January
Did
- Went skating with friends at our local rink. ⛸
- Ordered so many things for Slug.
- Started east coast swing lessons with Monique. 👫
- 🎂
Read
- Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
- Stephen Harper by John Ibbitson
Quotes
The political poetry of left-populism may rhyme nicely with the language of the movements and resonate strongly with a public mood that is increasingly indignant at the inequities of financial capitalism and the corruption and unresponsiveness of the political elite—but it still remains the poetry of the past, embedded within a political imaginary that is wholly out of sync with the latest trends in capitalist development and the emerging forms of class struggle.
If it is not immediately obvious, for instance, how struggles over university tuition fees relate to urban uprisings against anti-black police violence or workers’ demands for a fair minimum wage, it will be difficult to bring such disparate movements together beyond superficial lip-service to “intersectionality” or ephemeral expressions of solidarity.
– Towards a New Anti-Capitalist Politics by Jerome Roos
Links
- Headcold by Warren Ellis
- Our Generation Ships Will Sink by Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Power of the Material or: Make something and keep it on your desk by Michael Bernstein
- How Friendships Change in Adulthood by Julie Beck
- How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult by David Roberts
- Papers, Please: Auditing SSH Access at Spreedly by Erich Smith
- Towards a New Anti-Capitalist Politics by Jerome Roos