April 23:
Reading is to learn about the world that you have never known, to see the reality you have never seen, and to savor the joy and happiness that this process brings.
- "Beginning at the Limit" [Day] Chizuruko Ueno / [Day] Ryomi Suzuki
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Daily Legal Book Recommendations
A Brief History of Torture
One sentence recommendation: the history of torture lasts as long as the history of mankind lasts. From ancient times to modern times, from the West to the East, the author uses a calm and objective historical language to tell the suffering of torturers for thousands of years, presenting a complete 3,000-year brief history of torture. When human beings use our imagination and creativity to inflict violence on their own kind, every tool of execution, every form of punishment, reminds us over and over again that tyranny and cruelty have always been parasitic in the depths of human nature. Civilization needs to be defended by each and every one of us. This book is detailed ↓
Because human conscience is our ultimate strength against the absurdity of the world.
#标签: The Noise of the Social Media Age
One sentence recommendation: From the worries of the "information cocoon" and the "echo chamber" to the description of the "Republic of Labels", Sunstein is concerned about the crisis of Western democracies in the age of social media, that is, the world of labels as the basis for algorithms will bring about the fragmentation of democracy. It is for this reason that this is a book full of paradoxes and uncertain hopes, a book of reflections of a professor at Harvard Law School in the United States, who served as director of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. What Chinese readers can get is a rethinking of democracy from a comparative perspective. This book is detailed ↓
What are we scrolling when we're scrolling our phones?