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MIDDLE-CLASS LIFE is itself a collection:
William Davies King • Collections of Nothing
Technologies changed media that changed communicative styles that changed culture that changed thinking and interaction. How we centered ourselves as individuals and the relationships we had to culture, institutions, and the nation-state all transformed.
Zac Gershberg • The Paradox of Democracy
“The Chase,”
Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
remembering how he and a handful of green-souled friends tried to save the world.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
When the multiple layers of bodily movements, impulses, and perceptions are not creatively transformed into creative movements in the directions of freedom, feelings for others, and purpose, people become easily subject to mass media and ideologues who foment populist movements fueled by fear and disorientation.
Don Hanlon Johnson • Diverse Bodies, Diverse Practices: Toward an Inclusive Somatics
The Economy of Cities
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
new social values produce new psychic structures and bodily responses (such as visceral experiences of disgust) and ultimately new rational, “scientific” justifications.
Laura Noren • Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing (NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis Book 1)
In his book Bowling Alone, Robert D. Putnam references