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Mike Jay
Personal blog · mikejay.nethistoryculture
Mike Jay's personal blog at mikejay.net covers history and culture. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Mike Jay's site for his writing on madness and history, including his book The Air Loom Gang about James Tilly Matthews, the first recorded person to believe machines influenced his thoughts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Mike Jay is an author and cultural historian whose subjects include science, medicine, drugs, madness, literature and radical politics
What Hacker News says?
Mike Jay (the reviewer here) is such an interesting writer. The Air Loom Gang ( http://mikejay.net/books/the-air-loom-gang/ ) is an amazing book: it tells the story of James Tilly Matthews, the first person recorded to have believed that his thoughts were being influenced by a machine.
Comment linking /books/the-air-loom-gang/
on “The Wrong Head: Madness and the French Revolution”Submitted The Acid Farmers as a story · 114 points
HN discussionSubmitted The history of Geel, and the future of mental healthcare as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bicycle Day Revisited (2018) as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Lotus Eaters (2013) as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Pope of Opium (2010) as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Over the Edge (2013) as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Journey Between Worlds (2019) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom as a story · 1 points
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