So, I blew past the goal I set on Goodreads. I tend to set it very low, because I want to take my time with things, and a lot of my day job involves reading things so I can explain them to people who were supposed to have read them and didn’t. However, due to the ongoing everything, I’ve been mainlining audiobooks when Edgar’s out of the house and I’ve made it extremely fa
Read MoreI tend to set my reading goal a lot lower than Edgar, for a variety of reasons. One of them is the fact that I think aiming to read a large number of books over the course of a year means that you engage less deeply with them. Or, at least, when I do that, that’s how it works for me. Still, I have read a few extremely good books this year.
Read MoreThe class, Postcapitalist Desire, for which you can easily find a syllabus online, was something of a workshop where Fisher was talking through the concepts that were going to go into his last book Acid Communism and it was going to meet for fifteen sessions but Fisher passed away after the fifth one. He took his own life in January of 2017. This fact, for me, hangs over the whole of the book: this brilliant man, who seemed to be an enthusiastic and gentle educator , talking about the possibility of a world that could be free, died before the sixth lecture could be held.
Read Moreit’s 2021; we’re locked in now, and it already feels like it’s been a full year since 1 January. Needless to say, this has been a lot to deal with, and I have been taking refuge, once again, in the written word.
Read MoreSo, classes start for me next week. I have three, and there are (obviously) major computer system problems that are making getting the damned things set up a real headache. As such, two things come to mind: first, for the next sixteen weeks or so, posts might come later in the day; second, I need time to work on things, and the level of invention I normally aim for isn’t really possible this week.
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