Currently I’m reading Nina Burton’s ‘Livets tunna väggar’ which translate to something like Walls of Life. It’s a book by a Swedish writer who inherits her mother’s summer house. When she wants to renovate it, she finds all sort of life around and in the house. She uses said life to teach you something about the intellect of various insects and animals, which goes deeper than humans normally think.
It’s a very interesting book that makes me think about non-human life even more. Creatures that are thousands of times smaller than we are have such complex societal structures. Humans have overcommodified animal life for centuries now, seeing them as property and commodities instead of complex and intelligent life forms.
What are you reading?
“In deep shift” I am trying hard to be more disciplined and study well.
Pablo Neruda autobiography in Spanish, to improve my fluency and he’s a Chilean Poet who was a socialist, his life is fascinating.
A jazz theory book, i am trying very hard to learn but I need to practice more, hence why I’m reading the first book.
I have more books I’m ready to take on like The 48 laws of power not because I want to use it on others but because I wanna be aware of how others use this mentality. But I haven’t started.
I have a huge list of theory books I need to begin. I was reading Stalins book the principles of Lenin, I never got around to continuing past the first part but I loved it. I read Maos little red book briefly at a friend’s house that is a very captivating read, I’m looking to get it.
A bunch of social science journal articles
Just Capital right now. Finished the Roman portion of Hudson’s Antiquity - highly recommend this if you’re into pre-capitalist history or if you are interested in debt.
Caliban and the witch, Silvia federici.
Traces the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Europe thru the lens of the witch hunts .
Too many things at once! Right now:
- The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
- Slavery and Social Death by Orlando Patterson
- Valences of the Dialectic by Fredric Jameson
- Settlers by J. Sakai
- The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen
- Light in Gaza edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, and Mike Merryman-Lotze (free at the publisher’s website, linked)
Plus a couple works of fiction, one sort of autobiographical piece, and some computer programming textbooks.
