Dan Shipper handpicked 28 books, from Plato to Le Guin, to give away at Every's Thesis conference
danshipper · x · 2026-11-07
Every's Thesis conference featured a free bookstore curated by Dan Shipper, with 28 handpicked books given away—one per attendee—ranging from Plato and Heidegger to Le Guin and Melville.
- The list spans philosophy (Being and Time, Protagoras and Meno), history of science (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Against Method), technology and society (Technics and Civilization, The Whale and the Reactor, What Computers Still Cannot Do), and fiction (The Dispossessed, Children of Time)
- Also includes Sherry Turkle's The Second Self, Michael Polanyi's Personal Knowledge, and Hesse's The Glass Bead Game
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