I bought some books.

Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler, various authors.

The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention, by David Noble.

America by Design: Science, Technology and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism, by David Noble.

Looking at the Overlooked: 4 Essays on Still Life Painting, by Norman Bryson.

I've also been reading these (among others, in no particular order):

Moby Dick, by Herman Melville.

Mediated Politics : Communication in the Future of Democracy, various authors.

The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory, by Marilyn Frye.

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman.

Media Ethics & Accountability Systems, by Claude-Jean Bertrand.

The Art of Art Works, by Cyril Welch.

Democracy in the Digital Age: Challenges to Political Life in Cyberspace, by Anthony G. Wilhelm.

That's enough for now..