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Herbert Kaufmann: The forest ranger (1967, Resources for the Future) 5 stelle

Review of 'The forest ranger' on 'Goodreads'

5 stelle

A classic of sociology and the study of the commons, which remains captivating and entertaining. Even though the forest ranger is nowadays a mere metaphor of the challenges of administration and regulation, particularly in the area of the commons, I've also learnt a lot about forest management in the USA. The book is packed with figures and concrete data but remains very enjoyable to read.

I'm a broken record on this, but one of my take aways was how important it is for a central bureaucracy to consider the cost of information when working on such a huge space. The passages on the importance of preserving records and local knowledge, and the difficulty of training new rangers, may sound trivial, but I believe they're crucial.

What does the good life—and the good society—look like in the 21st century?

A toxic …

Review of 'Out of the wreckage' on 'Goodreads'

4 stelle

Supremely important topic and I agree with Monbiot that we need a different way of communicating it, but in the end the proposals he makes are underwhelming and unsubstantiated.

Robert C. Martin: The clean coder (2011, Prentice Hall) 4 stelle

In the Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers, legendary software expert …

Review of 'The clean coder' on 'Goodreads'

4 stelle

A good reference, mostly because it's so compact and well thought out. I've not managed to use it that much in practice, but it can be a good starting point for conversations or for self-improvement if you're confused about where you stand.

Murray Bookchin: The Ecology of Freedom (1982) 5 stelle

The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy is a 1982 book by …

Review of 'The Ecology of Freedom' on 'Goodreads'

5 stelle

Bookchin attempts to rewrite the history of humanity to prove that hierarchical structures aren't "natural" or "necessary". Paleosociology is inevitably hard and dubious, but Bookchin doesn't pretend to have the truth in his pocket. Every page challenges us to think differently and consider what we could do together as a society.

Bookchin is very aphorism-friendly so it would be easy to extract a myriad slogans. I've wondered about this passage on ecofascism: «To lecture society about its "insatiable" appetites, as our resource-conscious environmentalists are wont to do, is precisely what the modern consumer is not prepared to hear. And to impoverish society with contrived shortage, economic dislocations, and material deprivation is certain to shift the mystification of needs over to a more sinister social ethos, the mystification of scarcity. This ethos–already crystalllized into the "life-boat ethic", "triage", and a new bourgeois imagery of "claw-and-fang" called /survivalism/–marks the first steps towards …

Natalia Ginzburg: Lessico famigliare (Italian language, 2010) 4 stelle

Family Sayings (Original title Lessico famigliare) is a novel by the Italian author Natalia Ginzburg, …

Review of 'Lessico famigliare' on 'Goodreads'

4 stelle

Rileggere Lessico famigliare non è stata una delusione. Si può godere la pure bellezza linguistica, oppure assaporare l'immagine di una vita famigliare molto particolare eppure molto semplice, o ancora meravigliarsi della macrostoria di cui apprendiamo tramite questa microstoria, come l'episodio della fuga di Turati.

Tommaso Landolfi: La bière du pecheur (Italian language, 1989, Rizzoli) Nessuna valutazione

Review of 'La bière du pecheur' on 'Goodreads'

Nessuna valutazione

Un romanzo sull'impossibilità per il narratore di scrivere un romanzo, per questioni stilistiche e narrative che emergono dalla storia e da tutti gli "inserti meta-narrativi" (mi invento il nome tecnico, vabbè, insomma qualcosa meta-qualcos'altro). Intelligente e divertente, ma leggendolo ho avuto la forte impressione che tale tecnica fosse già superata cinquant'anni fa, insomma non stupisce piú nessuno, e resta senza scopo una certa pesantezza linguistica che quindi non appaga molto. Comunque val la pena di leggerlo, anche perché è corto. Qualche citazione qui: it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tommaso_Landolfi#La_biere_du_pecheur

ha recensito Preferirei di no di Giorgio Boatti (Struzzi -- 527)

Giorgio Boatti: Preferirei di no (Italian language, 2001, Einaudi) Nessuna valutazione

Review of 'Preferirei di no' on 'Goodreads'

Nessuna valutazione

L'argomento è interessante, i dodici straordinari; ma da quel poco che ho letto il libro mi sembra troppo agiografico e poco storico (del resto Boatti è un giornalista), insomma non molto profondo, una semplice somma di biografie. Non ho tempo per finirlo, e non credo che lo riprenderò in prestito.