Stuff tagged anarchism
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January 2012 Reading
I’m not a typography nerd. Got it? Well, OK, perhaps I am. A bit. Nerds and non-nerds alike will enjoy Lupton’s wonderful book. It manages to be entertaining and informative without feeling too didactic. The coverage of the history of typography is so much smoother and easier to follow than just about anything else I've read that its worth picking up just for that. Lupton also covers some basic design concepts (grids and such) in a thoroughly non-partisan way. She gives the reader a context and conceptual background allowing her to ask why one might use a typeface as much as which typefaces exist. She even prompted me to learn how to do proper apostrophes in html (’, if you wanna know)!
2012-01-13 by Charlie Harvey Durruti In The Spanish Revolution, by Abel Paz Read More …- 2012-01-29T12:42:23Z
- Published: 12:42:23 on Sunday, 29 January
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November 2011 Reading
The original Pragmatic Programmer book was pretyy influential on me when it came out and I've really enjoyed a few other books in the series. This book is no exception to that. There's a lot of sensible advice for people who make their living writing code in it. The style and focus can smetimes feel a little like one of those "business self-help" books, but its saved by the writers's gentle humour and lots of real life examples. I think it'd be better to read after the original pragmatic programmer book before this, but there is still plenty to learn.
2011-11-30 by Charlie Harvey History of the Makhnovist Movement, by Peter Arshinov Read More …- 2011-11-30T19:19:05Z
- Published: 19:19:05 on Wednesday, 30 November
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July 2011 Reading
Parecon is an interesting and thoughtful answer to the "but what do you want" question that anticapitalists are always asked. I got occasionally annoyed at its often rather simplistic, homespun style. It kind of reminded me of Berkman's ABC of Anarchism in that way. Which is a shame because there's some great and insightful contributions in there and Albert has one of the most coherent and pragmatic visions of a post capitalist world of any thinkers working today. Here's a video of Michael Albert talking about the concepts behind parecon, courtesy of London Indymedia.
2011-06-22 by Charlie Harvey
Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino Read More …- 2011-09-03T10:33:06Z
- Published: 10:33:06 on Saturday, 3 September
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These pages contain bits of html, perl, sysdminning, activism, politics and that for your perusal, enjoyment and edification. Or something. All the background stuff is done with object orientated perl, thanks to the CPAN magic of HTML::Template and DBI. Read More …
- 2011-03-13T10:25:48Z
- Published: 10:25:48 on Sunday, 13 March
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January 2011 Reading
This is a frankly awesome critique of the (mid-90s) left's 'master' narritive of totalised global capitalism. The books central insights are gleaned from feminism and are all about the possibility of imagining non-capitalist economies and acknowledging that those economies actually exist alongside and inside global capitalism. Like a sort of Judith Butler for Marxian political economists.
2011-01-29 by Charlie Harvey
The Situationists and The City, Ed Tom McDonough Read More …- 2011-02-25T22:16:20Z
- Published: 22:16:20 on Friday, 25 February
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February 2011 Reading
Turing's 1936 paper on Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem is something of a geek classic, introducing important concepts like the Universal Turing Machine. I'm no mathemetician even though I readily admit to being a bit of a geek. So its great to have a writer like Petzold to hold my hand. Petzold adds the context, both mathematical and biographical as well as guiding you through the paper gently but without being patronizing. Funnily enough I started reading this on 24 Feb, the day before Bletchley Park announced they had bought Turing's papers. Bit of a coincidence that.
2011-02-25 by Charlie Harvey
The American Future, Simon Schama Read More …- 2011-02-25T22:07:13Z
- Published: 22:07:13 on Friday, 25 February
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