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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."
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Then and Now: Safe House Short Stories
Simone Haysom, Beatrice Lamwaka, Neema Komba, Chike Frankie Edozien

Dundrum Press
isbn 9781459738058
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finished 25 Dec 2021

The Border of Paradise
Esmé Weijun Wang

Unnamed Press
isbn 9781939419699
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finished 20 Dec 2021

Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law, Second Edition
Staughton Lynd, Daniel Gross

PM Press
isbn 9781604864199
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finished 19 Dec 2021

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Esmé Weijun Wang

Graywolf Press
isbn 9781555978273
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finished 28 Nov 2021

The Stone Sky
N.K. Jemisin

Orbit
isbn 9780316229241
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finished 20 Nov 2021

Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation
Brian Massumi

Duke
isbn 9780822328971
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finished 15 Nov 2021

The Obelisk Gate
N.K. Jemisin

Orbit
isbn 9780316229265
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finished 25 Oct 2021

An Ugly Truth
Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang

Harper
isbn 9780062960672
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finished 19 Oct 2021

Necropolitics
Achille Mbembe

Duke University Press
isbn 9781478006510
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finished 12 Oct 2021

Made me think about:

  • Intersectionality

The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin

Orbit
isbn 9780316229296
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finished 26 Sep 2021

The Ant King and Other Stories
Benjamin Rosenbaum

Small Beer Press
isbn 9781931520539
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finished 10 Sep 2021

Made me think about:

  • Unlikely Stories, Mostly

Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism
Seyward Darby

Little Brown and Company
isbn 9780316487771
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finished 28 Aug 2021

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

Vintage
isbn 9781400032051
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finished 07 Aug 2021

Made me think about:

  • Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture

Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
Giorgio Agamben

Stanford University Press
isbn 9780804732185
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finished 23 Jul 2021

Made me think about:

  • Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

Veronica
Mary Gaitskill

Vintage
isbn 9780375727856
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finished 03 Jul 2021

The Precariat: The Dangerous New Class
Guy Standing

Bloomsbury Academic
isbn 9781474294164
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finished 03 Jul 2021

The Belly of Paris
Émile Zola

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780199555840
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finished 19 Jun 2021

Made me think about:

  • The Parasol Against the Axe

The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt

Blackstone Audiobooks
isbn 9781433206634
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finished 18 Jun 2021

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

Citadel 9
isbn 9788494608438
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finished 13 Jun 2021

Cruel Optimism
Lauren Berlant

Duke University Press
isbn 9780822351115
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finished 12 Jun 2021

The Kill: La Curée
Émile Zola

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780199536924
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finished 22 May 2021

Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times
Jasbir K. Puar

Duke University Press
isbn 9780822341147
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finished 15 May 2021

Under the Rainbow
Celia Laskey

Riverhead Books
isbn 9780525536161
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finished 18 Apr 2021

Autonomous
Annalee Newitz

Tor Books
isbn 9780765392084
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finished 17 Apr 2021

The Fortune of the Rougons
Émile Zola

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780199560998
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finished 10 Apr 2021

Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About American Law, 5th Edition
Jay M. Feinman

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780190866327
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finished 02 Apr 2021

Black in Place
Brandi Thompson Summers

The University of North Carolina Press
isbn 9781469654010
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finished 14 Mar 2021

Made me think about:

  • Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City

The Overstory
Richard Powers

W.W. Norton & Company
isbn 9780393356687
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finished 09 Feb 2021

Made me think about:

  • The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
  • The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors

Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
Legacy Russell

Verso
isbn 9781786632661
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finished 03 Feb 2021

Made me think about:

  • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett

Riverhead Books
isbn 9780525536291
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finished 30 Jan 2021

Blockchain Chicken Farm
Xiaowei Wang

FSG Originals
isbn 9780374538668
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finished 24 Jan 2021

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019
Carmen Maria Machado (ed.)

Mariner Books
isbn 9781328604378
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finished 16 Jan 2021

2021 total: 32
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