Craig Meadows
@dawnslovenport
Continuing Status Sessional Faculty, Department of Sociology, UBC. Weirdo Lefty Gen-X. Social & Political Theory. Anti-property curmudgeon who just wants to yell at kids to get off his lawn. He/him
Summer reading book #12: Theodor Adorno. Philosophy and Sociology
First book haul from the prof dev fund in two years. Primarily from left wing books.net
And on to book #11: Sonn-Rethel’s Intellectual and Manual Labour.
Ellen Meiksins Wood’s The Origin of Capitalism as summer read #10
Finishing the Sekyi-Otu book was a slog thanks to the latest health issue, but damn it was good. Up next: Delanda’s New Philosohy of Society
Summer reading #7: 22 years since I read parts of this book in grad school. Long past time for a full read
Summer reading #5: Patrick Wolfe: Elementary Structures of Race.
Summer reading #4. Back is improving so hoping to pick up the pace.
Tried reading this a while back and ran out of time. Looking forward to it
Slow start to summer reading thanks to health problems, but now onto book #2. Mothers of Conservatism by Michelle Nickerson
Happy 208th birthday, Karl Marx. (pic is a visit to Karl's burial site by the main characters in High Hopes (1987) by Mike Leigh, an amazing film).
Shifting very abruptly from over employed to under employed. First book on the trading list:
Someone out there is teaching this feckin' book, and not critically:
Saw one of those “#1 movie in your tenth birthday” things and looked it up. I did see this one…
May I suggest the following all purpose gift for anyone involved in any gift giving this year:
Because everything is a spectrum to these nutbars, and they cling to the idea that they have anything to do with an actual 'left.'
Finished Toscano on fascism. Now for a dive into this eagerly anticipated text
Up next for this summer’s reading. Stoked after previously reading her book Family Values
I thought the campaign at York when I did my graduate studies was the worst. Living to be proved wrong, I guess.