Iāve finished Carl Rogersā On Becoming a Person and Dipesh Chakrabartyās Provincializing Europe (which I only browsed).
Iāve finished Carl Rogersā On Becoming a Person and Dipesh Chakrabartyās Provincializing Europe (which I only browsed).
What are we all reading this week?
Iāve gotten off the very short introduction train and have finished Satchanandaās The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and Polanyiās The Great Transformation.
What are we all reading this week?
For sure - heās been quite politically committed the whole tim: his dissertation is published, Iāve read some of it.
I like his work a lot. Am sort of ambivalent about his politics but heās got the chops for both for sure! His book on the communist manifesto is quite engaging too.
Ha yes I donāt include those - but we are finally getting to some real books: Narnia and āAlice in Underlandā.
Also Kautilya but Iāve just been browsing that.
Longest thing Iāve been reading in print is Coetzeeās Provincial Life trilogy but Iāve been on that forever (need to pick up at book 3).
My two year old agrees
Not just now - started the VSIs to prep for a course Iām teaching in the fall and sort of just kept going. What I need to do now is finish the course prepā¦hard to do while watching the little one all day!
Libro.fm, rather
How have the tomes been treating you?
I also support a friendās bookstore with Lindo.fm, but just with one credit a month
Iāve tried to sign up to Libby but I think San Diego has two library systems and my local one is the wrong one - should keep trying!
Iāve been using Spotify and audible premium to scrape the āfreeā libraries.
What I tend to dislike is when the author veers off into clearly personal views.
Iāve only encountered a few that were badly performed - success rate so far with writing is quite high, but Iāve dropped a few that didnāt appeal.
Iāve finally finished Mehtaās Liberalism and Empire. In audiobooks Iāve listened to a bunch more Very Short Introductions: Refugees, Development, Love, Mary Shelley, and Black Holes. Now listening to War and Religion.
What are we all reading this week?
Iāve still been listening to very short introductions: The Maya, Plato, Intelligence, and International Migration.
What are we all reading this week?
More Very Short Introductions for me. Listened to Federalism, Korea, Modern China, and The Buddha.
What are we all reading this week?
Also: Emotion
Lots of them are included in the audible plus and Spotify cataloguesā¦
Oxford University Press, Very Short Introduction series
Iāve read four more very short introductions: Heidegger, Gandhi, Terrorism, Philosophical Method.
What are we all reading this week?
But so far yeah this season is just okay. Favorite episode last season was probably when Laāan meets Kirk.
Curious about the puppet episode.
In print Iāve also been reading Mehtaās Liberalism and Empire.
Iāve finished three more very short introductions: Hume (Harris), Dreaming (Hobson), and Science Fiction (Seed).
What are we all reading this week?
A long day of listening: also Skinnerās VSI to Machiavelli.
I listened to it on Spotify - and I liked it a lot. Only real criticism is that it focused very heavily on Buddhism, but thatās not something I personally had a problem with. Would have been good to also see more political philosophy, such as Kautilya.
Have also finished another VSI: Howeās Empire
It also completely ignores how facts always fit a frame.
I think the function of the phrase "facts do not care about your feelings" has been to code democracy as soppy, effeminate, delusional. It suggests that you are hysterical if you want something more than the present system, which should be subject to acclamation rather than protest or debate.
Iāve finished Chenoweth and Stephanās Why Civil Resistance Matters and three Very Short Introductions: to International Relations (Reus-Smit), to Sociology (Bruce), and to Indian Philosophy (Hamilton).
What are we all reading this week?
Yes I remember enjoying what I read! Other stuff just drew my attention
It definitely wasnāt dry - sort of light on anything more recent in history and focused not so much on sub Saharan Africa but I thought it was quite enjoyable (as I too need to read more such stuff).
Yes - loved it!
Ha yes Iāve started that but didnāt make it very far.
Iāve finished Mudde and Kaltwasserās VSI to Populism and Deweyās The Quest for Certainty.
What are we all reading this week?
Iāve finished Judyās Reappraisals and am on to Passmoreās VSI to Fascism.
What are we all reading this week?
Iāve finished Scottās The Art of Not Being Governed and am now listening to Geroulanosā The Invention of Prehistory.
What are we all reading this week?
"hey 35 to 50 year old newsreading liberals what was the run-up to the iraq war like" is the most precision crafted bait possible on this website
Starting Scottās The Art of Not Being Governed.
Iāve finished Badawiās An African History of Africa. Havenāt yet settled on the next thing.
What are we all reading this week?
My sense is that art history relies pretty heavily on understanding what other art historians are up to.
Iām almost done with Eichengreenās Hall of Mirrors.
What are we all reading this week?
Borderline in a psychological sense?
Iāve finished Figesā Crimea and am almost done with Whatmoreās VSI to The History of Political Thought.
What are we all reading this week?
Finished the Whatmore. Really excellent book.
Iāve finished Hobsbawmās Age of Revolutions, Saga Vol. 12, and Rosenblattās The Lost History of Liberalism. Almost done with Whatmoreās The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis.
What are we all reading this week?
snaxis
Iāve been reading lots of Hobsbawm.
What are we all reading this week?
In audiobooks Iāve finished Hobsbawmās Age of Capital and on to his Age of Empire. Also listening to Whatmoreās The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis. In print am mostly reading these:
What are we all reading this week?
Iāve finished Crewsā Freud and Kershawās Personality and Power. Almost done with Jahnerās Vertigo (which is about culture under Weimar).
What are we all reading this week?
Iāve started Crewsā Freud and am back on Kershawās Personality and Power.
What are we all reading this week?
It's pretty rare that someone who demands you reply to them actually wants to have a good faith discussion More often than not they just want to enjoy the petty feeling of power by compelling dialogue and on their own terms.
Iāve finished Eribonās Returning to Reims, Gerwarthās November 1918: The German Revolution, and Mbembeās Necropolitics.
What are we all reading this week?
Iām reading Eribonās Returning to Reims and am listening to Mbembeās Necropolitics; they go together well.
I have the Stewart, need to go back to it as I enjoyed what I e read. Loved the Goffman. Curious about the others.
looking at horrific images of people in cecot prison as I'm working on some drawn thoughts about it, and struck by how the human is reduced to patterns of confinement in ways I was trying to depict in Unflattening to present an idea of flatness... this is beyond hideous
Works now for instance lol (on our way to the park)
Yeah itās usually just doing house chores or sitting around the park or out for a walk - when Iām playing with my girl I pause it, ditto anything that requires real thought. Easier with some genres than others, helps keep me engrossed and engaged.
Just audiobooks - listen a good 3-5 hours a day.
Iāve finished Coetzee and Kurtzās The Good Story and Berlantās Cruel Optimism. Now reading Eribonās Returning to Reims and Gerwarthās November 1918: The German Revolution.
What are we all reading this week?
never ceases to amaze me how the people who are most allergic to thinking are also the most concerned and controlling about other people's thoughts
I just finished Zubokās Collapse so itās definitely been on my mind.
Just browsed it but yeah - I follow your stuff on rss. May have missed that part.
Yeltsin seems the more obvious comparison imo.
Jasper Ridleyās Mussolini, rather
I should go back to the Ghosh, I have it on kindle (the Berlant too, tho I got audio sync for that recently)
Ha just in one ear throughout the day - mostly the Mussolini and Coetzee atm.
Iāve finished Dixonās VSI to Science and Religion and Luceās The Retreat of Western Liberalism. Now listening to Coetzee and Kurtzās The Good Story, Jasperās Mussolini, Berlantās Cruel Optimism, and Hobsbawmās The Age of Capital.
What are we all reading this week?
Iāve finished Rapportās 1848 and am now on to Kershawās Personality and Power, also back to Berlantās Cruel Optimism.
What are we all reading this week?
It does seem to me like something Mencken would say.
The line is at least often attributed to Lewis.
Also starting Rapportās 1848, a good follow up to the Siemann.
Iāve finished Siemannās big bio of Metternich and am now sort of browsing, am mostly back to Eagletonās Tragedy.