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*Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century* by Dorothy Roberts*We Must Learn to...

*Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century* by Dorothy Roberts
*We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and Talk About a Little Culture* by Sylvia Wynter
*Unpayable Debt* by Denise Ferreira Da Silva
*The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism* by Edward E Baptist
*The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean* by Nick Nesbitt
*Capitalism and Slavery* 3rd ed by Eric Williams

I tend to have large arcs in my reading choices for a given year. I am still finishing up (and will likely continue) reading on...

I tend to have large arcs in my reading choices for a given year. I am still finishing up (and will likely continue) reading on psychoanalysis and sex but want to move to a more focused phase on race and economics (I clearly like to keep things non-controversial). Here is a draft list so far.
What y'all planning?
*Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class* by Eric Lott
*The Invention of the White Race* (2 vols) by Theodore Allen
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I asked ChatGPT if God exists and received a fairly lame 'liberal' response. In my mind I was like, 'Pfft it clearly hasn't...

I asked ChatGPT if God exists and received a fairly lame 'liberal' response. In my mind I was like, 'Pfft it clearly hasn't read Lacan'. I then asked what Lacan's understanding of the existence of God was ... and the answer wasn't too bad.

Podcasts are pretty great for ranking the 'to-read' list.Found myself stoked on an Eric Santner podcast but pretty meh on Lorenzo...

Podcasts are pretty great for ranking the 'to-read' list.
Found myself stoked on an Eric Santner podcast but pretty meh on Lorenzo Chiesa.

The hostility of erotism is an attempt, repeated over and over, to undo childhood traumas and frustrations that threatened the development...

The hostility of erotism is an attempt, repeated over and over, to undo childhood traumas and frustrations that threatened the development of one's masculinity or femininity." 2/

Started Stoller's *Sexual Excitement: Dynamics of Erotic Life*. His thesis caught me off guard but is intriguing in light of the reality...

Started Stoller's *Sexual Excitement: Dynamics of Erotic Life*. His thesis caught me off guard but is intriguing in light of the reality that 'sex' seems to remain the site of the best and worst of humanity.
After acknowledging various physiological realities Stoller maintains that, "it is hostility - the desire, overt or hidden, to harm another person that generates and enhances sexual excitement. ... 1/

“The sexuality of the patriarch is less ‘male’ than it is deadly.’ - Klaus Theweleit *Male Fantasies*

“The sexuality of the patriarch is less ‘male’ than it is deadly.’ - Klaus Theweleit *Male Fantasies*

<reading some Soviet history and come across the line>… and he was shot in the Caucusus…<giggles involuntarily>

<reading some Soviet history and come across the line>
… and he was shot in the Caucusus…
<giggles involuntarily>

Year end top readsFictionTsitsi Dangarembga - Nervous ConditionsUrsula K Le Guin - The Left Hand of DarknessCasey Plett - A Dream of a...

Year end top reads
Fiction
Tsitsi Dangarembga - Nervous Conditions
Ursula K Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
Casey Plett - A Dream of a Woman

Non-fiction
David Graeber and David Wengrow - The Dawn of Everything
Andreas Malm - White Skin, Black Fuel
James Daschuk - Clearning the Plains
Sarah Schulman - Conflict is not Abuse
Claus Peter Clasen - Anabaptism, a Social History, 1525-1618
Da’Shaun Harrison - Belly of the Beast
Thomas W. Laqueur - Solitary Sex
Full list
https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/31494395

Winnipeggers, whenever you complain about the weather, do not be like the hypocrites to the south; for they love to log in & complain on...

Winnipeggers, whenever you complain about the weather, do not be like the hypocrites to the south; for they love to log in & complain on all the platforms, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But when you complain about the weather, go into your room, shut the door, find another blanket & complain to your Father who stayed in and was only born in a warm climate; and your Father will reward you with smug condescension for that's all its good for.

I remember looking at #Haiti on google maps and noticing the stark difference in greenery along the border to the Dominican Republic.At the...

I remember looking at #Haiti on google maps and noticing the stark difference in greenery along the border to the Dominican Republic.
At the time I did know something of the debt Haiti owed France for its 'loss' of slavery.
I'm reading Aristide's beautiful little book *Eyes of the Heart* where he talks about the massive logging undertaken to make debt payments, which led to broad soil erosion, which led to...
The afterlife of #slavery remains stark in so many forms.

Watched *Barbarian* last night & whowee it tried to do it all!Loved the imagery of the afterlife of white supremacy in Detroit.The...

Watched *Barbarian* last night & whowee it tried to do it all!
Loved the imagery of the afterlife of white supremacy in Detroit.
The inability of the white male to be recuperated under #meetoo
The clarity of the homeless black man to see what is happening
The dying white patriarchy masturbating his way to suicide
*Mother* as white feminism, the best white supremacy could do.
And finally the protagonist navigating all this.

Winnipeg, we cannot claim *as a city* to care about Indigneous women and the unhoused unless we *as a city* draw on the vast resources...

Winnipeg, we cannot claim *as a city* to care about Indigneous women and the unhoused unless we *as a city* draw on the vast resources lodged within household investments and corporate holdings. Until then we are unjust city. Until then we will exhaust, burnout and embitter the people who are constantly forced to bear the brunt of these realities. I will try to work and give charitably but that will always be triage and not an answer. There is enough.

"How can one name a desire? One circumscribes a desire." #Lacan Seminar XI

"How can one name a desire? One circumscribes a desire." #Lacan Seminar XI

- #Lacan Seminar XIThis would not have solved poor approaches during #postmodernism but it would have served many well to have paid...

- #Lacan Seminar XI

This would not have solved poor approaches during #postmodernism but it would have served many well to have paid attention to this.

"It is false to say ... that interpretation is open to all meanings under the pretext that it is a question only of the connection of a...

"It is false to say ... that interpretation is open to all meanings under the pretext that it is a question only of the connection of a signifier to a signifier, and consequently of an uncontrollable connection. Interpretation is not open to any meaning. This would be to concede [that] ... all interpretations are possible, which is patently absurd. ... [That the] effect of interpretation is to isolate in the subject a kernel ... of nonsense does not mean that interpretation itself is nonsense."

I thoroughly hate the piecemeal nature of addressing anything and everything that is wrong with the world as a whole.

I thoroughly hate the piecemeal nature of addressing anything and everything that is wrong with the world as a whole.

It’s possible to offer care and work for justice without hope or optimism. I’m not saying that is the only or best way but, for myself,...

It’s possible to offer care and work for justice without hope or optimism. I’m not saying that is the only or best way but, for myself, I’ve found it helpful as so many expressions of hope and optimism are more about ideas than people.

Thomas Muntzer railing against "the pope, with all his butter-boys."<looks down to footnote>66. butterbuben; those who have...

Thomas Muntzer railing against "the pope, with all his butter-boys."
<looks down to footnote>
66. butterbuben; those who have licence to eat butter during Lent.