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| obviously needs to be updated to take the Occupy Movement into account and especially OCCUPY SANDY, which satisfies many of the demands he makes in his final chapter. Would also like to see an engagement with the grotesque nostalgic Tory fantasy that...more | |
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| what it says on the cover. VERY useful exploration of the development of the concept of 'feudalism' in German, French, and English jurists, and how the split of the modern from the medieval functions as a sovereign 'miracle' a la Carl Schmitt. Slaver...more | |
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teaching this in April a favorite, though atpypical bit "the car in front of me was giving voice to my grief, although it was a nerveless and bloodless device. It was a mourner. The machine mourned as man could not, with a force and a relentlessness: a...more |
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Good people of Goodreads: if you don't read experimental fiction on a regular basis, you should start elsewhere, or work your way slowly into this book, or else you'll get infuriated and frustrated and give it a 1-star review full of defensive ran...
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Terri's review of This Fine Place So Far from Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class:
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One of only 2 books I know that truly speak to the traumas inherent in the experience of upward mobility. While we're all aware of the burdens one gets to shed as they move up the social ladder from a world of subsistence to having a career or a p...
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| can't decide if it wants to be socialist or deeply reactionary. would like to have had London do a working-men's version. standard account of reversion to base,which, in this case, means 'prehistoric' inferior to Purple Cloud in its account of the fi...more | |
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