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How to Do Nothing
- Resisting the Attention Economy
- Auteur(s): Jenny Odell
- Narrateur(s): Rebecca Gibel
- Durée: 8 h et 10 min
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Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity...doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Our attention is the most precious - and overdrawn - resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind's role in the environment, and find more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress.
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ROBOT VOICE narration is UNLISTENABLE!
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-03-17
- How to Do Nothing
- Resisting the Attention Economy
- Auteur(s): Jenny Odell
- Narrateur(s): Rebecca Gibel
Interesting discussion, narrator is difficult
Évalué le: 2025-02-18
I greatly enjoyed the writing and research. WARNING: the narrator's voice and inflections were so robotic and disconnected from the text I gave up listening several times. It was hard to believe it was an actual person reading. This is not an easy listen. The author should ask to have it re-narrated.
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How to Be an Artist
- Auteur(s): Jerry Saltz
- Narrateur(s): Jerry Saltz
- Durée: 2 h et 20 min
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Art has the power to change our lives. For many, becoming an artist is a lifelong dream. But how to make it happen? In How to Be an Artist, Jerry Saltz, one of the art world’s most celebrated and passionate voices, offers an indispensable handbook for creative people of all kinds. From the first sparks of inspiration - and how to pursue them without giving in to self-doubt - Saltz offers invaluable insight into what really matters to emerging artists: originality, persistence, a balance between knowledge and intuition, and that most precious of qualities, self-belief.
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Blunt
- Écrit par Ryan Leacock le 2023-10-17
- How to Be an Artist
- Auteur(s): Jerry Saltz
- Narrateur(s): Jerry Saltz
for the uninitiated and those needing a push
Évalué le: 2023-09-02
Some of the art making cliches here are squirmy but Saltz has a genuine enthusiasm and really wants to be useful. Much of it seems best aimed at first-year undergraduate studio art students, I feel, but even then it's quite a lot of posturing and bluster to take in.
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Material Girls
- Why Reality Matters for Feminism
- Auteur(s): Kathleen Stock
- Narrateur(s): Kathleen Stock
- Durée: 8 h et 43 min
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Material Girls is a timely and trenchant critique of the influential theory that we all have an inner feeling known as a gender identity, and that this feeling is more socially significant than our biological sex. Professor Kathleen Stock surveys the philosophical ideas that led to this point, and closely interrogates each one, from De Beauvoir's statement that, 'One is not born, but rather becomes a woman' (an assertion she contends has been misinterpreted and repurposed), to Judith Butler's claim that language creates biological reality, rather than describing it.
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thoughtful, provocative & good faith
- Écrit par kay le 2024-02-01
- Material Girls
- Why Reality Matters for Feminism
- Auteur(s): Kathleen Stock
- Narrateur(s): Kathleen Stock
a thorough, accurate, and considerate book
Évalué le: 2023-04-09
Contrary to one of the reviewers here, the book presents the many difficult facets of this rapidly changing phenomenon in all of its chapters. It will be uncomfortable for those who have unnecessarily taken up sides and refuse to be open to questions. It presents thorough understanding, empathetic but challenging research, and sincere inquiry. Highly recommend this book and author.
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The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
- Auteur(s): Louise Perry
- Narrateur(s): Louise Perry
- Durée: 6 h et 4 min
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The sexual revolution has liberated us to enjoy a heady mixture of erotic freedom and personal autonomy. Right? Wrong, argues Louise Perry in her provocative new book.
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I guess I am a post liberal feminist :)
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2024-04-14
- The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
- Auteur(s): Louise Perry
- Narrateur(s): Louise Perry
Beautifully written and compelling arguments
Évalué le: 2023-02-11
I listened to this book over 2 days and found it smooth to follow, exceptionally well narrated by the author, and a compelling listen. I was very moved by many of the poignant anecdotal examples she collected and her analysis was always fair and thorough. I felt I learned a lot from the book and will follow this author closely.
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The New Puritans
- How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
- Auteur(s): Andrew Doyle
- Narrateur(s): Andrew Doyle
- Durée: 11 h et 28 min
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Leading a cultural revolution driven by identity politics and so-called 'social justice', the new puritanism movement is best understood as a religion - one that makes grand claims to moral purity and tolerates no dissent. In The New Puritans, Andrew Doyle powerfully examines the underlying belief-systems of this ideology and how it has risen so rapidly to dominate all major political, cultural and corporate institutions. He reasons that, to move forward, we need to understand where these New Puritans came from and what they hope to achieve.
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Examples of how history repeats are brilliant examples of how we can defeat nonsense again
- Écrit par Ina_M le 2024-07-15
- The New Puritans
- How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
- Auteur(s): Andrew Doyle
- Narrateur(s): Andrew Doyle
Thank you Andrew Doyle!
Évalué le: 2023-01-14
This is a brilliant, reassuring book that quite fairly considers all of the stakes at play within the western world's fixation on social justice and identity politics. Doyle includes countless illuminating references/examples from philosophy, literature, history, popular culture, and journalism to bring richness to his investigations and observations. I agree with him that education must provide better tools for young students to understand how to think, not what to think. I just finished listening to this whole book in a single day, and I plan to now listen to it again!
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The Righteous Mind
- Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
- Auteur(s): Jonathan Haidt
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Haidt
- Durée: 11 h et 1 min
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In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. His starting point is moral intuition - the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right.
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Interesting listen, repetitive
- Écrit par Pablo le 2018-06-30
- The Righteous Mind
- Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
- Auteur(s): Jonathan Haidt
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Haidt
This author never fails.
Évalué le: 2023-01-04
Jonathon Haidt always comes forward with such thoughtful observations, research, and commentary on very difficult subjects. This book is excellent and I appreciate his thorough thoughtfulness. His books never fail to bring deeper understanding.
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The End of Gender
- Debunking the Myths About Sex and Identity in Our Society
- Auteur(s): Debra W. Soh
- Narrateur(s): Debra Soh
- Durée: 7 h et 38 min
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International sex researcher, neuroscientist, and columnist Debra Soh debunks popular gender myths in this scientific examination of the many facets of gender identity that “is not only eminently reasonable and beautifully-written, it is brave and vital” (Ben Shapiro, number-one New York Times best-selling author).
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A MUST read if you value unbiased knowledge
- Écrit par Marty le 2020-10-19
- The End of Gender
- Debunking the Myths About Sex and Identity in Our Society
- Auteur(s): Debra W. Soh
- Narrateur(s): Debra Soh
Brilliant and brave. Thank you!
Évalué le: 2023-01-04
Excellent book that treads on difficult ground and does so as objectively as possible. Highly recommend. We need open discussion like this.
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Trans
- When Ideology Meets Reality
- Auteur(s): Helen Joyce
- Narrateur(s): Helen Joyce
- Durée: 10 h et 32 min
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Gender identity ideology is about more than Twitter storms and using the right pronouns. In just 10 years, laws, company policies, school and university curricula, sport, medical protocols, and the media have been reshaped to privilege self-declared gender identity over biological sex. People are being shamed and silenced for attempting to understand the consequences of redefining "man" and "woman". While compassion for transgender lives is well-intentioned, it is stifling much-needed inquiry into the significance of our bodies.
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Amazingly researched, brilliantly put
- Écrit par I haven't been able to erase very well off of it le 2023-02-16
- Trans
- When Ideology Meets Reality
- Auteur(s): Helen Joyce
- Narrateur(s): Helen Joyce
Exceptionally well researched and objective
Évalué le: 2022-05-22
Joyce covers the trans ideology movement with extensive research, compassion, caution, and reason. Highly recommend this book.
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The War on the West
- Auteur(s): Douglas Murray
- Narrateur(s): Douglas Murray
- Durée: 12 h et 42 min
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In The War on the West, Douglas Murray shows how many well-meaning people have been fooled by hypocritical and inconsistent anti-West rhetoric. After all, if we must discard the ideas of Kant, Hume, and Mill for their opinions on race, shouldn’t we discard Marx, whose work is peppered with racial slurs and anti-Semitism? Embers of racism remain to be stamped out in America, but what about the raging racist inferno in the Middle East and Asia?
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One of the best audiobooks I've ever purchased
- Écrit par Mark le 2022-05-13
- The War on the West
- Auteur(s): Douglas Murray
- Narrateur(s): Douglas Murray
Brilliantly, fairly argued.
Évalué le: 2022-05-19
A worthwhile, reasoned response to contemporary woke disparaging of the west. Thank you Mr. Murray,
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A Carnival of Snackery
- Diaries (2003-2020)
- Auteur(s): David Sedaris
- Narrateur(s): David Sedaris, Tracey Ullman
- Durée: 17 h et 8 min
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If it’s navel-gazing you’re after, you’ve come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street, pedestrians being whacked over the head or gathering to watch as a man considers leaping to his death. There’s a dirty joke shared at a book signing, then a dirtier one told at a dinner party - lots of jokes here. Plenty of laughs.
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Very nice
- Écrit par Stephen Sooley le 2021-10-25
- A Carnival of Snackery
- Diaries (2003-2020)
- Auteur(s): David Sedaris
- Narrateur(s): David Sedaris, Tracey Ullman
Droll brilliance.
Évalué le: 2022-05-03
This could have been even longer and I would still want more. Tracey Ullman really is exceptional with her voice.
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