Prompted by a thread in the OpenTEAM slack channel, I’m interested in what the community is reading at the moment (outside of or adjacent to work).
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Sara L. posted about Ladha & Murphy’s recent book Post-Capitalist Philosophy, which was also recently covered on one of my faves, the Frontiers of Commoning podcast.
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I’ve just got a copy of & have been enjoying Maggie Nelson’s new offering, On Freedom. I also reread her masterpiece The Argonauts this summer and man…that one hits differently for me now than it did when it came out a thousand years ago in 2016.
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@gbathree shouted out the magnificent Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler as a way to get vital theory accessibly through narrative rather than via academic ‘inside speak’.
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@jgaehring recommend Katharina Pistor’s The Code of Capital: “which gets into some really interesting connections between how land/real property was coded into law during the period of British Enclosure (13th - 18th centuries) and the way Intellectual Property has been codified in the last century, with significant ramifications for both agricultural and digital commons… The author also did a great video series summarizing the book.”
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On audiobook, highly recommend The Future is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - you could get the text version, but hearing these texts read by the author really made it for me.
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In a recent call, @julietnpn flashed me her copy of The Utopia of Rules by the dearly missed David Graeber, which I can’t help habitually bringing up in almost every conceivable instance. (PDF here).
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Are you team How to Blow Up A Pipeline, or team Learning to Die in the Anthropocene? I vacillate daily & would love to argue amicably about it.
tell me yours! also podcasts, movies, albums, or cool birds you’ve communed with welcome.
Which should answer whether I am on team pipeline or team how to die in the Anthropocene.