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Books (17)

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The Life You Can Save (2009) – Peter Singer
Ends and Means: An Enquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization (1937) – Aldous Huxley
Virtually Amish: Preserving Community at the Internet’s Margins (2022) – Lindsay Ems
Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History (2021) – Peter Baldwin
Microhistories of Technology: Making the World (2023) – Mikael Hård
Bullshit Jobs (2018) – David Graeber
The Fin-de-Siècle World (2014) – Michael Saler
Media, Society, Culture and You: An Introductory Mass Communication Text (2017) – Mark Poepsel
The Origins of Japan’s Modern Forests: The Case of Akita (1985) – Conrad Totman
A River in Peril: The Mekong Under China (2016) – Radio Free Asia
Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials (2017) – Malcolm Harris
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997) – Jared Diamond
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45 (1955) – Milton Mayer
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us (2022) – Rachel Aviv
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power (2014) – Byung-Chul Han

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AN 8.73 Paṭhama Maraṇassati Sutta: The First Discourse on Mindfulness of Death (2018)

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Readings (14)

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The Pastness of the Present and the Presence of the Past (1988) – Richard Taruskin
Landscapes of the Law: Injury, Remedy, and Social Change in Thailand (2009) – David M. Engel
Buddhism and Secular Subjectivities: Individualism and Fragmentation in the Mirror of Secularism (2021) – David L. McMahan
Bill Gates tweeted out a chart and sparked a huge debate about global poverty (2019) – Dylan Matthews
In Praise of Shadows (1933) – Junichiro Tanizaki
It’s hard to be a moral person. Technology is making it harder. (2021) – Sigal Samuel
The Unbearable: Toward an Antifascist Aesthetic (2020) – Jon Baskin
The Moral Economy of High-Tech Modernism (2023) – Henry Farrell and Marion Fourcade
Buddhism and Modernity (1997) – Douglas Powers
Are our short attention spans really getting shorter? (2023) – Emma Smith
The Buddha and the Toilet (2008) – Bhante Shravasti Dhammika

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Audio/Video (28)

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Living at the End of Our World (2021) – Daniel Sharrell, Dorothy Fortenberry, Sam Adler-Bell, and Matthew Sitman
The Fish that (Allegedly) Destroyed California (2021) – Sarcasmitron
Your Mind Is Being Fracked (2024) – D. Graham Burnett and Ezra Klein
Baraka (1992) – Ron Fricke
Corporate Nature: An Insider’s Ethnography of Global Conservation (2022) – Sarah Milne
The Surprising History—and Current Dilemma—of Tuberculosis (2024) – John Green
Frankenstein versus the Volcano (2022) – Tim Harford
The History of Modern Tourism (Interview) (2020) – Eric Zuelow
Illusions of Time (2021) – Michael Stevens
If You’re Reading This, You’re Probably ‘WEIRD’ (2023) – Joseph Henrich
George Orwell’s Love of Nature (2021) – Rebecca Solnit
Gut Instinct: Medicine and Monks (2013) – Mark Gould
Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories (2021) – Jonathan Padwe
On “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights” (2022) – Mathias Risse
I Catch Sight of the Now (2021) – Jorie Graham
How to Hold the Heavy Weight of Now (2022) – Dana Levin and Ada Limón
The Devil’s Rope (2015) – Katie Mingle
On Hannah Arendt’s “Origins of Totalitarianism” (2022) – Amir Eshel
Caring for the Land in Ladakh (2019) – Karine Gagné
Repetition (2019) – Max Cooper and Kevin McGloughlin
A Thousand Cardinals (2022) – Julian Randall and Ada Limón
i woke up and the day caught me (2021) – Kara Jackson and Tracy K. Smith
The Last Archive (Series) – Jill Lepore
Ways of Hearing (Podcast) (2017) – Damon Krukowski

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