by Amanda Reeves | Sep 7, 2023 | Futures Book Club
The Manual of Design Fiction is our featured read for September! The Manual of Design Fiction – by Julian Bleecker, Nick Foster, Fabien Girardin & Nicolas Nova The definitive book on design fiction from the originators of the practice, providing a compelling...
by Amanda Reeves | May 30, 2023 | Field notes, Futures Book Club
Is it better to imagine doom and gloom futures as a cautionary tale, or create somewhat naïve scenarios that present a cheerfully optimistic future? This question has come up in the Futures Book Club as we sink our teeth into Rob Hopkins’ book From What Is To...
by Amanda Reeves | Apr 2, 2023 | Field notes, Futures Book Club
Hello friends, Things may have been quiet in my published writings, but I’ve been head down working behind the scenes. I’ve recently begun tutoring for University of Technology Sydney (UTS), on a fantastic new undergrad subject called Envisioning Futures...
by Amanda Reeves | Feb 3, 2022 | Futures Book Club
One segment of my own antilibrary. Yes, I’m the type of monster who organises her books by spine colour. Nicholas Nassim Taleb opens Black Swan, his book on the impact of the highly improbable, with the story of Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: The writer Umberto Eco...
by Amanda Reeves | Jan 6, 2022 | Futures Book Club
MY LIVE-TWEETED NOTES FROM READING BULLSHIT JOBS: A THEORY BY DAVID GRAEBER. YOU CAN VISIT THE ORIGINAL TWITTER THREAD HERE. “We have come to believe that men and women who do not work harder than they wish at jobs they do not particularly enjoy are and people...
