here's a bunch of media objects that i'm caring about now. inspired by [rory](https://rorysaur.blog/bookshelf/), who was inspired by [venkatesh](https://www.ribbonfarm.com/now-reading/) last updated: sept 27, 2023.
digesting
- [*The Library Book*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19763966W/The_library_book?edition=key%3A/books/OL26976968M), Susan Orlean
- [*Burning the Books*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL21663538W/Burning_the_Books?edition=key%3A/books/OL29871237M), Richard Ovenden
- [*Fahrenheit 451*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL103123W/Fahrenheit_451?edition=key%3A/books/OL18433725M), Ray Bradbury
- [*Saving Time*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL28023466W/Saving_Time?edition=), Jenny Odell
- [*Deep Oakland*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL28754509W/Deep_Oakland?edition=), Andrew Alden
- [*Psychonauts*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL28806939W/Psychonauts?edition=key%3A/books/OL39564983M)*, Mike Jay
more slowly
- [*Refiguring Speech*](https://openlibrary.org/books/OL39275048M/Refiguring_Speech), Amy Wong
- [*Quantum Mind and Social Science*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL21101984W/Quantum_Mind_and_Social_Science?edition=key%3A/books/OL40676893M), Alexander Wendt
- [*Middlemarch*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20937W/Middlemarch), George Elliot
up next
- [*Entangled Life*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20758206W/Entangled_Life?edition=), Sheldrake
- *[Winnicott](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL78190W/Winnicott)*, Adam Phillips
- *[Machine Love](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.09248.pdf)*, Joel Lehman
- [*In Search of Lost Time*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1190052W/In_Search_of_Lost_Time_%28In_Search_of_Lost_Time_1%29?edition=), Marcel Proust
- [*The Will to Change*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL31119W/The_will_to_change?edition=willtochangemen00hook), bell hooks
- *[Synchronized Society](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL28404815W/Synchronized_Society?edition=)*, Randall Patnode
- [*Helgoland*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL34536663W/Helgoland?edition=), Carlo Rovelli
- [*Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight*](https://www.sfipress.org/books/worlds-hidden-in-plain-sight), David Krakauer
- [*A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24903869W/A_City_Is_Not_a_Computer?edition=key%3A/books/OL34160104M), Shannon Mattern
books on books
- [*The Business of Books*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8864208W/The_Business_of_Books), Andre Schiffrin
- [*Knowing What We Know*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL28019125W/Knowing_What_We_Know?edition=key%3A/books/OL39647029M), Simon Winchester
- [*The Library*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL25282892W/Library?edition=key%3A/books/OL34180188M), Andrew Pettegree & Arthur der Weduwen
- [*The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy*](https://www.nyuengelberg.org/outputs/the-anti-ownership-ebook-economy/), Sarah Lamdan et al.
xanadu
- [Literary Machines](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2042649W/Literary_Machines), Ted Nelson
- [Dealers of Lightning](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18156785W/Dealers_of_lightning_Xerox_PARC_and_the_dawn_of_the_computer_age?edition=dealersoflightni00hilt), Michael Hiltzik
- [*Palo Alto*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL28091094W/Palo_Alto?edition=), Malcolm Harris
- [*Internet for the People*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL22009264W/Internet_for_the_People?edition=), Ben Tarnoff
complexity
* [*Lex Fridman Podcast #376*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdE-waSx-d8) Stephen Wolfram
- [*The Computational Boundary of a Self*](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02688/full), Mike Levin
- [Complexity](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4300551W/Complexity?edition=complexityemergi00wald), M Mitchell Waldrop
evergreen
- [*Combahee River Collective Collective Statement*](https://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Keyword%20Coalition_Readings.pdf)
- *[Severance](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19748973W/Severance)*, Ling Ma
- [*Most Human Human*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20439190W/The_Most_Human_Human?edition=), Brian Christian
- [*Imagined Communities*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1702855W/Imagined_communities?edition=imaginedcommunit0000ande_s3l3), Benedict Anderson
- [*Sand Talk*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20841418W/Sand_Talk?edition=), Tyson Yunkaporta
- [*Poetics*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL151515W/La_Poetica?edition=), Aristotle
- *[Homegoing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17795349W/Homegoing?edition=key%3A/books/OL32812648M)*, Yaa Gyasi