May 2023 Books and Reading Notes

May was a slightly better month for reading than April, if only because there was more daylight to be had and I had the occasional opportunity to sit on the porch with a glass of wine.

Acquisitions

20. Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes [2023.05.07]
21. China Mieville, The City & The City [2023.05.07]
22. Kaja and Phil Foglio, Girl Genius vol. 20: The Exorcism Engines (Studio Foglio) [2023.05.30]

Reading List

Books

28. Alexander Darwin, The Combat Codes (ebook), self-published [2023.05.06]
29. Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes [2023.05.07]
30. Arne De Boever and Warren Neidich (editors), The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, Part 1 [2023.05.24]
31. Sayaka Murata (Ginny Tapley Takemori, translator), Earthlings [2023.05.28]
32. Angela Boord, Fortune’s Fool (ebook), self-published [2023.05.29]

Short Prose

55. Franco “Bifo” Berardi, “The Mind’s We: Morphogenesis and the Chaosmic Spasm, Social Recomposition, Technological Change and Neuroplasticity”, The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, part 1 [2023.05.08]
56. Jason Smith, “Soul on Strike”, The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, part 1 [2023.05.08]
57. Tiziana Terranova, “Ordinary Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism”, The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, part 1 [2023.05.13]
58. Jodi Dean, “Collective Desire and the Pathology of the Individual”, The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, part 1 [2023.05.14]
59. Arne de Boever, “‘All of us go a little crazy at times’: Capital and Fiction in a State of Generalized Psychosis”, The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, part 1 [2023.05.15]
60. Jonathan Beller, “Pathologistics of Attention, The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, part 1 [2023.05.19]
61. Bruce Wexler, “Neuroplasticity, Culture and Society”, The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, part 1 [2023.05.22]
62. Warren Neidich, “Neuropower: Art in the Age of Cognitive Capitalism”, The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, part 1 [2023.05.24]