Reading for fun, threads over the years of scifi, history, social movements and justice, farming, philosophy. I actively work to balance out the white male default in what I read, but have a long way to go.
He/they for the praxis.
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30% complete! loppear has read 27 of 90 books.
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the …
Oddly hilarious, actual electric sheep, and an overindulgence of layers of binaries between real and simulacra, valued and disposable, purpose and performance, without an attempt to choose sides in a dark doomed world.
This debut novel by an Arab-American voice,takes us inside the lives of conservative Arab women living in America.
In Brooklyn, …
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties ; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people …
@Doomedrider how perfect, a copy of this has been waiting on my shelf and it comes highly recommended, coming up!
Come along with David Hinton on a series of walks through the wild beauty of Hunger Mountain, near his home …
If you think, mistakenly, that American racism can be surmounted by integration, by people knowing each other, even by loving each other, the history of the American South must teach otherwise. There is no resolution to unjust relations without a structural and ethical change.
A difficult read: first for a rambling conversational style that demands steady accumulation along threads of memoir, travel, genealogy, and history; second and deeply, for layering complications on The South, our senses of racism and slavery and treason and charm. Responding to current events - BLM, MeToo, Monuments - but not lingering there for long.
This a blow by blow and month by month account of how a well-managed, but …
If you had a castle and 3500 acres intensively farmed dairy pastures and crops, and realized that wasn't sustainable, and so sought conservation funding to let it return to a wild state... this is the book is for you to rethink what wild might mean. Presents a hopeful sense that conservation and ecological repair should not be a static goal or species-specific understanding or undertaking ("this used to be wetlands, these birds are only found in closed-canopy forests") but a dynamic stepping back and observing and waiting to find out what the purpose of letting nature proceed may be.
It is hard to say easily what this directly contributes, a weaving and complication of many thinkers - Latour, Haraway, Tronto, Stengers - on care's challenges, on critique and trust-building - dissent from within - for avoiding objectification and maintenance of obligations to more than just our tribe, to more than just human relationships. Roves slowly from STS to permaculture and soil ecological timescales, full of considered light shoves and repositionings of our language and thinking.
The Steerswoman is the first novel in the Steerswoman series. Steerswomen, and a very few …
Content warning for some reason the slow steady conceptual reveal here wants to be hidden, but no plot spoilers
What a curious and lovely blend of stock fantasy and overturned expectations - a trudging journey of mysterious import through rival wizards realms, a steady unwrapping of a tension in the world between academic pursuit and dispersal of knowledge versus technological hoarding of power and secrets.
Not sure I finished this when e2, and that was a few lifetimes back.
@seanderson13 sounds like a great discussion setup. One of my favorite aspects of LeGuin but particularly Dispossessed is the sense of unresolved complexity and confronting/accepting change and future uncertainty in her offered better direction, yep.
A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize–winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on …
