I wish I read more fiction
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I’m already nervous that this book is so entrenched in the “brain-as-computer” competitive/individualist paradigm of cognition that it will never even touch issues like situated learning (which I consider to be the most important issue in any discussion of learning, teaching, education, and schooling). Let’s see!
Maybe a foil to Bevins? Claim made in the conclusion of Slow Down that 3.5% of a population engaged in organizing can “bring about major change” is attributed to this book.
Christine reminds me periodically how dangerous it is for me as a european-american white person to put indigenous north american peoples and histories constantly on a pedestal, and how easy it is to slip into some newfangled version of the “noble savage” bullshit. I also keep trying to resist the pull of becoming some kind of myopic Dawn of Everything fanboy. AND YET ever since reading that book, I find myself coming to any/every political analysis wondering: why doesn’t this writer start with a treatment of the n.am indigenous critique? Why on earth would anyone start a massive critique of the mess that europe hath wrought by looking exclusively to european-worldview ideas for solutions?
So basically I’m wondering, after reading just the introduction, whether I’m gonna be able to get much out of this. But I’m gonna try!
"From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first …
I don't have any regrets about the nineties. It was an exciting, tumultuous time. Even though I'd never been interested in politics or even read the papers, I ended up running for deputy. Who were the foremen of perestroika? Writers, artists... poets... You could have collected autographs at the First Congress of the People's Deputies of the USSR. My husband is an economist, and it would drive him up the wall: “Poets are capable of setting people's hearts on fire with words. You're going to end up with a revolution on your hands—and then what? How are you going to build democracy? Who's going to do it? I can already see what your efforts are leading to." He laughed at me. We ended up getting divorced because of it... But as it turned out, he was right ...
— Secondhand Time by Svetlana Aleksievich, Bela Shayevich (Page 37)
Tracking the natural beauty that surrounds us, The Backyard Bird Chronicles maps the passage of …
Rebecca's favorite book ever
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an actual poll tax receipt before the ones in this book. Flores Magón makes a cameo in the intro as well. Lots of unexpected delights in here so far!
@EmilyG have you read McKenzie Wark’s Capital Is Dead? I’d be curious how that and this inform each other.
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…the prefigurative approach tends to constrain the range of outcomes. Self-consciously horizontalist movements have a hard time drawing the line between who is in and who is out, and they struggle to pivot quickly when circumstances change (as the MPL learned in 2013), or to expand rapidly when their popularity increases. More broadly, prefiguration often means that you insist on being (internally) better than the structures you are confronting, and it always means devoting some attention to means, rather than a bloody-minded focus on ends.
— If We Burn by Vincent Bevins (Page 267 - 268)
Damn this stings. But I think I’m ready to argue against it.
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world — and what comes next
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I read the chapter about schools first, which may have been a mistake…
