northern-fires
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Finished reading: Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs) by Richard K. Morgan 📚
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2020: Project Review
To view other 2020 review posts, visit the main post here. Outside of work, I had several projects this year. Frankly, ... -
A song for Columbus Day 🎶
(which should actually be Indigenous Peoples’ day) 🎶: Silent Planet - Native Blood The barren wastes, bearing dow... -
“The hallucinatory world of anticommunism-without-communism is dangerous and violent. Its partisans believe they face an existential threat, which in principle licenses almost any level of violence”
From: Why is the nationalist right hallucinating a ‘communist enemy’?
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Reading histories of the Spanish Civil War for #NorthernFires and the parallels to the reactionary scaremongering movements in the USA keep adding up. Example:
“Despite the moderate basis of the new cabinet, the right reacted as if the bolsheviks had taken over the government.”
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Another repeated theme from Battle for Spain: people tend to simplify conflict to just about left/right, but the conflicts were on other axes as well: up/down (authoritarian/libertarian) and centralist/decentralist. #NorthernFires
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I’m reading Battle for Spain as part of #NorthernFires and what is old is new, again. I’m not far in and so much of history is repeating itself.
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Syllabus #NorthernFires
I’ve started a series where we’ll be examining the lyrics and source material for Silent Planet’s Nor... -
Altered Carbon the novel that inspired the Netflix Series is on sale for 3 bucks today.
This is one of the books referenced in Silent Planet’s Northern Fires, so feel free to grab it if you are following along in that blog series.
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Introduction #NorthernFires
Ration my breath - terror clandestine in my chest These are the opening words in Silent Planet’s - Northern Fires (Gue...
