BC Info BotThe Tyee: ‘The Imposters’ and Lies We Tell Ourselves https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/07/05/Imposters-And-Lies-We-Tell/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #CanadianAuthorsAwardforFiction #ScotiabankGillerPrize #TheImperfectionists #UniversityofToronto #ColumbiaUniversity #WilliamDeresiewicz #MalalaYousafzai #CzeslawMilosz #TheImposters #TomRachman
The Virtual Memories ShowNew #email/#substack! Me on an #FDA meeting, new #podcast w/ #BrianDillon, links by/re #AnnTelnaes #CullenMurphy #SebastianSmee #TomFord #StevenWright & #WilliamDeresiewicz + a little art, so GO READ https://vmspod.substack.com/p/talking-drugs
New email! I get sad over the deaths of #BruceMcCall #SamGross & #ChrisReynolds, have trouble writing when not in transit, give you a new #podcast w/ #JohnKropf, offer up great links from #WilliamDeresiewicz #BenSchwartz #WDavidMarx
& more. Go read! Link in bio & at https://vmspod.substack.com/p/the-brush-without-the-hand
StrypeyThere's hope for us yet ...
"[Graeber and Wengrow's] most compelling instance of urban egalitarianism is undoubtedly Teotihuacan, a Mesoamerican city that rivaled imperial Rome, its contemporary, for size and magnificence. After sliding toward authoritarianism, its people abruptly changed course, abandoning monument-building and human sacrifice for the construction of high-quality public housing.”
- #WilliamDeresiewicz, 2021
"And what a gift it is, no less ambitious a project than its subtitle claims. The Dawn of Everything is written against the conventional account of human social history as first developed by Hobbes and Rousseau; elaborated by subsequent thinkers; popularized today by the likes of Jared Diamond, Yuval Noah Harari, and Steven Pinker; and accepted more or less universally."
- #WilliamDeresiewicz, 2021
#TheDawnOfEverything #Hobbes #Rousseau #Yuval NoahHarari
