Monday, September 25, 2023

The far right and its enablers are lying to you

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It's pretty clear that a lot of people don't understand the way that more extreme elements on the right try to build support for th...
Saturday, September 03, 2022

Social Media is Making Me a Worse Reader

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I have realized in the last few days that social media – especially but not only Twitter – has made me a worse reader. I mean this in a spec...
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Wednesday, July 06, 2022

Review: The Twittering Machine

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 [Richard Seymour. The Twittering Machine . London: The Indigo Press, 2019.] There is practically an entire industry devoted to churning out...
Friday, December 31, 2021

Review: Four Thousand Weeks

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 [Oliver Burkeman. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals . Toronto: Allen Lane, 2021.] An anti-productivity book, of sorts. In mo...
Friday, October 29, 2021

Review: The Dawning of the Apocalypse

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 [Gerald Horne. The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixtee...
Monday, September 06, 2021

Review: The Ministry for the Future

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 [Kim Stanley Robinson. The Ministry for the Future: A Novel . New York: Hachette Book Group, 2020.] Science fiction. Starts fifteen minutes...
Monday, August 30, 2021

Review: Personal Politics

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[Sara Evans. Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left. New York: Vintage Books, ...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

State violence against homeless encampments and the refusal to know

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  Many years ago, I was walking in downtown Hamilton with a friend. As often happens in downtown Hamilton, a woman we walked by ...
Saturday, January 09, 2021

Review: The All New Don't Think of an Elephant!

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 [George Lakoff. The All New Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate . White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea ...
Sunday, December 27, 2020

Review: Reading Across Borders

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 [Shari Stone-Mediatore. Reading Across Borders: Storytelling and Knowedges of Resistance . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.]   A lot o...
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