...given the assumption of this forum that our ideas are constructed
of memes, and - therefore - what we put into our heads is what comes
out [metaphorically speaking] I thought it might be a good idea if I
shared some of my recent [and current] reading material.
...also because I just got back from the library with about 20 pounds
of new stuff and I'm pretty excited right now.
Recent reading:
Biosphere Politics - Jeremy Rifkin
Powershift - Alvin Toffler
The End of Work - Jeremy Rifkin
Whose Brave New World - Heather Menzies
Writings on Civil Disobedience and nonviolence - Tolstoy
Food of the Gods - Terence McKenna
The Skin of Culture - Derrick DeKerckhove
Data Trash - Arthur Kroker
In the middle of:
Technopoly - Neil Postman
General Linguistics - can't remember who it's by
Just got today:
Why things Bite Back: Technology and the revenge of unintended
consequences - Edward Tenner
The DNA Mystique: The gene as a Cultural Icon - Nelkin & Lindee
Logic made Easy - R.H. Warring
The Mind of God - Paul Davies
The End of Education - Neil Postman
The Web of Life - Fritjof Capra
The Ape that Spoke - Language and the Evolution of the Human Mind -
John McCrone
...some bastard nicked the ONE Bertrand Russel book @ my local
Library (Why I'm not a Christian) AND the circulating copy of Bacon's
Novum Organum. And last time I went somebody [who obviously missed
the whole point] had stolen Marx's "Communist Manifesto"...
...ah Libraries, possibly my favourite social institution next to the
coffeehouse [where more revolutions are born than anywhere else]
-psypher