Member: freetrader

CollectionsYour library (1,375), Read but unowned (290), Favs -SF (16), Favs - Fiction (11), Wishlist (34), To read (1), All collections (1,693)

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Tagsfiction (423), SF (189), philosophy (171), aula (111), sociology (93), religion (93), history (90), political philosophy (86), b2009 (68), (66) — see all tags

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Recommendations7 recommendations

GroupsScience Fiction Fans, sociology of science / science and technology studies

Favorite authorsHans Achterhuis, Jean Améry, Naomi Klein, Lynn Townsend White (Shared favorites)

About meStudied math and some philosphy, later some more philosophy and sociology. Came down to earth after reading False Dawn, The Shock Doctrine and (re)reading The Report of the Club of Rome. Still like some science and technology studies in between, though.

My main program being somewhat like this:

OK we are heading for environmental collapse. I don't believe in constructing utopia's out of the blue, you have to understand what is happening in order to do something about it. So you need to study history / comparative (how come, why us), Sociology (mechanisms at work), etc.

About my libraryOnly recently discovered i am a librarian. Buy more books now. preferably second hand. Themes in non fiction:

- Sociology, Political / social philosophy
- Science and technology studies (including philosophy of science, technology, sociology of science, history of ..)
- Religion / Buddhism
- Socialism / marxism / left
- Globalization / Neoliberalism / economy
- Sciences (mainly popular)
- Computers / Informatics / AI / AL
- The miracle of the west
- Ecophilosophy / environmental / green
- assorted

Homepagehttp://www.xs4all.nl/~vstekst/jan/

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LocationLeiden, The Netherlands

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Member sinceJan 14, 2009