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finished reading Savage Ecology by Jairus Victor Grove

Jairus Victor Grove: Savage Ecology (Paperback, Duke University Press)

Jairus Victor Grove contends that we live in a world made by war. In Savage …

This incredible book took me three goddamn years to finish but holy hell it was worth it. The scope is mind boggling (appropriate for our times) and as the blub by Bonnie Honig says on the back cover, "[the book] gives us a weirdly hopeful eco-pessimism" whose politics I will be grappling with for years to come. If you can stomach theory, I highly, highly recommend this book.

finished reading Overdue by Amanda Oliver

Amanda Oliver: Overdue (2022, Chicago Review Press, Incorporated)

Blew this so quick. It's fantastic though I would have liked it to spend more time on the conclusion as well as have a more global scope.

finished reading Anarchism and other essays by Delete this entry

Delete this entry: Anarchism and other essays (1969)

Anarchism and Other Essays is a 1910 essay collection by Emma Goldman, first published by …

A lot of these essays are filled to the brim with frustrating modernist platitudes, loaded with teleology, however, some of them are spectacularly ahead of their time and well put together. The essays on "The Modern Drama," " The Psychology of Political Violence," "The Tragedy of Women's Emancipation," and "Women Suffrage" are worth the whole book though.