Reading
Books: on balance, I'm for them. These are most of the ones I've read since 2007 or so. The star ratings correspond more closely to "how worth my time this felt" than "how good this is."Cameron, Sarah, (ed.)
Camus, Albert
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
w/
Justin O'Brien (trans.)
Made me think about:
- The Meditations: A New Translation (Revised)
Capser, Monica J., (ed.)
Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict, and Memory in Everyday Life
w/
Eric Wertheimer (ed.)
I’ve been thinking a lot about individual and collective trauma recently. Given the extremity of our experiences - the pandemic, historic and ongoing U.S. racism... more >>
Made me think about:
- Intersectionality
Capussela, Andrea Lorenzo
State-Building in Kosovo: Democracy, Corruption and the EU in the Balkans
A fascinating and genteelly polemical insider's account of the EU and UN missions to build a modern democracy in Kosovo. I found this really useful as a window into the worlds of diplomacy and international affairs at their most stilted. I'm sure I missed a lot of nuance and maybe some pot shots but.. neat.
Card, Orson Scott
Carrier, David
Carver, Raymond
Cavendish, George
Chadwick, Paul
Cixin, Liu
Clare, Cassandra
Collins, Patricia Hill
Intersectionality
w/ Sirma Bilge
A good overview that also presents some of the areas of emergence and contestation in the field. I was a bit disappointed by the lack of specificity about the *how* of intersectional praxis.
Made me think about:
- When Species Meet
- Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict, and Memory in Everyday Life
- The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political
- Necropolitics
Conrad, Joseph
Cooley, Mike
Costanza-Chock, Sasha
Cressy, David
Crichton, Michael
Crosley, Sloane
Grief is for People
Made me think about:
- The Crow
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America
Crumb, Robert
The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol. 11: Mr. Natural Committed to a Mental Institution!
The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol. 8: Featuring the Death of Fritz the Cat
Now (in contrast to Vol. 1) this is Crumb! I have an iron stomach, and even I was offended. Genre-defining art meets genre-defining egocentrism. Que brillante!
The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol. 1: The Early Years of Bitter Struggle
w/ Gary Groth, Robert Fiore, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Marty Pahls, Marc Arsenault, Audu Paden, Coco Shinomiya, Dale Crain
So. It turns out that when the subtitle says "The Early Years of Bitter Struggle," it isn't kidding. This is a collection of neonatal comics from when Crumb was in high school. I'm not too proud to admit that I finished the whole thing, but I'm sure my interest was predicated on disturbing heights of idolatry, rather than the actual contents of the book.
