The Library
Books, papers, and talks I think are worth paying attention to.
Accompanied by loose and opinionated notes.
To see things I haven't read browse the Anti Library
If Then
Jill Lepore
Sand Talk
Tyson Yunkaporta
Work
James Suzman
Gods of the Upper Air
Charles King
Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value
David Graeber
Where The Action Is
Paul Dourish
Speculative Everything
Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby
Governing the Commons
Elinor Ostrom
The Timeless Way of Building
Christopher Alexander
Radical Markets
Eric Posner and Glen Weyl
Encoding Race, Encoding Class
Sareeta Amrute
The Innovators
Walter Isaacson
Natural-Born Cyborgs
Andy Clark
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Anna Tsing
Coding Freedom
Gabriella Coleman
A Cyborg Manifesto
Donna Haraway
Divining a Digital Future
Genevieve Bell & Paul Dourish
Sweetness and Power
Sidney Mintz
Working In Public
Nadia Eghbal
Anthropology: Why It Matters
Tim Ingold
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
Participant Observation
James P. Spradley
Visual Explanations
Edward Tufte
Imagined Communities
Benedict Anderson
Metaphor: A Practical Introduction
Zoltan Kovecses
The Ritual Process
Victor Turner
Finite and Infinite Games
James Carse
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman
Making
Tim Ingold
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
George Lakoff
Purity and Danger
Mary Douglas
Addiction by Design
Natasha Dow Schull
The Interpretation of Cultures
Clifford Geertz
Descartes Error
Antonio Damasio
Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff & Mark Johnson
Meat Planet
Ben Wugaft
The Gift
Marcel Mauss
We Have Never Been Modern
Bruno Latour
The Mindful Body
Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Margaret Lock
The Plural Economy of Gifts and Markets
Ioana Negru
The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Technology
Alfred Gell