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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Cedric J. Robinson – Black Marxism
I’m not well-read enough on either African-American studies or Marxism to function as some fabulous expert recommender who can tell you with legitimized assurance that this book is a great starting point for those topics, but as a personal starting … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Marxism, Cedric J. Robinson, Economics, Radicalism, Readings, Sociology
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25 Below Zero
Written around July 2008 of an experience in Annadel State Park. The unwritten addendum is that I was driven to the friend’s home, unable to drive the car myself, which resulted in failure to bring my sister the car for … Continue reading
Watchmen
In what would retroactively be understood as one of the bleakest blankest segments of my life I had fully sacrificed pleasure reading time to the institutional and functional obligations of work and school – for close to if not more … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Moore, Graphic Novels, Readings, Sci-fi, Watchmen
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Neighborhoods
Written in late summer 2012. Not that great – treads familiar territory, lacks imaginative descriptions – but has a somewhat redeeming (if already understood) concept sometimes nice to regain awareness of. Stay out of the nasty neighborhoods, where crime is … Continue reading
Naked Lunch
Call something “brilliant” and, if you visualize the word at all when you read or hear it anymore, the image is of skin-caressing sunlight baths – that’s the etymology – or more likely by this point you connote and call … Continue reading
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Tagged Beats, Naked Lunch, Readings, Sci-fi, William Burroughs
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Kim Stanley Robinson – 2312
Though the chief dramatic action of the plot is furnished by the attempted destructions of colonized Mercury and Venus via spontaneous asteroid formations stealthily agglomerated by rogue quantum AIs acting in interplanetary concert, this book feels frustratingly far from Earth-shattering. … Continue reading
A Sale of Two Toxicities
Originally submitted to a Latin American Studies course in April 2012. Flaws: egregiously conflates MDMA with the “methamphetamine” that makes up the MA half of its abbreviation (the statement containing the conflation in question is true, but requires further documentation); … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Rambles
Tagged Drugs, Economics, Philosophy, Psychology, Scholasticism, Sociology, The Law
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Bernie & The Avengers: A Case Study of American Summer Superheroes
Originally written early summer 2012, prior to the atrocious Batman film and the associated theater shooting. Even though The Avengers is bland, forgettable, recycled, predictable and unengaging, at a certain point – probably the climactic battle sequence – one comes … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernie, Economics, Joss Whedon, Philosophy, Psychology, Richard Linklater, Sociology, The Avengers, Viewings
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Self-Helpless Guide to Social Life
Originally posted to The Pink Wreck in May 2012. Perhaps like the non-practicing pansexual engendering agent of these familiar shapes you have at times been cast as the lead role for a script in which the main character approaches a … Continue reading
Posted in Rambles
Tagged Creativity, Economics, Nature and Nurture, Philosophy, Psychology, running on, Sociology
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Squalls of Text 