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Continue reading “Review: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna”A middle-aged white woman smiled warmly at them from behind the till. “Lovely afternoon, isn’t it?” she said, abiding by that ancient and most sacred British law of only ever starting a conversation with a comment on the weather.
Chapter 12 of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
Continue reading “Review: Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris”Starving the peasants into the factories is the classic narrative of proletarianization, the creation story of the industrial working class. California didn’t have the factories of a Manchester, UK; a Lyon, France; or a Lowell, Massachusetts, but the state took on a factory orientation towards what it did have, which was gold and land. Unlike so much of the world, California did not see capitalist economics evolve step-by-step out of feudal property relations. Capital hit California like a meteor, alien tendrils surging from the crash site.
Page 20 of Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris
March was mostly the month of the non-fiction book sprinkled along with a bit of video game and a TV show.
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Continue reading “Review: Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber”Final Working Definition: a bullshit job is a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence even though, as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is not the case.
pages 9-10, chapter titled “What Is a Bullshit Job?”
Continue reading “Review – Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden”Christian men. Englishmen. Mediocre, hateful men who’ll steal the world.
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