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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To save the future, she must return to the beginning.
Three years after her best …
Not Doctor Who & Not David Bowie get mixed up in a time travel romp in ways that don't matter much with a handful of fascinating setups and characters who never add up to as much as that promises.
From her conversation with Krista Tippett for On Being.
Takes three pervasive infrastructures and in a simple graphic treatment breaks them down in systematic detail, in historical and social context, and prompts questioning inequities and future reconsiderations of these built systems and their relationships to our global ecological society.
This volume documents an ongoing investigation by artist Julia Christensen (born 1976) into how our …
A decade of artistic inquiry and conversations on technical obsolescence, digital waste and detritus and archival choices of preservation and maintenance, with an undertone of absurd comedy.
"Life and death are a package deal. They cannot be pulled apart and we cannot …
Peaceful and challenging, intimate remembrances of accompanying death in hospice. Buddhist-inflected facing and embracing dying as a way of living, this has that common medium-distance-immediacy of broad and somewhat indistinct advice while sharing extremely sharp and practical experience.
I've wanted probably this book to exist for years now, a YA graphic treatment of infrastructure.
A pop update to the author's more academic Surfing Uncertainty on the predictive processing view of consciousness, with most of those details in a brief appendix and the focus on cognitive study examples, cognitive biases and confusions that seem clearer when viewed through this lens, and ways to think of our predictive brains as embodied and extended in the world.
Short stories from animals perspective in their relation to humans amid catastrophe. Opens and ends strongly, sombre and reflective but lacking a punch for me.
A not-quite introduction to Zen, the wonder and presence of what is already familiar and immediate, studied closely from a position of openness without the goal of attaining anything. Compiled from short talks and given structure starting from practice and form, to attitudes and feeling, to understanding and mindset, around again to "true understanding is practice itself".
Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark A Vagrant fame, …
How can men be so crass, so misogynistic, so violent, when transplanted to the extreme environs of capitalist extraction far from anyplace recognizable as home? Documentary reflection after anguished disillusion and mistreatment, drolly told.
Connection to the garden, to earth, to rock, a broad set of essays entangling poetry, place, transplanted species, indigenous women's voices, community agriculture, global dialog. Only a few of the author's own poem fragments moved me, but his selection of literature and context and experience works to shape a dependent view of the world.
Poverty abolitionism. Blends description of the exploitative two-tier society we all participate in, earnest responses to socioeconomic myths about destitution and welfare, and policy possibilities for undoing the ways society and government actively perpetuates both wealth and poverty.
A remarkably inventive novel that explores what it means to live a life fully in …
Light and easy, digs at questions of family and relationship and acceptance of our pasts. The narrowly defined and mysterious time travel is central and structuring, but also somehow gets out of the way for interesting main characters to develop.
In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden, poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy …
Lyrically wends from suburban pollinator garden to covid-19 to #BLM to the erasure and solitariness of nature writing contrasted to community's ebb and flow in ecology, community's creation and destruction in society.
Debut author Angeline Boulley crafts a groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who must …
Fast-paced and high-stakes near-YA with a long list of honestly addressed CW themes (sexual violence, gun violence, drug use, indigenous justice and casino wealth and federal bureau myopia, family estrangement, i could go on). The protagonist is drawn so smartly and self-aware on the boundaries of tribe, adulthood, hockey, love, family.