My #best reads list for 2025 was, well, hopelessly #eclectic: #CharlesTaylor, #ManueldeLanda, #VaclavSmil, #PhilipKDick, #IrisMurdoch, #AlisdairMacIntyre, #JamesCScott, #HPLovecraft, etc #books #BookSky #BestReads #fiction #nonfiction #reading doncurren.blogspot.com/2026/01/five...

Five Most Notable Books I Read...

Here it is - a couple of days late and a little wonkier than I'd planned. My list of the most notable #books I read in 2025. #BookSky #reading #fiction #nonfiction #novels #sciencefiction #PhilipKDick #IrisMurdoch #CharlesTaylor #ManueldeLanda #Canadianbooks doncurren.blogspot.com/2026/01/five...

Five Most Notable Books I Read...

I’m reading A Hologram for the King by #DaveEggers. Yesterday I finished A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History by #ManuelDeLanda, which was excellent.

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“Similarly, our #individual #bodies and #minds are mere coagulations or decelerations in the flow of #biomass, #genes, #memes and #norms.” - #ManuelDeLanda, A Thousand Years of #Nonlinear #History #philosophy

“the advent of #computers (which are basically automated formal systems) appeared to consolidate the victory of #analytical over #embodied #knowledge, to the point where the difference itself seemed to vanish for all but a few #philosophers.” - #ManuelDeLanda, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear #History

“human #history did not follow a straight line, as if everything pointed toward civilized #societies as humanity’s ultimate goal. On the contrary, at each bifurcation alternative stable states were possible, and once actualized they coexisted and interacted with each other.” - #ManuelDeLanda