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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore 9 Notifications Chat Grok Bookmarks Creator Studio Premium 50% off Profile More Post Will Anderson (In London!) @wlanderson0 Post See new posts Conversation Dean W. Ball @deanwball A few months ago my friend @nabeelqu asked me for a reading list. It turned into a bit of an adventure. Should I just list my "favorite" books? Or the ones that influenced me personally the most? Or the ones I deem most "important" in some broader sense? I deliberated uselessly for months. The result is a fun little project I call "Coutellerie." Michel Foucault once wrote that "knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting." Very few ideas animate my work and thinking more than this one. Coutellerie is a French word that describes the manufacturing, trade, and appreciation of knives. The list of books and essays I ultimately created for Nabeel, and now share with you, is not necessarily a list of my fa

Dean W. Ball @deanwball A few months ago my friend @ nabeelqu asked me for a reading list. It turned into a bit of an adventure. Should I just list my "favorite" books? Or the ones that influenced me personally the most? Or the ones I deem most "important" in some broader sense? I deliberated uselessly for months. The result is a fun little project I call "Coutellerie." Michel Foucault once wrote that "knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting." Very few ideas animate my work and thinking more than this one. Coutellerie is a French word that describes the manufacturing, t

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