Category: Reviews
How to Drive the World Over the Precipice – Overshoot by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton
Emissions from a factory’s chimneys drift into the evening sky. ©Freepik Link copied! Climate change is happening: the global average temperature has risen significantly. In […]
Ukraine: Love+War, a Review
This volume is comprehensive, offering both the pre-2022 history as well as a deep look at the impact of the 2022 invasion. Giving this overview through photographs elevates this title well beyond a typical history book.
Mapping the Planetary Costs of AI: Kate Crawford’s Atlas of AI in Review
The very first thing to do when even considering employing AI is to look at the power infrastructure that produces it and makes its existence possible in the first place. As Crawford notes, AI is the result of extracting human life through data, raw materials, and labor.
There Is Nothing Natural About Patriarchy: Saini’s New Book Explores How Men Came to Rule
For Saini, a key to understanding patriarchy is seeing it as constantly changing: not just a system that is, but a structure that is shaped and created over and over again.