Thoroughly enjoyed this quick read. I used to watch a lot of Ask a Mortician and had been meaning to read this for so long. Doughty is sweet and entertaining and eternally thoughtful.
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imagineutopia rated Sick Bag Song: 2 stars
imagineutopia rated Head Off Split Poems: 4 stars
imagineutopia rated A Place Called No Homeland: 4 stars
Kai Cheng Thom: A Place Called No Homeland (Paperback, 2017, Arsenal Pulp Press)
A Place Called No Homeland by Kai Cheng Thom
This extraordinary poetry collection journeys to the place where forgotten ancestors live and monstrous women roam—and where the distinctions between …
imagineutopia rated This connection of everyone with lungs: 3 stars
imagineutopia rated The Transformation: 5 stars
imagineutopia rated Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained: 5 stars
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
The blogger behind the popular Web series Ask a Mortician describes her experiences working at a crematory, including how she …
The blogger behind the popular Web series Ask a Mortician describes her experiences working at …
"Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has …
Vital Analysis; Uninspiring Dreaming
3 stars
I've been making my way through this (audio)book for a year or so. I realised some 15 hours in that it didn't make sense because the files weren't organised correctly (my bad). Because I listened to bits and pieces out of order, I had to work extra hard to get the concepts, which I'm glad for now even though it sucked. Zuboff's analysis here is fantastic. Her breakdown of the machinations of "surveillance capitalism" is one of the most significant contributions to understanding how this particular "species" of capitalism works that I think we are likely to get this half of the twenty-first century. And "we" sure need it.
The book falls short on political solutions however, and the way it's written was frustrating to say the least. Zuboff's faith in markets, even market capitalism, knocks more creative solutions out of her grasp reacting to attacks on liberal democracy, rather …
I've been making my way through this (audio)book for a year or so. I realised some 15 hours in that it didn't make sense because the files weren't organised correctly (my bad). Because I listened to bits and pieces out of order, I had to work extra hard to get the concepts, which I'm glad for now even though it sucked. Zuboff's analysis here is fantastic. Her breakdown of the machinations of "surveillance capitalism" is one of the most significant contributions to understanding how this particular "species" of capitalism works that I think we are likely to get this half of the twenty-first century. And "we" sure need it.
The book falls short on political solutions however, and the way it's written was frustrating to say the least. Zuboff's faith in markets, even market capitalism, knocks more creative solutions out of her grasp reacting to attacks on liberal democracy, rather than straining for more democratic ways of governance and being in the world.
This book makes a fantastic comparison read alongside Jairus Victor Grove's thrilling/disturbing/enlightening/strange optimism generating Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World (wyrms.de/book/79246/s/savage-ecology). Stay tuned for my review of that whenever I finish it.
imagineutopia rated Lake Michigan: 5 stars
Daniel Borzutzky: Lake Michigan (2018)
Lake Michigan by Daniel Borzutzky (Pitt poetry series)
Lake Michigan, a series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the beaches of Chicago that is …
imagineutopia finished reading Lake Michigan by Daniel Borzutzky (Pitt poetry series)
Lake Michigan, a series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the …
I'd been wanting to read Borzutzky for a long time and finally dove into Lake Michigan. This book is stunning. Highly recommend.
imagineutopia rated Walkaway: 5 stars
Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
Walkaway is a 2017 science fiction novel by Cory Doctorow, published by Head of Zeus and Tor Books. Set in …
imagineutopia rated Patterson: 3 stars
imagineutopia finished reading Patterson
If reading the book before seeing the movie was mandatory, hardly anyone would have seen Jim Jarmusch's lovely film by the same name. Patterson is clearly an important work of 20th century American poetry and is a fascinating text with a lot of beauty in it. Would recommend only if you're interested in this particular time and place, history of poetry, are using it as inspiration for your own freaky writing projects (@Jarmusch), or want to read the book that inspired that movie with Adam Driver in it.