Naomi Klein

Empire of AI by Karen Hao

Um All right, so this is a little bit obvious, but but but Empire of AI um uh by Karen Hao. Um just because it's it it's just such an incredible combination of just on the ground globe-trotting investigative reporting making the material inputs and human inputs of AI visible, but then it has this big idea thesis around empire building, um which I think is really true.

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Fire Alarm by Michael Löwy

And the third book is a book called Fire Alarm, Reading Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History by Michael Löwy. Um and Walter Benjamin is the is this is the text that he wrote um right before he took his own life fleeing the Gestapo in 1940. Um and it gets at this idea of the way history doesn't repeat, but compounds in Benjamin's term, [music] piling wreckage upon wreckage. Naomi Klein, thank you very much. Thank you so much, Ezra.

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Here Where We Live Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple

Um I guess we've been talking around this, but um my my friend Molly Crabapple has an absolutely brilliant book coming out uh called Here Where We Live Is Our Country, the story of the Jewish um Bund, and it's available for pre-order, comes out in April, and I think it gets at what an alternative story of hearness could be, of really committing to here, which is what the Jewish Labor Bund was was doing before between the wars.

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