1. Luke Thorburn
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Reading List

Stateliving

A self-prescribed reading list. I also keep a reading log.


Evaluating the Language of Argument The Square and the Tower The Medium is the Massage The Wizard and the Prophet Parable of the Sower The Blank Swan The Just City The Memory Police The Taming of Chance Merchants of Doubt Public Opinion The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium Idea Makers The Problem of Political Authority The Myth Gap Regulating Platforms Manufacturing Consent Network Propaganda An Economic Theory of Democracy Agnotology The Collapse of Complex Societies The Enigma of Reason Peak Mind The Glass Hotel The Philosophy of Information Quality Lurking Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking The Ministry for the Future Custodians of the Internet Infostorms The Paranoid Style in American Politics The Decline and Rise of Democracy Poles Apart Normal All Your Friends Like This Twilight of Democracy The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Deliberate Ignorance Political Turbulence The Noonday Demon Not Born Yesterday Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned The People, No Abolish Silicon Valley Exhalation Mistrust Twitter and Tear Gas No one is talking about this Logicomix The Reality Bubble Them High Conflict Trick Mirror Four Thousand Weeks The Evolution of Cooperation Games The Netanyahus Rationalism in Politics The Journalist and the Murderer Media Unmade Bosie Atlas of AI Seeing Like a State So Many Books A Prehistory Of The Cloud Le Ton beau de Marot Sustainable Energy On Inequality Subprime Attention Crisis The Conspiracy against the Human Race The Master and His Emissary The Organization Man How to Not Always Be Working Pataphysics The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Frenemies Vaccine Hesitancy Mathematics for Human Flourishing Citizens Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha Amusing Ourselves to Death Democracy Hacked Werner Herzog The Nature of Prejudice Finding Oneself in the Other After Democracy Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy Love and Information Secular Cycles Dialogue in the Digital Age On Truth and Untruth Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse Breaking Bread with the Dead Democracy in a Time of Misery Aspiration Nationalism Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press Why Liberalism Failed No Sense of Place Being and Time Lila Our Very Own Brexit The Giver The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Describing Inner Experience? The Undoing Project She Came to Stay So You Want to Publish a Book? Moral Uncertainty Anathem The Three-Body Problem Infidel Randomistas The Price of Peace Formal Models of Domestic Politics Why are We Yelling? The Tyranny of Opinion The Emergence of Probability Fragile by Design How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read Strategic Instincts The Infinite Machine What We See When We Read The Truth About Denial The Sovereignty of Good Gilead How to Lose the Information War In a Different Key Crystallizing Public Opinion Governing the Commons Engineering a Safer World The Constitution of Knowledge On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes The Best Interface Is No Interface Handbook of Cliometrics Overdoing Democracy Future Histories Lexion Ghost Fleet The Influential Mind Consciousness The Subversive Simone Weil Elinor Ostrom The Polarizers Humiliation Would You Kill the Fat Man? A Mind at Play LikeWar Frank Ramsey The Wealth of Humans Strangers in Their Own Land Thank You for Arguing Orthodoxy Fascism The Garden of Forking Paths Zen in the Art of Writing Einstein's God Infoglut Impro Probably Approximately Correct Trust Me I'm Lying This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things Stop Reading the News Micromotives and Macrobehavior Simulacra and Simulation How to Think Don't Think of an Elephant! It Can't Happen Here A Tenth of a Second Must We Mean What We Say? A Pattern Language Rational Ritual Leviathan Curves and Angles The Rhetoric of Economics Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital Media Feeding the World Language, Truth & Logic The Man in the High Castle Scarcity: Why having too little means so much A Brief History of Fascist Lies The Fifth Risk Waves Passing in the Night Influence Against the Grain The Weil Conjectures Resonance Burn-In How to write a sentence A Universe of Sufficient Size Who Wants to Run? Bluffocracy The Radical Fool of Capitalism The Circle The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management The Naked Ape Rhet Ops Striking Back Social Media and Democracy Who is Rich? This Changes Everything Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems First, We Make the Beast Beautiful Trusting Judgements The Man Without Qualities Coders On Grief and Reason Information Smarter Than You Think Guns, Germs And Steel The Ideas Industry Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Code On Human Conduct Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs The Theory of Moral Sentiments Selections from Science and Sanity Working Algorithms to Live By The Year of Magical Thinking Why Learn History Deep Thinking Managing to Change the World The Step to Man Hate, Inc The Attention Merchants The Gutenberg Elegies The Comprehensibility of the Universe The Steerswoman Bourgeois Dignity Heraclitean Fire Letters to a Young Contrarian The Cult of Smart Ego is the Enemy How to Write a Thesis Genius Desert Solitaire The Cost-Benefit Revolution Democracy without Shortcuts A Mathematician's Apology I See Satan Fall Like Lightning The Misinformation Age The Gendered Brain The Semi-Sovereign People The World of Null-A A Random Walk in Science Terror and Consent Mind Hacks Black Hole Blues Information Visualisation The Knowledge Illusion Legislature by Lot Tyll The Good Mood Classical Probability in the Enlightenment Political Discourse Analysis The Last Word Hugh Stretton Three Guineas You Are Here Programming the Universe We Are Bellingcat Art of Doing Science and Engineering Choosing Opennness Red Plenty The Magic Of Thinking Big Active Measures Journey to the End of the Night Want Not Feed Extraterrestrial Six Memos for the Next Millenium The Frailest Thing Refactoring The Open Society and its Enemies The Premonition The Search for Certainty Known and Strange Things Invisible Cities Wedged Permanent Record Some Trick The True Believer A Theory of Justice Under the Influence Albion's Seed The Pea and the Sun Panics and Persecutions The Dawn of Eurasia How the World Was One Dance of the Happy Shades The Great Leveler Who Gets What - And Why The Skills of Argument Reasoning The First Serious Optimist Irrationality The Cybernetics Moment For argument's sake The House of God The Road to Serfdom Punished by Rewards Theory of Games and Economic Behavior Democratic Reason How to Defend Australia Invisible Women Gnomon Antisocial Radical Uncertainty McNamara's Folly Elements of Argumentation True or False Extreme Economies Why They Do It Programmed Inequality When I Was A Child I Read Books The Human Use of Human Beings The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Where Mathematics Come From Topology of Violence Apeirogon The Idea Factory On Writing Well The Nerves of Government On Eating Meat Philosophical Investigations The Three pillars of Zen The Ingenuity Gap The Prophet and the Astronomer Essentialism The Dream Machine Scale An Ugly Truth On Immunity Birdsong Big Data and Democracy Fallacies So Good They Can't Ignore You Simone Weil: An Anthology Practical Ethics Status Anxiety A Few Hares to Chase The Physics of Wall Street Wiser The Gene Straw Dogs Better Presentations A Field Guide to Getting Lost Argument Mining Know-It-All Society Inheritors of the Earth Irrationality The Case Against Education Lost Connections Proofs and Refutations Walking on Lava Underland Capitalist Revolutionary The Filter Bubble Flatland Q is for Quantum Time Travel Mere Civility Exact Thinking in Demented Times Credo and Twelve Poems Interpretable Machine Learning Society of the Spectacle Gravity and Grace Ivan Illich No Good Men Among the Living No Immediate Danger The Digital Sublime The Bloody Chamber Machete Season War in the age of intelligent machines Standing by Words Siddhartha If this isn't nice, what is? Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance A Lot of People Are Saying Sourdough Good Omens The Ascent of John Tyndall Science Fictions #Republic Quack This Way The Realistic Spirit On Tyranny Difficult Conversations A Conflict of Visions Collapse E. Paul Torrance Peirce Causation Feeling Good The Lost Domain Areopagitica The Quest for Community The Evolution of Everything Why Read the Classics? A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics Logic Images of Organization On Having No Head Letters to a Young Mathematician Mental Descartes' Error What Computers Still Can't Do Machines Behaving Badly Generation Gap Intellectual Empathy Time Travel The End of Nature Prime Obsession The Functional Art The Every How Not to be Wrong Other Minds Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science The Book of Humans Paradoxes Prime Movers of Globalization Decolonizing Solidarity forallx Forecast Animal Liberation Believing is Seeing Where India Goes Virtue Politics Clade The Age of Sustainable Development Visual Complex Analysis The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected Ernest Hemingway on Writing The Art of Gathering A Generation of Materialism An Ecotopian Lexicon Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954 Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms Twitter Kant And The Platypus Home Affluence and Influence On the Move The Sociology of Science Cynical Theories The Writer's Map Lumen Naturae The Book Proposal Book Lost in Math The Penguin History of Economics Lying The Accidental Universe The Big Picture Death and the Penguin Bourgeois Equality Introduction to new realism Democratic Reason Black Boomerang The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Power Density The Creative Destruction of Medicine The Box Blueprint The Forest Unseen Conscious Expert Political Judgment The Human Age Our Mathematical Universe Infinitesimal The Dictator's Handbook The Soul of an Octopus Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Macroeconomics and the Phillips Curve Myth The Parasitic Mind On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous We Do Things Differently The Executioner The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt A Guide to the Good Life Statistical Rethinking The Tyranny of Metrics God bless you, Dr Kevorkian Japan's Dietary Transition and its Impacts Proofs From THE BOOK History Becomes Form Chimpanzee Politics Autobiography The Road to Reality The Phantom Tollbooth The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Quantum Computing since Democritus Sleight of Mind Otherwise Known as the Human Condition Emblems of Mind Biohistory Assholes The Body Economic Traumascapes The Great Escape The Inevitable I Contain Multitudes Loitering Brownian Motion and Diffusion Utopia Avenue Thinking and Deciding Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It Better, Not Perfect Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Love and Math Free Speech Why We Fight How Institutions Think The Overstory To Conquer the Air Super Thinking The Ends of the World From Bacteria to Bach and Back Linear Algebra Done Right Big Chicken A Radical Approach to Real Analysis The Field Study Handbook Letters from a Stoic Energy Transitions Elements of Information Theory The Flight of the Garuda The Conquest of Happiness Of Africa Business Adventures Energy Myths and Realities Made in the USA Sorting Things Out The Contest of the Century The Golden Rhinoceros Statistics Dealers of Lightning Logic Primer Significant Digits Eunoia Kendall's Advanced Theory of Statistics Waters of the World The Destruction of the European Jews Adventures of a mathematician Disturbing the Universe Economics in Two Lessons Q.E.D. Who We Are and How We Got Here Fire in the Mind Robert J. Hawke The Annotated Alice Men of Mathematics Aftermath The Bourgeois Virtues Mend the Living Infinity The Silent Epidemic Doing Good Better The Botany of Desire Digital Gold Whole Earth Discipline The Conscious Mind The Lives of a Cell Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy A Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar Still the Iron Age Islam and the Future of Tolerance The Moral Landscape The Dancing Universe The Vital Question Bore Hole On Photography The Invention of Nature Natural Gas Stuff Matters The Demon-Haunted World Gaia The Idealist China's Environmental Crisis Enriching the Earth Energy at the Crossroads Why America is not a new Rome The Human Quest: Prospering within Planetary Boundaries Dance of the Photons The Most Good You Can Do Between the World and Me Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years Evolution of the Social Contract Animal Signals The Origins and History of Consciousness Finding Fibonacci The Neverending Story Uncivil Agreement If Then I Never Thought of It That Way Lie Machines
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