Well Read Book Club Winter Season with Hannah Cobb & Y7

For the Winter season of the Well Read Book Club, we’ve invited curator and writer Hannah Cobb to guest host, in collaboration with Y7’s Conclave series.

This season looks at digital mediation, existing online vs. offline, and reflecting on who has a monopoly on the future, through both fiction and non-fiction texts.

The first text is Patricia Lockwood’s 2021 novel No One Is Talking About This, a two-part narrative told from the perspective of a woman who finds fame through a viral tweet, using the semantics and semiotics of social media platforms to shape the story.

The second session will focus on a chapter from Marek Poliks & Roberto Alonso Trillo’s 2025 book Exocapitalism: Economies With Absolutely No Limits, a critical theory text exploring capitalism’s escape from human control. (If you missed the Weird Economies reading group, this is for you!).

Hannah will join us in-store for the third and final session of the series, looking at texts from a number of critical perspectives interrogating technology, innovation, and stagnation disguised as growth. We’ll read Ursula K Le Guin’s A Rant on Technology, Richard Brautigan’s poem All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace and Peter Thiel’s The End of the Future.

The meetings will take place on 20th January, 10th February, and 5th March (for texts 1, 2, and 3, respectively!) @ 19h GMT. Staying true to the season theme, we’ll run these sessions in person on Calçada de Sant’Ana, and online via Zoom. DM us for the link to join the Book Club chat.