2John5918
I tried to understand this but I found it very fragmented and disjointed and to be honest I couldn't really follow it. I don't think Instagram is my sort of media.
3librorumamans
And this, my friends, is how much public discussion is being conducted.
4kiparsky
I'm not sure why I'm supposed to have the time to sit around and watch people talking. Write it down, people. You can read about five times as fast as you can talk.
That being said, yes, reading is political particularly in times when ignorance is being leveraged for political gain.
So what's everybody reading? Are you digging in to the times, or are you doing more escapism, or is it a mix?
That being said, yes, reading is political particularly in times when ignorance is being leveraged for political gain.
So what's everybody reading? Are you digging in to the times, or are you doing more escapism, or is it a mix?
5Matke
Escapism. Except the very occasional “long read” in The Guardian or The Atlantic. I’m completely avoiding any news except headlines.
AlthoughI am just finishing up Americanah, which, in its descriptions of racism and race itself, is kind of timely.
AlthoughI am just finishing up Americanah, which, in its descriptions of racism and race itself, is kind of timely.
72wonderY
>4 kiparsky: I’m trying to get signed up for a political science class at the nearby college.
I’ve got two of the textbooks in hand already.
The Purpose of Power and Resistance in the Bluegrass
This term I’ve been taking a History class that has handily taught me to pay attention to the chosen narratives.
I’ve got two of the textbooks in hand already.
The Purpose of Power and Resistance in the Bluegrass
This term I’ve been taking a History class that has handily taught me to pay attention to the chosen narratives.
8kiparsky
>5 Matke: Understandable. I'm finding the New Yorker is a good mix for days when I feel like a break. Private Eye is also good - lots of serious political reporting, but mostly about UK politics. Also, cartoons.
Fiction-wise, I've been going back through some of the classic writers that I figure are worth having read in at least moderate depth. Edith Wharton, O. Henry, Carl Sandburg are a few of those. Also, there's always a few of the NYRB Press reprints on my stack.
I suppose being in a masters program also counts as escapism in a way. When I'm boning up on database theory I'm not seething about the news.
>7 2wonderY: That sounds like a good and proactive move! I'm intrigued by both of those texts, adding them to my library list.
My friend Del recently published a book called What We Build With Power, which seems like it might go on the same shelf. Del is a pretty interesting cat, he founded an organization in Boston called Resilient Coders to get folks from underestimated communities (as he puts it) into jobs in tech. Also, I suspect that some of Arlie Russell Hochschild's work might be relevant as well.
Currently in various degrees of progress for me:
Rising Up And Rising Down - William Vollman's long and somewhat disjointed but usually intriguing discourse on violence and its justifications.
Wampeters, Foma and Granfaloons - Because it's always worth returning to Vonnegut.
Priced Out - Found in an LFL, not much new here but a useful overview of the economics of the US healthcare prevention system.
The Oceans and the Stars - Ever since I read Winter's Tale, I've had a soft spot for Helprin's writing. Unfortunately, while his writing continues to be as luminous as ever (Helprin writes in oils, thickly applied) this one has little else to recommend it and will go straight back to the LFL from which it came.
Fiction-wise, I've been going back through some of the classic writers that I figure are worth having read in at least moderate depth. Edith Wharton, O. Henry, Carl Sandburg are a few of those. Also, there's always a few of the NYRB Press reprints on my stack.
I suppose being in a masters program also counts as escapism in a way. When I'm boning up on database theory I'm not seething about the news.
>7 2wonderY: That sounds like a good and proactive move! I'm intrigued by both of those texts, adding them to my library list.
My friend Del recently published a book called What We Build With Power, which seems like it might go on the same shelf. Del is a pretty interesting cat, he founded an organization in Boston called Resilient Coders to get folks from underestimated communities (as he puts it) into jobs in tech. Also, I suspect that some of Arlie Russell Hochschild's work might be relevant as well.
Currently in various degrees of progress for me:
Rising Up And Rising Down - William Vollman's long and somewhat disjointed but usually intriguing discourse on violence and its justifications.
Wampeters, Foma and Granfaloons - Because it's always worth returning to Vonnegut.
Priced Out - Found in an LFL, not much new here but a useful overview of the economics of the US healthcare prevention system.
The Oceans and the Stars - Ever since I read Winter's Tale, I've had a soft spot for Helprin's writing. Unfortunately, while his writing continues to be as luminous as ever (Helprin writes in oils, thickly applied) this one has little else to recommend it and will go straight back to the LFL from which it came.
9alco261
I think the single word for that link is gibberish. Say a bunch of words, have some highlighted on the screen, wave your hands, dress up is an silly outfit, keep looking this way and that, basically do everything to make sure the message is not clearly delivered - puleeze - I agree with >4 kiparsky: - just write it down.
As for the way things are going and where we are headed in the US. I've already got reading is political covered
The Nightmare Decade
The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
Like Judgement Day
History of Bigotry in the United States
The World Turned Upside Down
Alt America
American Zealots
and what we will be for undoubtedly the rest of my lifetime
1984
to modify what Grey said, “The lamps have gone out all over the US; I shall not see them lit again in my lifetime.
As for the way things are going and where we are headed in the US. I've already got reading is political covered
The Nightmare Decade
The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
Like Judgement Day
History of Bigotry in the United States
The World Turned Upside Down
Alt America
American Zealots
and what we will be for undoubtedly the rest of my lifetime
1984
to modify what Grey said, “The lamps have gone out all over the US; I shall not see them lit again in my lifetime.
11librorumamans
On my TBR obelisk is George Monbiot's The invisible doctrine : the secret history of neoliberalism.
