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Culture & Technology Reading List

Here’s some works, primarily non-fiction, that I especially appreciate, related to the topics of cultural evolution, the cultural niche, technology from an anthropological perspective, design, and the birth of our current global monoculture, modernity.

  • The Secret of Our Success: How Culture is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter, Joseph Henrich
  • What Can A Body Do?: How We Meet The Built World, Sara Hendren
  • Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879, Noel Perrin
  • “A Rant About ‘Technology’, Ursula K. Le Guin
  • “The Failed Globalization of Psychedelic Drugs in the Early Modern World”, Benjamin Breen
  • “Large Language Models as a Cultural Technology”, Alison Gopnik
  • Economics of Money & Banking MOOC, Perry Merhling