Journalism & comics applied to the mining sector...looks intense and insightful!
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Journalism & comics applied to the mining sector...looks intense and insightful!
"Faced with the irreconcilability of the given and the evident, those whose lives are beholden to constituted power are more likely to entrench themselves in fictive certainties than they are to renounce them once and for all."
Just attended a panel put on by folks involved in this book on arts/culture work as part of struggles for social change. Haven't read any of it yet, but it sounds like it has some amazing content, and it is beautifully designed!
Nonplussed at the crude biological gender essentialism indulged by a male scientist character in the first chapter, but nonetheless hopeful for this book...
pickA thumbs up, but with reservations. It's well done and Conrad obviously had keen insight into the foibles of agents of revolution and reaction alike. Plus, the lesson that change is both made & resisted by flawed, foolish humans is important. But the underlying contempt for humanity was offputting.
My first Conrad since Heart of Darkness more than 20 years ago. So far, an unpleasant feel to it, but skill and insight too...
"We must stop believing that what the law says about itself is true, and that what the law says about us is what matters."
Only ten pages in and I already know I'll both enjoy and learn a lot from the critical legal theory and radical trans politics in this book..
My first Litsy post, using a book I'm reading at the moment -- a slow, methodical, but well-done social history of the city I'm living in....
