Pandemic Unwrapped

Fiction

• Stoner by John Williams
• The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Nonfiction

• Goodbye to All That by Joan Didion
• Digital Technology and Democratic Theory edited by Lucy Bernholz, Hélène Landemore, Rob Reich
• The Infinite Machine by Camilla Russo
• How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate by Isabella Weber

Articles

• Why Authoritarian Successor Parties Succeed in Democracies by Justin Kempf
• Byung-Chul Han: “I Practice Philosophy as Art” by Gesine Borcherdt
• NFTs, Sign Value & The Financialization of Pop Culture by Matt Whang
• Other Internet
  • Squad Wealth
  • Market Protocol Fit
  • Headless Brands

Videos, Interviews, Lectures

• Who is Alejandro Jodorowsky?
• Running
  • Craig Engels Returns and Hobbs Kessler Arrives
  • Jakob Ingebrigsten claims 1500m gold, Tokyo Olympics
  • Newbury Park’s Record XC Race
• Slavoj Žižek
  • Down with Ideology
  • Oxford Union Address
  • Down with Ideology?
• New Economies
  • Bitcoin and the End of History
  • Technology and the Future World of Work
  • The Creator Economy
  • Technofuedalism
• Music
  • Hiatus Kaiyote: Live in Revolt
  • Hiatus Kaiyote: Live at The Village Underground
  • Mariya Takeuchi: Plastic Love
  • Passion Pit: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Movies, Television Series

• The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology by Sophie Fiennes
• Mulholland Drive directed by David Lynch [^1]
• Dune directed by Denis Villenueve
• Jodorowsky’s Dune directed by Frank Pavich
• Arcane created by Christian Linke, Alex Yee
• Succession created by Jesse Armstrong [^2]
• Fleabag created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
• Cowboy Bepop directed by Shinichirō Watanabe
• Belle directed by Mamoru Hosada

[^1]: This is the girl.

[^2]: How can you not like the dynamic between Nicholas Braun and Tom? Nicholas is the kind of actor that always evokes a tinge of smile no matter how hard you suppress it.