Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by Bridle, James: New Paperback (2023) | BookOutlet
ISBN: 9781250872968 - Paperback - Picador - 2023 - Condition: New - Dust Jacket Included - Paperback. Publisher overstock, may contain remainder mark on edge. - Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. Princeton professor Ruha Benjamin believes in the liberating power of the imagination. Deadly systems shaped by mass incarceration, ableism, digital surveillance, and eugenics emerged from the human imagination, but they have real-world impacts. To fight these systems and create a world that works for all of us, we will have to imagine things differently. As Benjamin shows, educators, artists, technologists, and more are experimenting with new ways of thinking and tackling seemingly intractable problems. Drawing from the work of these visionaries--including Black feminists, climate activists, Afrofuturists, and troublemakers of all sorts--Imagination: A Manifesto explores the possibility and practices required to imagine and create more just and habitable worlds.
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Attached: 1 image Astoundingly good book from @edyong209@mastodon.xyz - I really savoured this one. the title #AnImmenseWorld is not wrong - I wondered as I started it just how much you can write about how animals sense the world. It turns out you can write a lot and every single page glimmers with wonder, delight, new insights and knife sharp writing. I enjoyed his previous book very much too, but this is book of the year if not book of the decade territory. Simply superb. #summerReadingChallenge
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