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:
The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin
The Ant King and Other Stories
Benjamin Rosenbaum
Made me think about:
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2nd ed.)
Charles C. Mann
Made me think about:
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
Giorgio Agamben
Made me think about:
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:
The_Future_is_Now / Neon_Rising (v2.3)
Josan Gonzalez
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
Black in Place
Brandi Thompson Summers
Made me think about:
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
Legacy Russell
Made me think about:
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
Blockchain Chicken Farm
Xiaowei Wang
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019
Carmen Maria Machado (ed.)