The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · begun, set down
Library
The Antilibrary
The books still to be read. One day. Maybe...
A reminder of all the knowledge and understandings still to be considered, understood and integrated. Each entry remembers where it came from and why it entered into my sphere of unknowning.
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
Isaiah Berlin
via Venkatesh Rao · his piece in Protocolized — "The Crooked Timber of AI" ↗
The Stack
Benjamin H. Bratton
I want to learn more about Bratton's thinking after attending that lecture.
via Benjamin H. Bratton · his lecture in London — "What is agency? Placebo Culture, Agency theater, agentic AI" ↗ — from On Hybrid Human AI Societies
- Thinking about On Hybrid Human AI Societies
Maintenance of Everything
Stewart Brand
The Eerie Silence: Searching for Ourselves in the Universe
Paul Davies
Alive: The Hidden Intelligence of the Living World
Melanie Challenger
The Invention of Technology: An Intellectual History with André Leroi-Gourhan ↗
Nathan Schlanger · 2026
via Memory Research Study Group · the Protocol Institute
Gesture and Speech ↗
André Leroi-Gourhan · 2018
We read the chapter "The Freeing of Memory". Its analysis was super fascinating; I want the whole book.
via Memory Research Study Group · the session at the Protocol Institute on 16 July 2026 — "The Freeing of Memory"
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Peter Godfrey-Smith · 2016
It relates to my piece "A Process of Becoming" — how embodied beings experience and enact their world.
- my writing, elsewhere A Process of Becoming: Making Sense of our Technologically Mediated Reality ↗
Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott
I want to dive deeper into legibility.
And the Garden Is You: Essays on Fieldwork, Writingwork, and Readingwork ↗
Michael Taussig · 2024 · on the shelf, unread
It feels so aligned with this living landscape I am trying to create.
via stumbled on it reviewing my Amazon list
Imagination: A Manifesto
Ruha Benjamin