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."
Then and Now: Safe House Short Stories
Simone Haysom,
Beatrice Lamwaka,
Neema Komba,
Chike Frankie Edozien
The Border of Paradise
Esmé Weijun Wang
Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law, Second Edition
Staughton Lynd,
Daniel Gross
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Esmé Weijun Wang
The Stone Sky
N.K. Jemisin
Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation
Brian Massumi
The Obelisk Gate
N.K. Jemisin
An Ugly Truth
Sheera Frenkel,
Cecilia Kang
Necropolitics
Achille Mbembe
Made me think about:
- Intersectionality
The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin
The Ant King and Other Stories
Benjamin Rosenbaum
Made me think about:
- Unlikely Stories, Mostly
Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism
Seyward Darby
Made me think about:
- White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2nd ed.)
Charles C. Mann
Made me think about:
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
Giorgio Agamben
Made me think about:
- Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
Veronica
Mary Gaitskill
The Precariat: The Dangerous New Class
Guy Standing
The Belly of Paris
Émile Zola
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
Made me think about:
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
- Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
The_Future_is_Now / Neon_Rising (v2.3)
Josan Gonzalez
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Cruel Optimism
Lauren Berlant
The Kill: La Curée
Émile Zola
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times
Jasbir K. Puar
Under the Rainbow
Celia Laskey
Autonomous
Annalee Newitz
The Fortune of the Rougons
Émile Zola
Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About American Law, 5th Edition
Jay M. Feinman
Black in Place
Brandi Thompson Summers
Made me think about:
- Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
Legacy Russell
Made me think about:
- How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
Blockchain Chicken Farm
Xiaowei Wang
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019
Carmen Maria Machado (ed.)