BenLockwood rated Practicing Social Ecology: 4 stars
Practicing Social Ecology by Eleanor Finley
How can we harness society's potential to change the trajectory of the climate crisis? So many of us feel helpless …
Petty good
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BenLockwood rated Recovering Bookchin: 4 stars
BenLockwood finished reading Recovering Bookchin by Andy Price
BenLockwood finished reading The Ecology Of Freedom by Murray Bookchin
"Using a synthesis of ecology, anthropology, philosophy and political theory, this book traces our society's …
A behemoth of a book
BenLockwood reviewed Haunted Ecologies by Corey Farrenkopf
Some pulpy New England horror
3 stars
Some fun bits in here
BenLockwood rated Chlorophilia: 4 stars
More of an experience than a novel
4 stars
It's a trip, if you're willing to take it.
BenLockwood finished reading Reconsidering Reparations by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Pretty good
BenLockwood finished reading Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis …
Important book to read if you're anywhere on the political left
BenLockwood reviewed Indy writes books by Dan Wakefield
Nice collection by Hoosier writers
3 stars
This is a nice collection of stories, poems, and essays by writers from Indiana. A bonus that a lot of the pieces are about books and reading.
BenLockwood stopped reading Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer
Ten years after the publication of Annihilation, the surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s blockbuster …
Give up 2/3 of the way through. It got utterly unreadable
BenLockwood reviewed The Unfinished Game by Keith J. Devlin
Somewhat interesting
3 stars
A somewhat interesting basic history of probability theory
BenLockwood reviewed Anarcho-Syndicalism by Rudolf Rocker
A bit dry
3 stars
Mostly historical, with good info but kind of a slog to get through
BenLockwood reviewed Abolition Geography by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
New collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geography …
Good and important
4 stars
It's a dense read at times, but draws clear lines connecting capitalism to the prison industrial complex across space and time. An important read for geographers
BenLockwood reviewed Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
Worth reading
3 stars
I've got some issues with what VanderMeer is doing here, but one thing he succeeds at is expanding/deepening the mystery whenever revealing some aspect of it.