by Julia Feliz
Against the brainrot
Reading the Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom by Stephen Platt (highly recommended), I was particularly impressed by the rules of life of Zeng Guofan, the conqueror of Taipings.
Early violence is a bad teacher. But the mind can learn anew | Aeon Essays
A world of violence sustains itself through guns, poverty and other social ills, but also through the minds it creates
Explosivity by Javier Arbona-Homar | East Bay Booksellers
How explosions across history reveal the violence embedded in San Francisco’s landscape Offering a novel approach to contemporary landscape studies, Explosivity unearths the hidden legacies of violence that have shaped the physical and cultural environment of the San Francisco Bay area.
The Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston | East Bay Booksellers
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • From the National Book Award-winning author of China Men and The Woman Warrior comes a work weaving fiction and memoir into a luminous meditation on war and peace, devastation and renewal.
Nothing Beside Remains — Big Echo
There’s a line in an old Martin Petto review of Zachary Jernigan’s No Return that prompted me to take a long hard look at my understanding of the recent history of genre literature. Having explained that Jernigan’s book is not actually about the brutal face-punching depicted on its cover, Petto observes that Jernigan uses so many tropes from so many different genres that attempting to locate these tropes within a particular literary tradition is effectively impossible:
La canicule favorise la hausse des violences envers les femmes
Plusieurs études montrent que les épisodes de fortes chaleurs peuvent favoriser les comportements violents. La période actuelle, entre canicule, Coupe du monde de football et arrivée des vacances, constitue un terreau particulièrement fertile pour les violences conjugales et domestiques.
RESPONSES TO THE CALIFORNIAN IDEOLOGY BY CELIA PEARCE
The publication of 'The Californian Ideology' has inspired an impassioned debate over the issues raised by the article. Here is a selection of some of the most interesting responses to the piece:
Caliban and the Witch
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation is a 2004 book by Italian-American intellectual Silvia Federici. Responding to both feminist and Marxist traditions, the book offers a critical alternative to Karl Marx's theory of primitive accumulation.
‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza
The long read: Mako Nishimura fought her way into the Japanese underworld, but drug addiction and the slow demise of organised crime gangs almost destroyed her
Review: ‘Chaos Monkeys’ Is a Guide to the Spirit of Silicon Valley (Published 2016)
Underneath the braggadocio and evisceration of professional nemeses in Antonio García Martinez’s book lies the beating heart of a formidable teacher.
Introduction to K-Punk, Vol. 3: English Language Version
Prior to the release of K-Punk, Vol. 3 — the third and final volume of Caja Negra’s Spanish translation of k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016) R…
