Life is everywhere in momentsAug 20, 2018
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1. The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks...
Fantastic book about a game-player from the anarchistic Culture in an empire playing a game that decides the hierarchies within the empire. It is really amazing. Its prose is brisk yet intelligent that examines the themes deeply while also hiding its twists & turns
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2. History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault...
A fantastic & insightful book that challenges ones conception of sexuality, its history & liberation.

Fun fact: the Swedish translation was done by Britta Gröndal who was a major figure in 50s to 80s anarchism who introduced Foucault to swedish anarchism.

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3. Queering anarchism: adressing & undressing power...

A collection of articles & essays about lgbtq & anarchism. It is really great

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4. From the Tree to the Labyrinth, Umberto Eco...
A book about how dictionaries are dogmatic because they center linguistic epistemology & signs to abstract absolutes rather than freer & historical constructions of social habits. Ofc there is so much more in it. It is amazing
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5. Art as Experience, John Dewey...
One of the best books on how art is encountered via experience & sensuality, not eternal ideas or Reason. It doesn't ignore the role of reflection in our appreciation but it never loses how it is a reflection on experiences.
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6. Bakunin on Anarchy, edited by Sam Dolgoff...
Probably still the best collection of Bakunin's writings. An explosive fragmentary figure who imo is underrated & deserve reflection by us nowadays
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7. Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler... the story of a poc girl who starts a revolutionary movement in a dystopic world. Focus on race, ecology, gender & hierarchies in general Octavia Butler is a master writer who everybody should read.
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8. All about Love, bell Hooks... A book about love & how love works in our current hierarchical society as a tool of domination, gender stereotypes, aggression & control but also how love is liberating.
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9. Simians, Cyborgs & women, Donna Haraway...
One of the best books about feminism, dualisms, anti-essentialism & philosophical works completely. Haraway criticises feminist theories for their assumed essentialism & criticises modern society for its misogynistic structures as well
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10. Post-Scarcity Anarchism, Murray Bookchin... A fantastic book about anarchism, ecology & desire. It shows how ecology needs to be a constructive part of anarchism as well contains essays on organisation, critique of marxism & so on
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11. Finder, Carla Speed McNeil... A science fiction comic taking place nowhere in a far future with indigenous communities mixed with Urban cultures in a massively creative & interesting setting & great stories
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12. Rabelais & his world by Mikhail Bahktin... a great book on the literary development of the renaissance & especially of grotesque realism & it brought us the term & concept carnivalesque.
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13. Libertarian Communism by Ernesto Screpanti... a great interpretation of Marx & Engels that bring out their emancipatory selves. Still to ignorant of other schools of socialism but tbh I am used to that from Marxists by now
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14. Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson... one of the best naturalistic books ever written. It depicts the migration & terrsformation of Mars with amazing poetry as well as its inevitable social, economic & political troubles & revolution
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@aPebbleintheSky I still need to read that one...
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@OmaceHERO Omg it is the best work
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@aPebbleintheSky I'm still working through Speech Genres, so I'll pick that one up one I'm done.
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@OmaceHERO nice