Brookeshelves
Collin Brookenotes towards a larger project on rhetoric, technology, and democracy.
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The "Golden" Era
I only have the vaguest memories of America’s 200th birthday, back when everyone learned the word “bicentennial.”
Most of what I remember is personal—every year, our family hosted a July 4th party for neighbors and relatives and family fr...
Your attention is their asset
This episode is part of a larger Summer 2026 project where I read (and review) a number of books and articles in preparation for a Fall graduate course on the subject of the attention economy. You can access my notes via the “Attention” lin...
Indefinition
This episode is part of a larger Summer 2026 project where I read (and review) a number of books and articles in preparation for a Fall graduate course on the subject of the attention economy. You can access my notes via the “Attention” lin...
Sycophantasy
About a month ago, I wrote about how much I was looking forward to Backrooms, although you might have missed my enthusiasm, considering how much time I spent situating it in a long (personal) context of weird spaces, to say nothing of its r...
The virtue of little verbs
At any given moment, I probably have 6-7 books going. I start more of them than I finish, and the degree to which any one of them cycles into the status of “main” will depend mostly on mood. Sometimes I need things to write about here, some...
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