Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Pandemic Technology

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  “Global Civil War – Capitalism Post-Pandemic” by William I. Robinson, 2022 Robinson’s thesis is that the CoVid pandemic super-charged ca...
Sunday, November 17, 2024

Multi-Culty Christendom

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  “Dancing for the Devil : The 7M TikTok© Cult” documentary by Jessica Acevedo, 2024 I’m looking at YouTube© and I’d been watching groups ...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Gothic Enough For You?

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  “Capitalism – A Horror Story. Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination” by Jon Greenaway, 2024 I’m not a fan of horr...
Monday, November 11, 2024

Lifestyles of the Poor and Alienated

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  “Living a Marxist Life : Why Marx is a Drug You Should Probably Take” by Andrew Pendakis, 2024 On the cover of the book is a picture of ...
Friday, November 8, 2024

A Friggin' Saint

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“Vera Drake” film by Mike Leigh, 2004 This is a realist, ‘kitchen-sink’ film about providing secret abortions in London in 1950.   Aborti...
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

The Great Dictator

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  “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui,” by Bertolt Brecht, 1941. Adapted, 2016. Frank Theater Reading Frank Theater’s planned production of...
Saturday, November 2, 2024

The Social Geography of Harlem

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  “Harlem Shuffle” by Colson Whitehead, 2021 There’s a 1963 R&B song called “ The Harlem Shuffle .”   In a way there’s some literary ...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Who Rules the World Again?

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  “The Titans of Capital – How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity," by Peter Phillips, 2024 This is an update of Phillips’ excell...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

Back in the Day...

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  “Pacifism as Pathology – Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America” by Ward Churchill and Michael Ryan; Preface by Ed Mea...