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harryhaller@diasp.eu
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Humans have existed for at least 200,000 years. Yet until recently, historians believed that cities, astronomy, architecture and numeracy did not arrive until agriculture emerged some 12,000 years ago. But what if that was wrong? What if cities existed before agriculture and our hunter gatherer ancestors enjoyed a far more complex existence than we thought? And if they did, then what are the implications for modern political theory - which justifies inequality on the basis that we live in a higher, more sophisticated form of society that was always inevitable? What if there were social revolutions before documented history? And what if humankind had engaged in innumerable experiments in how best to live - including ones that involved the rejection of what we would consider to be ‘civilisation’? Aaron Bastani discusses all of that, and more, with archaeologist and co-author of the bestselling ‘Dawn of Everything’ David Wengrow.

Everything We Think We Know About Early Human History is Wrong | David Wengrow on Downstream #wengrow #bastani #graeber #prehistory #history #archaeology #anthropology #civilisation #agriculture #enlightenment #book ">
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=UR-EN0YIBIg

The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow
[PDF] | [epub]

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tord_dellsen@diasp.eu
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I finished reading Lars Hård yesterday by the Swedish working class author Jan Fridegård. He says this about the book:

The fact that the critics did not manage to kill the book about Lars Hård must partly be due to the fact that they did not understand it, it was not addressed to people of their kind and social group. I wrote it for all the poor outcast, working brothers and sisters. All those who grew up in alleys and cabins carry the smell of poverty with them through life, and they should feel that this book is honestly meant. And everyone who has fought against the power and authorities in society - they should all recognize their situation and feel that they are not alone, I thought when I wrote it. In a word - the story of myself became the story of many others.

(Translated using google translate)

#books #book #LarsHård #JanFridegård

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anonymiss@despora.de
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#NaomiKlein on Her New #Book “Doppelganger” & How #Conspiracy #Culture Benefits Ruling #Elite

source: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/14/naomi_klein_doppelganger

We spend the hour with acclaimed journalist and author Naomi Klein, whose new book #Doppelganger, out this week, explores what she calls “the mirror world,” a growing right-wing alternate universe of misinformation and conspiracies that, while identifying real problems, opportunistically exploits them to advance a hateful and divisive #agenda. Klein explains her initial motivation for the book was her own alter ego, the author Naomi Wolf, for whom she has often been mistaken. Both Naomis entered public consciousness in the 1990s with books critiquing corporate influence, but in recent years Wolf has become one of the most prominent vaccine deniers and purveyors of #COVID-19 #misinformation — making the ongoing confusion about their identities a source of frustration. “It’s very destabilizing,” says Klein, who still urges people to seriously engage with the dangerous ideas propagated in mirror worlds, rather than simply look away. “It’s so hard to look at the reality that we are in right now, with the overlay of endless wars and #climate disasters and massive inequality. And so, whether we’re making up fantastical conspiracy theories or getting lost in our own reflections, it’s all about not looking at that reality that is only bearable if we get outside our own heads and collectively organize.”

#politics #altRight #manipulation #fake #news #propaganda #USA #pandemic #destabilization #democracy

Naomi Klein on Her New Book “Doppelganger” & How Conspiracy Culture Benefits Ruling Elite

We spend the hour with acclaimed journalist and author Naomi Klein, whose new book Doppelganger out this week explores what she calls “the mirror world,” a growing right-wing alternate universe of misinformation and conspiracies that, while...

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anonymiss@despora.de
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#Amazon restricts authors from self-publishing more than three #books a day after #AI concerns

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/20/amazon-restricts-authors-from-self-publishing-more-than-three-books-a-day-after-ai-concerns

The new sets of rules come after Amazon removed suspected AI-generated books that were falsely listed as being written by the #author #JaneFriedman. Earlier this month, books about #mushroom foraging listed on Amazon were reported as likely to have been AI-generated and therefore containing potentially dangerous advice. AI-generated travel books have also flooded the site.

The AI #attack on #humanity has begun. Reviews as well as books are coming under the #control of AI. Soon it will no longer be possible to buy books from humans, because they can no longer be found in the confusion.

#book #limit #online #marketplace #economy #problem #fail #future #news

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