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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The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conclusion to New York Times …
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the …
During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the …
Compelled to return to the frontlines of madness, clawing for oblivion in the face of evils and devils, a glint of compassion and sanity from another human sharing the experience. Deftly haunting storytelling.
What a delightful sprawling madcap slice of New York. Dark and funny, an overwhelming cast and set of threads and diversions. Did any of it matter? Does it voice a rosy cozy gritty 60s or grimly stubborn mid-point between southern oppression and modern violence of drugs and poverty? As recommended to me, the audiobook is an absorbing performance.
Resisting Garbage presents a new approach to understanding practices of waste removal and recycling in …
Wasteways and waste regimes, this points to larger intersectional issues of production, consumption, and political-institutional capture - but is primarily a close comparison of waste management policy in Boston & Seattle in the 1980s and 90s, focused on ultimately narrow variations in recycling programs and citizen input, and how those are compliant or resistant to our national narrative of trash.
Atmospheric, crashing ocean surf, tangled beaten bodies at the edge of land and sea. The title collection most coherent to me, the overall sense of storm-tossed black Carribean experience more than any particular line or shape.
A narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association …
Intrigued by the rapidly burgeoning scientific research on plant capacities, a climate journalist turns to current questions of intelligence, consciousness, and sociality. Overlaps with Franz de Waal, Donna Haraway, Future Ecologies, etc in pushing at our human-centered and exploitative perspective on the world to wonder what it would mean to consider our intellectual capacities diffused to all distant kin.
Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of …
Continuing to walk and collect stories, more lovely weaving of perspectives in this one.
Basit Deniau’s houses were haunted to begin with.
A house embedded with an artificial intelligence is a common thing: a …
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, …
Oops, I proposed this again for another bookclub. Time for a re-read!
One young woman’s voice―intense and poetic―grapples with universal ideas as it chronicles a personal journey cut short. How do we …
During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that …
