This was in the citations in Native Nations — with all the doomerism out there and so many people from all different walks of life around me asking, seemingly sincerely, whether we are in the process of American collapse… seems like an important read.
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Sean wants to read Late Fascism by Alberto Toscano
Late Fascism by Alberto Toscano
In a world shaken by ecological, economic and political crises, the forces of authoritarianism and reaction seem to have the …
Sean wants to read Beyond Collapse by Ronald K. Faulseit
Beyond Collapse by Ronald K. Faulseit, Thomas Emerson, Kristin Hedman, and 1 other
Sean wants to read Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (Earthseed, #1)
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful …
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Sean wants to read The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier
Some members of the book club didn’t love LeGuin’s The Dispossessed… which as a white-anarchist-in-recovery was hard for me to empathize with. Then we talked it out (as in, the whole purpose of the book club!) and it turns out the Eurocentrism and technocratic aspects of it were the sticking points. THAT I can empathize with! (Though I still loved the book overall…)
I’m thinking I might propose this and/or Butler’s Parable of the Sower as afrofuturist/magical-realist alternative texts that explore creation of new and more-just world by characters rooted in communities. Unless I’ve got these two books wrong?? Please say so if you see me making some kinda error so I don’t misdirect my book club friends!
Sean wants to read Participation and Democratic Theory by Carole Pateman
Sean started reading The moral intelligence of children by Robert Coles
So I’m starting my class on peace, conflict, non-violence, and war next week. I went back to I’d Rather Teach Peace (https://bookwyrm.social/book/1352415/review#reviews ) to see what I could draw, and this book was listed in the “Further Reading” section.
I’m not gonna read the whole thing, and the parts I am reading almost demand a side-by-side reading of Fanon to keep from getting sucked into the ironically a-moral outlook on political economy and imperialism… but there are undoubtedly some useful bits in here.
Sean wants to read Kurdish Women's Movement by Dilar Dirik
Sean wants to read The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin
Sean commented on Freedom Dreams by Robin D.G. Kelley
I’ve skimmed and jumped around in this but I need to commit some time to it. I woke up thinking about it and listened to the beginning of this talk while doing dishes and it is feeling more urgent: www.youtube.com/live/RXBHAx_DLIg?si=AmpHddKHlNNYM4OG
Sean wants to read Power of Gentleness by Anne Dufourmantelle
Power of Gentleness by Anne Dufourmantelle, Katherine Payne, Vincent Sallé, and 1 other
Sean wants to read We Keep Us Safe by Van Jones
We Keep Us Safe by Van Jones, Zach Norris
A groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishment
As …
Sean wants to read Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel
No one in the twentieth century had a greater impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar is …
Sean quoted Native Nations by Kathleen DuVal
Future historians may call the early-twenty-first-century United States a golden age, pointing to extraordinary wealth, cures and illness preventions never before possible, overdue reckonings with past injustice, unprecedented diversity of foods for billions of people, and amazing technologies (85 percent of Americans owned a handheld supercomputer!). Or they may describe our era the way a book on the Huhugam entitled “Centuries of Decline” categorizes the late decades of that civilization: a time of "overpopulation, environmental degradation, resource shortages, poor health, social fragmentation, diffuse and ineffective leadership and a struggle to cope." I hope future historians will understand that both versions have their truth.
— Native Nations by Kathleen DuVal (Page 70)
Holy shit. This seems important right now.
Chapter 2 in general is really significant… people making the conscious decision to de-centralize, de-urbanize, and create culture, politics, and economics of freedom…