘Lean in’), Theresa May and Margaret Thatcher may have had positions of leadership, but as part of the 1%, they did not help the feminist case. More meaningful feminism, Foster proposes. is to lean out and effectively fight the systems that hurt the poor.

Finished reading Magnus

Wants to read The Vanishing Half

Wants to read We Need New Stories

Finished reading La Superba

Wants to read White Tears/Brown Scars

Wants to read Wij zijn licht

Rated The People Vs Tech: How the Internet Is Killing Democracy 10/10

There's a lot of recent publications about how technology (and especially technology from Silicon Valley) impacts society. I liked ‘People vs Tech’, because it is very to the point and compact. It looks at tech from a political sciences point of view and is full of sharp observations. It paints a gloomy picture of what may lie ahead of us, but also provides ideas to help avoid catastrophe (some more original than others).