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- canoe1
Over the weekend I read/finished Richard Bach's Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah. I'm turning 40 and trying to make some changes in life, so any book giving insight into humanity and the human experience in a soulful, positive, spiritual way I'm devouring. Design books have been shelved for now.
Any recommendations?
- johnny_wobble0
not sure about the story yet, just getting in to it. but this is one cool book. designed from front to back.
- canoe1
This is an intense but great read for designers and anyone in media
- ********1
Someone mentioned this book here on QBN in the Politics thread side notes, checked it and bought it. Thanks!
- zarkonite1
If you like infographics: Graphic Presentation (1939).
- ********-1
Started reading this a few days ago
- I am in the middle of THE KLF by John Higgs :-Driskunlogic
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- uan2
found the making of the nasa and the american revolution bicentennial administration standards manual random browsing the internet archives:
Design standards manuals : their meaning and use for federal designers by Bruce Blackburn
Now I know where Apple got inspired for their Garamond logo.
Still reading it, it's about the problem-solving process they went through designing the identities, explains all the steps and decisions in detail: logos, naming, fonts, costs... .
- cannonball19780
http://www.npr.org/2015/05/20/40…
Just finished this. Pretty good in a brain-stretching sort of way.
- sofas1
"Kill All Normies" by Angela Nagle
Online culture wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the alt-right.
How internet subcultures are conquering the mainstream, from from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the alt-right.http://www.zero-books.net/books/…
https://www.amazon.com/Kill-All-…(I didn't read the book but thought some might like it)
- sofas1
"Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism" by Eva Illouz
"It is commonly assumed that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; that economic behavior conflicts with intimate, authentic relationships; that the public and private spheres are irremediably opposed to each other; and that true love is opposed to calculation and self-interest.
Eva Illouz rejects these conventional ideas and argues that the culture of capitalism has fostered an intensely emotional culture in the workplace, in the family, and in our own relationship to ourselves. She argues that economic relations have become deeply emotional, while close, intimate relationships have become increasingly defined by economic and political models of bargaining, exchange, and equity. This dual process by which emotional and economic relationships come to define and shape each other is called emotional capitalism. Illouz finds evidence of this process of emotional capitalism in various social sites: self-help literature, women's magazines, talk shows, support groups, and the Internet dating sites. How did this happen? What are the social consequences of the current preoccupation with emotions? How did the public sphere become saturated with the exposure of private life? Why does suffering occupy a central place in contemporary identity? How has emotional capitalism transformed our romantic choices and experiences? Building on and revising the intellectual legacy of critical theory, this book addresses these questions and offers a new interpretation of the reasons why the public and the private, the economic and the emotional spheres have become inextricably intertwined."https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Inti…
(i'm only in the middle but I think it's great)
- sofas0
Marta M Kania - Perspectives of the Avatar
"The main ambition of “Perspectives of the Avatar” is to sketch the existential aesthetics that explore the situatedness of the individual towards a single player digital game with avatar. The book focuses on games falling within the category of independent or art games, and builds upon an assumption drawn from existentialism; where the individual facing the world is the central philosophical concern. In this theoretical horizon, a situation can become meaningful only from the point of view of the particular being."
(didn't read it)
download free pdf-
https://www.academia.edu/3495374…
- sofas0
http://editionsassailly.com/diss…
The Worldwide List of Alternative Theories and Critics
Author : Jean de Climont
Synopsis : This directory, available exclusively in English, includes scientists who propose alternative theories or who disagree on generally accepted positions exclusively in the field of physics (natural philosophy), referenced to on the Internet.
The list includes 9000 names of scientists, doctors ou engineers for more than 50%. Their position is shortly presented together with their proposed alternative theory when applicable. There are more than 1000 theories, all amazingly very different from one another.
- sofas0
http://aurellem.org/society-of-m…
"This book tries to explain how minds work. How can intelligence emerge from nonintelligence? To answer that, we'll show that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself."
Written by Marvin Minsky
- monoboy0
I read this years ago but even more relevant today...
- Read this around the same time. Sublime book... https://upload.wikim…monoboy
- Gnash-1
back cover of comey's book is brilliant
- sofas0
Sex at Dawn
