The Soul’s Code
James Hillman
Jungian psychoanalyst James Hillman posits that we are each accompanied by what he variously calls our “acorn,” “daimon,” or “angel”—that mystical being who both protects us and insists on driving us toward our soul’s calling.
The Wall
Marlen Haushofer
On holiday in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman wakes up to find that an invisible wall has descended all around her.
Knowledge workers
On Cubed
“Laborsaving”
On Cubed
Common future
On The Real World of Technology
Knowledge of feelings
Drive your feelings home.
The Other Side of Empathy
Jade E. Davis
“Empathy is an illusion at best, or simply—as is said in moments of deep reflection—bullshit!”
Everything for Everyone
M.E. O’Brien & Eman Abdelhadi
On May 6, 2052, a sex worker named Miss Kelley joined with her neighbors in Hunts Point to take over a produce market and distribute the food to those in need.
Against optimization
On How Infrastructure Works
How Infrastructure Works
Deb Chachra
Good infrastructure is thankless. You only notice it when it fails.
HIM
Geoff Ryman
“Women, of course, can not be sons of God.”
Gather your gossips
Talk is power.
Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
Silvia Federici
Following the threads from the witch hunts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to present-day gendered violence, Silvia Federici shows how—then as now—such oppression is not only a tool of capitalism but a critical component of it.
Undiscovered
On Scott’s Against the Grain & The Steerswoman
Scott’s Against the Grain
James C. Scott
Like another book with the same name, James C. Scott’s Against the Grain argues that the “just so” story of humans’ progression from barbarians to civilized agriculturalists is not the success story we might have thought.
Dry Land
B. Pladek
In the woods of Wisconsin, a young forester named Rand Brandt learns that he can grow any plant he imagines in minutes, merely by touching the dirt.
Move at the speed of trust
On Being Wrong & Emergent Strategy
Toward inquiry
On Being Wrong
Being Wrong
Kathryn Schulz
Kathryn Schulz posits a vision of wrongness as both the inevitable human condition and a generative source from which creativity, art, brilliance, risk-taking, and so much more arises.