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Every old white Argentinian anthropologist used to be like “we locked these native people up in a cage and put them on display and they’re depressed and don’t rly move around a lot. That must mean their whole race is naturally depressed and lethargic.” And everyone else was like wow that’s fascinating, let’s use this to “scientifically” support our genocide of them.

So far this has reinforced my avoidance of golden age sci-fi and the whole notion of science fiction creating a better future is bullshit, new wave is where it’s at

pretty neat stuff so far

"For example, in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1813, Kafka remarks in a humorous tone."

This must have been a remarkable letter, seeing as both people were born in the 1880s.

This book is honestly pretty questionable but ugh I gotta commit, I hope something good comes along soon

First half done. Was an interesting, if short, work on the appropriation of scifi aesthetics (and hope) by big business

Some concerning factual errors (anthropocene dot info was created NOT to celebrate the anthropocene but to warn against it, and Tesla does not have a monopoly on electric cars) and a weird reach (calling albedo brightening racial??¿? Chat is reflecting light a race thing)

But I've already bought the book so I might as well read on

Habia empezado bien pero me estanque porq el primer capitulo no me gusto/no lo entendi/ no me intereso. Si recuerdo que el segundo eraun poco mas interesante pero de igual manera quede estancada