However real and strong a memory is, it is still an echo, still a reflection, not the experience itself.| A Working Library
Lore wakes up in an alley, naked, a huge gash running down her back, her identity implant—the only proof of her heritage in one of the world’s richest families—gone.| A Working Library
Marguerite (“Marghe”) Taishan is about to step foot on the planet Jeep when she receives a warning: if she goes on, she will never come back.| A Working Library
Aud is back in Atlanta, teaching a self-defense class to a ragtag group of women, when one of her students takes her lessons in a direction she didn’t imagine.| A Working Library
Aud Torvingen is tucked away in a remote cabin, grieving and alone.| A Working Library
The original subtitle of this book defined it as “Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property,” which hints at the real message better than the revision: that real art, no matter the price, is alwa...| A Working Library
“We have witnessed transformation too often to dismiss its possibility, and we have an obligation to that possibility.”| A Working Library
“Radical” means “pertaining to the root,” that is, the foundation or center of things, the point from which something grows.| A Working Library
Aud Torvingen is a Norwegian living in Atlanta, a former cop moonlighting as security, an expert in several forms of martial arts, and six feet tall.| A Working Library
An autonomy that’s as integrated into society as the healthcare it enables is integrated across mind, body, and spirit.| A Working Library
After austerity measures pushed nearly a million people in Greece out of the healthcare system, dozens of social solidarity clinics emerged, providing free preventative and integrative healthcare t...| A Working Library
Freedom requires uncertainty.| A Working Library
“We are becoming blind to small, inconspicuous things, to what is common, the incidental and the customary—the things that do not attract us but ground us in being.”| A Working Library
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool.| A Working Library
Sutty, an observer from Terra, arrives on the planet Aka to find a singular, oppressive capitalist state has taken over the entire population in the years she spent traversing the stars to get there.| A Working Library
The subtitle of Angela Saini’s *Superior* refers to the *return* of race science—but reading it, it’s abundantly clear that race science never went away.| A Working Library
First published in 1981—thirteen years before *The Bell Curve*—Stephen Jay Gould’s *Mismeasure of Man* nonetheless claims to be the definitive refutation of that deeply racist book.| A Working Library
Obligation to possibility| A Working Library
Putting down the master’s tools.| A Working Library
Five principles for embracing uncertainty.| A Working Library
When the Hain first visit the Werelian system, they encounter a people living in a rigid and violently hierarchical system, separated into “owners” and “assets.”| A Working Library
Fascism is colonialism come home.| A Working Library
In the words of Robin D. G. Kelley’s introduction, this book is a “declaration of war.”| A Working Library
You have to stand outside the car to realize it for a cage.| A Working Library
Roger Deakin’s journey through trees takes him through the woods of Britain and Europe, to Kazakhstan and Australia, finding fellowship with a good many trees and the critters that live among them, as well as many lovely and interesting people.| A Working Library
“Beautiful one, give us our need. We give you our words.”| A Working Library
Amidst the noisy and nonsensical discourse about recognizing the intelligence of machines, Zoë Schlanger asks us to open our eyes to the intelligence that already surrounds us and upon which we wholly depend: that of plants.| A Working Library
“There is no trust in them, because there is no truth in them.”| A Working Library
One of the things that happens during moments of crisis is that people look to existing institutions—whether governments, nonprofits, churches, or the like—for guidance on what to do.| A Working Library
A concise primer on the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.| A Working Library
*An Everlasting Meal* is a modern-day *How To Cook A Wolf*—a practical, no-nonsense, and economical approach to cooking that eschews recipes for methods that can be remixed and adapted to whatever is on hand.| A Working Library
First published in 1942 and then heavily amended and republished in 1951, M.F.K. Fisher’s How to Cook a Wolf is part cookbook, part war story, and all great writing.| A Working Library
Writing in Practicing New Worlds, Andrea Ritchie documents a pattern of crisis response that, far from interrupting the crisis, merely serves to lengthen it. I will quote at length here:| A Working Library
Andrea Ritchie draws from Black feminist abolitionist politics, emergent strategies, and speculative fiction to light up a path for surviving racial capitalism, growing fascism, and the climate crisis| A Working Library
In The Dispossessed, the people of Annares—a moon colony founded by exiled anarchists—speak a language called Pravic. It is an invented language, created by the first settlers, who the protagonist of the book, Shevek, describes as Romantics.| A Working Library
In Who’s Afraid of Gender? Judith Butler illuminates the perverse parallel between the Catholic Church’s assertion that “gender ideology” is a threat to children, and its own refusal to hold itself to account for the untold numbers of children whose sexual assault it aided and abetted.| A Working Library
Judith Butler looks hard at the rise of anti-gender ideology in order to break apart how it works, and what, in turn, we must do about it.| A Working Library
Walk the road your dream goes.| A Working Library
After spending a few hundred pages detailing how states go wrong, James C. Scott turns his gaze around and identifies four alternative patterns that just might make it possible for things to go right:| A Working Library
The classic opus about how states fuck up.| A Working Library
Talking to Megan Prelinger at the Prelinger Library, Annalee Newitz captures a bit of wisdom.| A Working Library
Weapons used abroad always come home, and weapons of the mind are no different.| A Working Library
In this short fable of midwinter, Susanna Clarke tells of the speech of dogs and pigs and foxes and the woods themselves, who talk to those who know how to listen.| A Working Library
In The Middle Passage, James Hollis writes: “Grief, for example, is the occasion for acknowledging the value of that which has been experienced.”| A Working Library
“Mid-way in life’s journey / I found myself in a dark wood, / having lost the way.”| A Working Library
In The Sea and Summer, Melbourne of the mid-twenty-first century is half buried under the rising sea.| A Working Library
Dan Davies hypothesizes that organizations form “accountability sinks”—structures that serve to obscure, deflect, or otherwise insulate decision makers from the consequences of their decisions.| A Working Library
In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies argues that organizations form “accountability sinks,” structures that absorb or obscure the consequences of a decision such that no one can be held dire...| A Working Library
Playing in the dirt.| A Working Library
A book that is both fiction and non-fiction, both wave and particle, both history and imagination, and somehow, something else entirely.| A Working Library
As I retreat from the socials, something I have been wondering about is how much of the frenetic, restless, too-much feeling I get from them is a product of the algos and the corporate incentives, and how much of it might just be something *we’re* doing.| A Working Library
There’s a joke about a writer and her therapist that I’ve seen various versions of over the years. The writer complains about how terrible the writing is, how difficult it is to show up each day, how the writing is blocked, the writing is bad, she can’t sleep or eat or think.| A Working Library
Into the gap.| A Working Library
One of the most inescapable edicts when leading a team is the order to optimize the system towards the organization’s goals.| A Working Library
Good infrastructure is thankless. You only notice it when it fails.| A Working Library
Talk is power.| A Working Library
Following the threads from the witch hunts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to present-day gendered violence, Silvia Federici shows how—then as now—such oppression is not only a tool of c...| A Working Library
Kathryn Schulz posits a vision of wrongness as both the inevitable human condition and a generative source from which creativity, art, brilliance, risk-taking, and so much more arises.| A Working Library
In *Being Wrong,* Kathryn Shulz addresses the commonly held myth that we should at all times avoid hedging our bets:| A Working Library
“Silence is not simply what happens when we stop talking. It is more than a mere negative renunciation of language; it is more than simply a condition we can produce at will.”| A Working Library
Where to give all your precious fucks.| A Working Library
I used to think I wrote because there was something I wanted to say. Then I thought, “I will continue to write because I have not yet said what I wanted to say”; but I know now I continue to wri...| A Working Library
Silvia Federici, one of the creators of the wages for housework movement, digs in to the transition to capitalism and locates a critical and under-investigated element: the witch hunts.| A Working Library
Happy birthday, A Working Library.| A Working Library
Interrogating the story behind “artificial intelligence.”| A Working Library
“AI presents a technological shift in the framework of society that will amplify austerity while enabling authoritarian politics.”| A Working Library