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The Anti Library

Books I haven't read, but like the idea of having read.

The Art of Game Design

Jesse Schell

Beyond the Valley

Ramesh Srinivasan

Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description

Tim Ingold

Computers as Theatre

Brenda Laurel

The Emperor of All Maladies

Siddhartha Mukherjee

How to Read a Book

Mortimer J. Adler

Lines: A Brief History

Tim Ingold

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

On Kings

Marshall Sahlins and David Graeber

Surfaces and Essences

Douglas Hofstadter & Emmanuel Sander

Two Bits

Christopher M. Kelty

The Way We Think

Gilles Fauconnier

What Algorithms Want

Ed Finn

The Utopia of Rules

David Graeber

Affective Computing

Rosalind W. Picard

Ghost Work

Mary L. Gray & Siddharth Suri

Homo Ludens

Johan Huizinga

Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions

Lucy Suchman

Distinction

Pierre Bourdieu

The Embodied Mind

Francisco J. Varela, Eleanor Rosch, and Evan T. Thompson

Hyperobjects

Timothy Morton

Blackfoot Physics

F. David Peat

Braiding Sweetgrass

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Europe and the People Without History

Eric Wolf

Global Magic

Alf Hornborg

Information Doesn't Want to Be Free

Cory Doctorow

Supersizing the Mind

Andy Clark

Tools for Conviviality

Ivan Illich

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