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Brendan Schlagel

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Oct 30, 2020

Shortlist of *people I'd like to read/learn about more* Bret Victor bell hooks Ursula Franklin Teju Cole Rachel Carson Buckminster Fuller Paulo Freire Donna Haraway Mary Oliver Anna Tsing Anne Carson James Baldwin Audre Lorde Umberto Eco Noam Chomsky Vaclav Smil Who's on yours?

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Henry

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· Oct 30, 2020

is there a word for the equivalent of an anti-library (your unread books) but for people.. like people you want to get to read about or understand better? anti-people sounds bad haha

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This is so close to my list. Such a good showing of anthropologists on here! Add Ivan Illich, Tim Ingold, Genevieve Bell, Paul Dourish, Lucy Suchman, Lynda Barry, Erving Goffman, John McPhee, Mortimer Adler And then double up on Bret Victor because I cannot get enough.

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Brendan Schlagel

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Oct 30, 2020

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Ooh yeah +100 to Illich, Barry, McPhee. Some others here I have to look up further, thx! (A few more faves I should add: Douglas Hofstadter, Christopher Alexander, Jane Jacobs) ((I have too much fun making this kind of list, could go all day lol))

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