Bookshelf
A few books I’d recommend.
Favorites
- Laozi (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Tao Te Ching (favorite) the kind of book you reread every few years
- Tomihiko Morimi
- The Tatami Galaxy (favorite) i’ve never had a piece of media affect me like this one did
- Mary Shelley
- Frankenstein (favorite) made me rethink what science owes the world it changes
All other books
- Imogen Binnie
- Nevada cried in a coffee shop reading this
- Albert Camus
- The Myth of Sisyphus absurd, a good book when i feel lost
- Guy Debord
- The Society of the Spectacle led me down a rabbit hole of theory
- The Friends of Attention
- Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement motivated me to form a book club
- Donna Haraway
- A Cyborg Manifesto changed how i think about gender and technology
- Thomas S. Kuhn
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions paradigm-shifting
- Benjamín Labatut
- When We Cease to Understand the World i read this on a plane after my phd defense; perfect for that moment
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Dispossessed made me sad such a world doesn’t exist
- Cixin Liu
- The Three-Body Problem trilogy i read the whole trilogy in a week
- Attributed to Padmasambhava
- The Tibetan Book of the Dead strange comfort in a manual for dying
- Roger Penrose
- Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe inspired my first tattoo
- Torrey Peters
- Detransition, Baby the trans novel everyone asks if you’ve read, for good reason
- Casey Plett
- A Dream of a Woman the kind of book that makes you bake a dozen batches of pierogies
- Lowry Pressly
- The Right to Oblivion: Privacy and the Good Life introduced ways of thinking about privacy that still shape my life
- Olga Ravn
- The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century a strange little book that wrecked me
- Susan Stryker
- My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage i need to make a collage of this essay