the leftist struggle can be most succinctly described as the effort to create, through a ruthless dialectical process, the perfect post, which will trigger an ice-9-esque chain reaction and remake the entire world into its final utopian shape overnight.
03.01.2024 00:36 β π 425 π 88 π¬ 5 π 4
Book thread 2023: 36.)
The Elements of Style Fourth Edition (2000/1935) by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White.
Some useful writing advice but also what fusspots.
03.11.2023 06:49 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
35.) The Wretched of the Earth (2021/1963) by Franz Fanon tr. by Richard Philcox.
The last shall be first.
Incredible that Arendt tried to say he glorified violence. Fanon rightly pointed out its necessity for liberation and also the immense toll it takes on the colonized.
29.10.2023 01:03 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
All a microwave needs is a (+30sec) button. Everything else is bourgeois excess.
20.10.2023 01:13 β π 1858 π 291 π¬ 67 π 25
If I die, I die with honor
17.10.2023 21:29 β π 694 π 47 π¬ 45 π 1
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34.) The Twenty Years' Crisis 1919-1939 (1981/1939) by EH Carr.
Much better than Morgenthau in not fetishizing status quo. But weirdly critical of Marx, especially since his contrast between utopinanism and realism is so compatible with dialectics.
17.10.2023 06:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Free Ebooks for a Free Palestine!
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33.) Palestine: A Socialist Introduction (2020), eds. Sumaya Awad & brian bean.
A very good overview of the history of Palestine (mostly post-Ottoman) and Zionism/Israel. Would recommend for anyone who cares about justice + free ebook:
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32.) Imperial Classroom: Islam, the State, and Education in the Late Ottoman Empire (2002) by Benjamin C. Fortna.
Very good and shows the problems with dichotomizing West vs. East and Secular vs. Religious in late Ottoman society.
14.10.2023 05:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Book thread 2023: 31.) Social Theory of International Politics (1999) by Alexander Wendt.
He should have dropped the claim IR is a science but overall did a great job showing how ideas give meaning within IR and that this does not mean the system is easy to change, only that it's possible.
10.10.2023 23:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Doing research
10.10.2023 08:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Poop here often, beautiful?
01.10.2023 06:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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30.) The History of Sexuality: Volume 1 (1978/1990) by Michel Foucault.
Have long been meaning to read Foucault and his arguments challenging conventional history of sexuality are pretty compelling.
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29.) The Age of Revolution 1789-1848 (1962/1996) by Eric Hobsbawm.
Unsurprisingly excellent from perhaps the greatest Marxist historian of his generation.
26.09.2023 05:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
cut my dick into pieces, oh no my peanus horts
29.06.2023 18:50 β π 539 π 107 π¬ 10 π 3
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27.) Realism: A Distinctively 20th Century European Tradition (2021), eds. Alexander Reichwein and Felix RΓΆsch.
It's pretty amusing to me that Europeans *want* to claim realism but this is a good edited volume for more background on influential realist scholars.
21.09.2023 04:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
StarTrek
19.09.2023 03:29 β π 158 π 31 π¬ 2 π 0
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27.) The Geometry of Imperialism: The Limit's of Hobson's Paradigm (1978) by Giovanni Arrighi.
Fine at showing the contextual limits of Hobson's (and Lenin's) definition of imperialism, but sociologists love using shitty graphs to give their work a veneer of scientific rigor.
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26.) The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare.
Sadly, dudes again do not rock and Katherine was cool before Petruchio abused and gaslit her.
11.09.2023 07:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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25.) The Ottoman Empire 1700-1922 (2005) by Donald Quataert.
Good gΓ©nΓ©ral overview of late Ottoman history that does a decent job of not being too state or Turk/Istanbul centric.
10.09.2023 04:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
big can chili
10.09.2023 03:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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24.) Politics among Nations: The Struggle for Peace and Power (1948) by Hans J. Morgenthau.
Foundational work in the classical realism school. Rightly debunks liberalism's view of IR but fetishizes status quo (inc colonialism) and abhors revolution while wanting intl gov/peace.
09.09.2023 04:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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23.) The Historian's Craft (1953) by Marc Bloch.
I don't entirely agree with his admonition against judgment, but his arguments against strict temporal and subject boundaries in history is spot on.
May his memory be a blessing. Murdered by Nazis because he chose to fight them.
04.09.2023 21:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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22.) Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire (2023) by Mostafa Minawi.
An excellent examination of imperial and ethnic identity formation which shows the contingent nature of being a "loyal" imperialist versus a "traitorous" non-Turkish nationalist.
01.09.2023 20:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
His head is so big so he can explain Hegel to me
30.08.2023 08:41 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
the history of words is neat
29.08.2023 20:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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21.) Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society Revised Edition (1983) by Raymond Williams.
I only started it because it is the theme of a postdoc application, but it ended up being a very interesting etymological study that really helps with a lot of nebulous words.
29.08.2023 20:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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20.) The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci (2017) by Perry Anderson.
Perry is always a pleasure and his analysis of some of the contradictions in Gramsci's work (understandable as he was imprisoned) really has helped my own analysis of Gramsci's incredible theorizing.
27.08.2023 01:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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19.) King Lear by Shakespeare.
Probably the best and most depressing one Iβve read yet. Gonna watch Kurosawaβs Ran soon now that Iβve read this.
26.08.2023 06:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
2023 book thread:
18.) Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci, ed. and trans. Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith (1971).
His conception of hegemony and necessity to articulate a dominant ideology for it is great.
His writing on America and gender were rough.
23.08.2023 06:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Iβm a Rivendell 3 but a Hobbiton 9
19.08.2023 20:23 β π 61 π 14 π¬ 0 π 0
