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Blood in the Machine por Brian Merchant
The true story of what happened the first time machines came for human jobs, when an underground network of 19th …
Lector empedernido, programador, un poco anarquista. Pesimista romántico
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The true story of what happened the first time machines came for human jobs, when an underground network of 19th …
"I am begging scientists not to identify with the particularities of their employment, but with the radical and transhistorical spirit of their endeavor. Not to be loyal to institutions but to truth. To recognize science not as subservient labor or enshrined authority, but as an ideology in the best sense, as a set of driving values. "
"I am begging scientists not to identify with the particularities of their employment, but with the radical and transhistorical spirit of their endeavor. Not to be loyal to institutions but to truth. To recognize science not as subservient labor or enshrined authority, but as an ideology in the best sense, as a set of driving values. "
Increíblemente detallado y claro. Un libro esencial para todo aquel que quiera ver cómo podría funcionar una sociedad post estado, incluso aunque algunas veces la solución que estudia tiene la mediación de este. La reflexión final sobre como el pensamiento político contemporáneo actúa en beneficio de la centralización política es crema

The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. …
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the …
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
This book was once banned at a school for promoting distrust of authority, in response the author sent every kid from that school a copy of the book

Es un libro increíblemente completo y exhaustivo en su análisis de las sociedades de Zomia y cómo evadían la captura …
Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus lived from 10 B.C. to 54 A.D. Despised as a …
Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus lived from 10 B.C. to 54 A.D. Despised as a …
En Enseñar a transgredir, bell hooks, escritora, maestra e intelectual insurgente, escribe sobre un nuevo …
La verdad es que no se muy bien que decir, más allá de que con este libro he aprendido muchas cosas y que eso solo puede ser bueno