Spring 2013 Book Selection

[Tinea]

Our discussions on How Nonviolence Protects the State and Are Prisons Obsolete? are ongoing, but it's time to begin choosing our next group read.

Does anyone have any topics you want to study? A book collecting dust on your shelf? An author you've heard of but not read yet? Make suggestions here and let's see what piques collective interest.

[abclaret, facilitator]

Many things I want to read (white privilege theory, bell hooks...) but from experience, there is always inertia, if the book is not to hand.

My short list is The London Years, Crack Capitalism, The Civil War in France, Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson, Anarchy in Action and of course African Anarchism: The History of a Movement.

I noticed someone put Paradoxes of Utopia: Anarchist Culture and Politics in Buenos Aires, 1890-1910 in the bookshelf, which could be interesting.

[Tinea]

Crack Capitalism sounds really good.

Another for the pot is Vandana Shiva's Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis.

[Kalin]

Anarchy in Action would have my vote, as it's on my shelf but I'm not likely to get to it any time in the next while without something like this to motivate me.

Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements would also be one I'd like to read as part of a book group.

[Tinea]

That it y'all? What else? Anyone want to 'second' something already suggested?

[Kevin]

I'd second Crack Capitalism which looks interesting and current.

[Romina]

Crack Capitalism also sounds good.

[Christian]

Hmm.. Crack Capitalism sounds good. I haven't gone through the previous group-reads, but I'd also add Direct Action(Graeber), The Art of Not Being Governed(Scott), and Resistance, Rebellion and Death(Camus).

[Tinea]

So far Crack Capitalism is the only book that got seconded. I'll give it till the end of the week-- if something else gets a "this one too!" then we'll put it to a vote, otherwise, we'll start with Holloway in April.

[Kalin]

I seconded Anarchy in Action, but i suspect I know which way the winds would blow in a vote.

[Tinea]

Kalin wrote: "I seconded Anarchy in Action, but i suspect I know which way the winds would blow in a vote."

Awesome, sorry I didn't see that! I don't think I missed any others?

And don't be too sure, a lot of people come out of the woodwork once the poll is up.

[Tinea]

Poll is up!