iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

“our institutions are not yet suited either to the instincts developed by our new circumstances, or to our real beliefs.” Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell

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““We did agree, that you wouldn’t do that.” “I have to do what I love, Wilf. I wasn’t loving not doing it.” The Peripheral — William Gibson

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““One thinks one’s something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe. But in fact one’s merely a slight delay in the ongoing march of entropy.” Island — Aldous Huxley

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 05/10/2026

“and I knew beyond the shadow of a hope that to be female is to be mirror and honeypot, servant and judge, the terrible Rhadamanthus for whom he must perform but whose judgment is not human and whose services are at anyone’s command,” The Female Man — Joanna Russ

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“Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.” The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are — Alan Watts

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 05/10/2026

“The ideal way to spend a summer vacation. Hot, alone, and free, not bothering anyone, and nobody bothering me.” Sputnik Sweetheart — Haruki Murakami and Philip Gabriel

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 04/10/2026

““One thinks one’s something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe. But in fact one’s merely a slight delay in the ongoing march of entropy.” Island — Aldous Huxley

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 04/10/2026

“the scientific evidence very robustly supported the contention that people living at adequacy, and confident they would stay there (a crucial point), were healthier and thus happier than rich people.” The Ministry for the Future: A Novel — Kim Stanley Robinson

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 04/10/2026

“The difficulty of keeping human infants alive has necessitated the deep, terrible way we fall in love with each other;” Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body — Sara Pascoe

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“this fact implies the latent possibility of replacing metallic money with tokens made of some other material, i.e. symbols which would perform the function of coins.” Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx

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“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps most fatal to true happiness.” The Conquest of Happiness — Bertrand Russell and Daniel C. Dennett

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“Is it any wonder that no truly respectable society has evertrusted its artists? But our society, being troubled and bewildered, seeking guidance, sometimes puts an entirely mistaken trust in its artists, using them as prophets and futurologists.” The left hand of darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 02/10/2026

“They were not merely sentences but compressed moments that burst when you read them.” The Braindead Megaphone — George Saunders

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“A Christmas Carol not The Signalman, Canterville Ghost perhaps but not Lost Hearts, the English ghost story it’s marvellous one of the things” Jerusalem — Alan Moore

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 01/10/2026

“His soul came out of hiding.” The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 01/10/2026

“bellows to himself in the darkness behind his eye” Under Milk Wood — Dylan Thomas

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 30/09/2026

“Be fully aware of what you’re doing, and work becomes the yoga of work, play becomes the yoga of play, everyday living becomes the yoga of everyday living.” Island — Aldous Huxley

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 30/09/2026

“That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way.” Walden — Henry David Thoreau

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 30/09/2026

“stiff as Medusa's optometrist.” Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel — Tom Robbins

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 29/09/2026

“Corporations that run private prisons and detention centers made over five billion dollars in combined annual profits in the United States over the past decade.” Undoing Border Imperialism — Harsha Walia and Andrea Smith

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 28/09/2026

““Because it doesn’t fit your principles. Men always have theories, and things always have to fit them.” The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 28/09/2026

“In the Red Bull mirror behind the counter, the cartoon bull noticed her, winked. She dodged eye contact. She hated it when they spoke to you, called you by your name.” The Peripheral — William Gibson

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 28/09/2026

“Beliefs, like communicable diseases, are highly infectious.” Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe — Richard Holloway

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 27/09/2026

“Hence we nowhere find a more shameless squandering of human labour-power for despicable purposes than in England, the land of machinery.” Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 26/09/2026

“The giant stands on this sheet of paper, and we can only see the trace where its feet touch the paper.” The Three-Body Problem — Cixin Liu and Ken Liu

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 26/09/2026

“No sane man trusts the British justice system.” Shantaram: A Novel — Gregory David Roberts

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 25/09/2026

““While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” Timequake — Kurt Vonnegut

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 25/09/2026

“You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution.” The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 24/09/2026

“Mucho Maas, home, bounded through the screen door. “Today was another defeat,” he began.” The Crying of Lot 49 — Thomas Pynchon

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 24/09/2026

“Simply on the basis of its temporality, digital communication conveys affect more than it transmits feeling. Shitstorms are streams of affect. They represent exemplary phenomena of digital communication.” Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power — Byung-Chul Han and Erik Butler

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 23/09/2026

“He might have warmed up more to culture if it didn’t act quite so compulsory.” Jerusalem — Alan Moore

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 23/09/2026

“The proud pragmatism of civilized intelligence was being insulted again by goofy nature.” Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel — Tom Robbins

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 23/09/2026

“The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.” The Valley of Fear — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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“What’s the point of physics if you can’t trust it with your life?” The Freeze-Frame Revolution — Peter Watts

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“The giant stands on this sheet of paper, and we can only see the trace where its feet touch the paper.” The Three-Body Problem — Cixin Liu and Ken Liu

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“The production of surplus-value, or the making of profits, is the absolute law of this mode of production.” Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx

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