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Long time, no post...
Busy writing and stuff.
And organising a Manhunt in Sheffield next Saturday. (How long is it since you last played Hide & Seek? Too long, I'm guessing...)
I'll reply to those outstanding comments soon, I promise, but at 0315 all I'm up to is using this as a random place to list some books I may otherwise forget to order, but can't justify buying off Amazon - at least until my last order arrives. If you've read any of them and don't think I should bother, do tell me.
Daniel Bell, 'The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism' (old, but I read about it three years ago and it keeps coming back to mind)
Richard Sennett, 'The Fall of Public Man' (read a library copy years ago and, though his overall arguments don't hold together, it's a jumble of fascinating digressions which I find myself wanting to refer to)
'Politics Without the State', ed. George & Mudede (several chapters by Nicolas Veroli, whose essay on Descartes & the enclosure of knowledge, 'How a Fiction became the Truth', is brilliant)
Andrew Ross, 'No Collar: The Humane Workplace and its Hidden Costs' (thanks to http://www.bonkworld.org/media/swfs/skive/onskiving.pdf)
Charles Leadbeater, 'Up the Down Escalator' (because I'm preoccupied with optimism, pessimism and hope and suspect I'll disagree with it - although since writing it, he's become fascinated by Illich - albeit a rather sanitized, secular version)
Also the history of the department store which Sennett quotes from in 'The Fall of Public Man'
It really is time to sleep...
Busy writing and stuff.
And organising a Manhunt in Sheffield next Saturday. (How long is it since you last played Hide & Seek? Too long, I'm guessing...)
I'll reply to those outstanding comments soon, I promise, but at 0315 all I'm up to is using this as a random place to list some books I may otherwise forget to order, but can't justify buying off Amazon - at least until my last order arrives. If you've read any of them and don't think I should bother, do tell me.
Daniel Bell, 'The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism' (old, but I read about it three years ago and it keeps coming back to mind)
Richard Sennett, 'The Fall of Public Man' (read a library copy years ago and, though his overall arguments don't hold together, it's a jumble of fascinating digressions which I find myself wanting to refer to)
'Politics Without the State', ed. George & Mudede (several chapters by Nicolas Veroli, whose essay on Descartes & the enclosure of knowledge, 'How a Fiction became the Truth', is brilliant)
Andrew Ross, 'No Collar: The Humane Workplace and its Hidden Costs' (thanks to http://www.bonkworld.org/media/swfs/skive/onskiving.pdf)
Charles Leadbeater, 'Up the Down Escalator' (because I'm preoccupied with optimism, pessimism and hope and suspect I'll disagree with it - although since writing it, he's become fascinated by Illich - albeit a rather sanitized, secular version)
Also the history of the department store which Sennett quotes from in 'The Fall of Public Man'
It really is time to sleep...