I mostly read non-fiction books on academic subjects although I'll read a few other stuff here and there.
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Social Contagion presents the untold story of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Chuang, a collective of communists living inside and …
The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (abbreviated CatB) is an essay, …
This collection brings together key texts and previously unavailable essays of the influential Italian feminist …
The critiques of the basic anti-feminism among leftists and labor movements is pretty solid, however as a Marxist-feminist text there's a lot of depth lacking and questionable arguments. Overall pretty underwhelming, but could be a good intro.
Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914–1950, the Golden Age, 1950–1973, and the …
Onto the chapter discussing the third world
Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent writers have acknowledged its influence on …
The Mind of the Maker (1941) is a Christian theological book, written by Dorothy L. Sayers (who was better known …
In the years following 1968, a number of people involved in the most radical aspects of the French general strike …
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil is a 1963 book by political theorist Hannah Arendt. …
What does the Right offer to women? How does the Right mobilize women? Why is the Right succeeding in opposing …
Not many living artists would be sufficiently brave or inspired to attempt reflecting in art what Borges constructs in words. …
In this edited collection of work spanning more than 20 years, Silvia Federici provides a …
I was rather excited to read this given how it discusses a lot of topics that I have a lot of interest in, especially given how much I liked the Wages Against Housework essay, but was left feeling rather disappointed. Federici makes a lot of broad claims which are left without any real backing or elaboration, especially when it comes to matters of what occurs internationally. I left this book with a vague sense of something going on between "Africa" and the World Bank, but not much past that. If someone were to ask me how the World Bank engages in enclosure, I am not at all confident I can explain that given what I've gotten from this book.
The essays keep retreading a lot of ground, but somehow the arguments still are really spread thin since what's getting repeated is the broad claims. The picture painted of a lot …
I was rather excited to read this given how it discusses a lot of topics that I have a lot of interest in, especially given how much I liked the Wages Against Housework essay, but was left feeling rather disappointed. Federici makes a lot of broad claims which are left without any real backing or elaboration, especially when it comes to matters of what occurs internationally. I left this book with a vague sense of something going on between "Africa" and the World Bank, but not much past that. If someone were to ask me how the World Bank engages in enclosure, I am not at all confident I can explain that given what I've gotten from this book.
The essays keep retreading a lot of ground, but somehow the arguments still are really spread thin since what's getting repeated is the broad claims. The picture painted of a lot of the various societies and movements she cites seems rather one-sided/romanticized, but I don't want to harp on this too strongly since history is far from my strong-suit, so I really cannot testify to the accuracy of her claims one way or another.
But as I got on later into the book, the arguments started to get more specific and coherent, and I quite like that. As it stands though, I really do not feel like I can comfortably cite this without running the risk of basing my arguments on misinformation.
How can the Soviet Union subjugate the West? Easy. Step up production of tedious dissidents and send them to colonize …
In this edited collection of work spanning more than 20 years, Silvia Federici provides a …
12/30
In World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach …
12/30: 87 out of 168
In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout …