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So, what have you been reading recently? | ๐ Weekly book discussion, review, and recommendations thread, June 28th, 2026
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Fiction or Non-Fiction, academic or casual, theory or non-theory, feel free to mention books of any genre and on any topic.
I've finished reading Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage by Paulo Freire and started Neuromancer by William Gibson.
What were your thoughts of Paulo Freire? His books are on my wish list.
An extraordinary educator and teacher. In the book I read, he discusses how to raise young people who are open to criticism and to offering criticism, as well as the propagandistic education prevalent in the West and how to overcome it. He is not a Marxist-Leninist, but rather closer to democratic socialism; however, his writings on epistemic curiosity, teaching and learning, and solidarity are refreshing and contain insights from which socialists too, have much to learn.
The fact that evangelical lobbies in the West have also banned his writings and are trying to ban it further proves that the education of the people in Latin America is being stifled.
I read a lot of science fiction and I haven't read anything quite like Neuromancer. Feels like reading an action movie in a fully realized cyberpunk world. And, without spoiling anything, a lot of the themes have aged well.