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Month: December 2022

  • 12DEC22 / accessions

    A delayed-in-the-mail batch of non-fiction, and presumably the last accessions of the year… perhaps even for a while? I think I need to stage some sort of intervention on myself, this habit’s getting out of hand.

  • 11DEC22 / accessions

    This second-hand selection is brought to you live from the National Museum in Stockholm, where I have reconvened with L____ after she kindly turned me loose in a local oddball bookstore before retreating to a cafe. S’how you know it’s love, innit?

  • 08DEC22 / accessions

    A double-drop catch-up from the accessions department. First batch were bought last weekend. WicDiv #3 because I’ve started and feel I want to continue; the Rian Hughes because I bought XX some time last year in hardback and the sheer mass of the thing keeps putting me off starting it, so figured maybe The Black…

  • science found it hard to converse with the rest of society

    Nice to see a typically long LRB review of Latour’s last two books, but Harding makes a bit of a blunder here, perhaps due to his not having been party to decades of STS discourse: There was a hint in We Have Never Been Modern that science found it hard to converse with the rest…

  • the theology of capital

    The primary product sold by all management consultants – both software developers and strategic organisers – is the theology of capital. This holds that workers are expendable. They can be replaced by machines, or by harder-working employees grateful they weren’t let go in the last round of redundancies. Managers are necessary to the functioning of…