Salon
Salon is a philosophy, science, and fiction reading group. We seek material that subverts traditional thinking and reframes beliefs that we take for granted. We are interested in questions of humanity, technology, expression, life, and more.
An Incomplete and Out-of-Order Reading List
Book Chapters
- Self-Organized Criticality, Chs. 1-3 - Per Bak
- Meeting the Universe Halfway, Ch. 1 - Karen Barad
- Slanted Truths, various essays - Lynn Margulis
- A Thousand Plateaus, Ch. 1: The Rhizome - Deleuze & Guattari
- Care of the Soul, Ch. 7: Gifts of Depression - Thomas Moore
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Ch. 1 - Paolo Freire
Short Stories
- The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Fiction - Ted Chiang
- Exhalation - Ted Chiang
- The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate - Ted Chiang
- The Garden of Forking Paths - Jorge Borges
- Dreaming is a Private Thing - Isaac Asimov
Articles, Essays, etc.
- The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin
- What is it Like to Be a Bat? - Thomas Nagel
- Art_ificial Intelligence: Dreams, Data, and Neuro-aesthetics in the Age of AI - Sade J Abiodun & Luke Nickel
- Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective - Donna Haraway
- The Celebration of Death: Two Folk Tales about Death
- A Conversation with My Father - Grace Paley
- Dionysus Baby-Faced God of the Swarm, the Hive, the Vine, the Emergent Mind - Sophie Strand
- The Fairies Are Back and They're Even Smaller: the meeting of magic in the microscopic world of smalls - Sophie Strand
- How Fungi Make Our Worlds and Shape our Futures - Merlin Sheldrake
Poetry
- The Prophet - Khalil Gibran
- The Walls Do Not Fall - HG
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A collection of short stories: