SO excited to read some mother-effing #solarpunk fiction!
#KimStanleyRobinson's "Ministry for the Future".
Yay! Excited to get into "All We Can Save" by @ayanaeliza and Katherine K. Wilkinson
Next read, this time with the kiddo. "We Are The Water Protectors"
Beautiful illustrations. The right story.
The #Equity, #Diversity, and #Inclusion Working Group (EDIWG) at #NASA, published a white paper called "Ethical Exploration and the Role of Planetary Protection in Disrupting Colonial Practices" and it calls for incorporating #anticolonial practices as we explore other worlds. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08344
Next Read? The Murray Bookchin Reader
https://archive.org/details/TheMurrayBookchinReaderMurrayBookchin/page/n13/mode/2up
#ecology- focused #anarchism is about the furthest thing I can think of from #AynRand; maybe there will be similarities to #TheDispossessed.
I'm going to give this a shot! "Sustaining Lake Superior" by Nancy Langston is about a mass effort of #conservation and #recovery in a time of #ClimateChange.
Just finished "The Fall of Gondolin" by #jrrtolkien. More moved than I expected to do.
Before that "Deus X" by Norman Spinrad was the read. I first read it in high school, dusted it off as a pallet cleanser. A cyberpunk novel musing on the soul of software while the global ecosystem collapses.
#currentlyreading "Mission Economy" by Mariana Mazzucato. A call for stakeholder, rather than shareholder #capitalism.
#currentlyreading "The Word for World is Forest" by #ursulaleguin
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/6031af62-c833-455a-a0cb-efec553d4c86
"Wild Seed" by #OctaviaButler was amazing. I inhaled it in two days.
I finally read "Ghost in the Shell" by Masamune Shirow. The manga basis for the classic 1996 film. Did you know the entire book is available on archive.org?
https://archive.org/details/manga_Ghost_in_the_Shell_1/GITS1/mode/2up
I finished reading the Lord of the Rings again. This time around the anti-industrialist, naturalist themes really stood out to me. The evil done to the Shire is industrialization; to win, our heroes end up deconstructing a coal-fired mill and building back a water-powered one.
"Upgrade Soul" by Ezra Clayton Daniels was a trip. https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/e4c3adef-b553-4176-8ff5-68f099c4205f
/panting
Just finished "Blackout / All Clear" by Connie Willis! What a monster.
Just finished Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre
Great #scifi fare.
New Read: "Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings" by Peter Kropotkin.
Apparently Kropotkin's writings inspired #ursulaleguin's "The Dispossessed". I've been on a Russian Revolution history binge of late, so I'm excited to add this to the mix.
Will the #fediverse #anarchist community come out of the woodwork? 😃
Also on deck, when the fit takes me, is #ursulaleguin's "Tao Te Ching"
"Basic Bakunin", by the Anarchist Federation, is a brief pamplet on the writings of Mikhail Bakunin. A contemporary of Marx - apparently the two agreed about the problems of capitalism but clashed over how to address them. Bakunin inspired Kropotkin (see above in the the thread). Adding to my collection of late 19th-century revolutionary thinkers.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anarchist-federation-basic-bakunin
Finished "Russia in Flames" by Laura Engelstein. A history of the Russian civil war. TL;DR? It was brutal.
Currently reading "Building Soil" by Elizabeth Murphy. The principles of building #soil health.
"Nature's Best Hope" is superb. The author advocates that we grow native species in our yards (and minimize our grass lawns) to provide food for the insect and bird populations we love.
So many of Philip K. Dick's stories are about being trapped and struggling (usually failing) to escape.
Murray Bookchin's "Ecology of Freedom" is supposed to be his magnum opus, I'm just hoping that one of these anarchists (Bookchin, Kropotkin, Bakunin) will eventually tell me what the ideal society actually looks like.
"The Anarchist Handbook" is a collection of essays by various authors: https://1lib.us/book/14727303/4691c0?id=14727303&secret=4691c0
Solarshades, by Andrew Dana Hudson
A #solarpunk short story about quiet mobilization and energy transition, with critical analysis.
"Parable of the Talents" by Octavia Butler
I've read that a lot of great figures in history had trouble connecting with their children. That part of the story rings true. The Trump-Jarrett parallel was eerie considering this story was written decades ago.
In "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz recounts a colonialist and imperialist history U.S. Americans are not taught in school. Changing things for the better requires one to first understand what is and has been, and this book is a great instrument to educate oneself.
"Environmental Monitoring with #Arduino" Emily Gertz and Patrick Di Justo
I don't have Arduino, but I've got a bread board and my work has me focusing on tech for the environment. Let's do this!
I'm already in love with "Make: Tools - How They Work and How to Use Them" by Charles Platt
It's essentially a collection of very simple "how to" guides. It feels like a written version of what YouTube tutorials have evolved into, if that makes sense.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/8e4e020a-97f1-405c-85c7-014d85445cd0
"Sprint" by Jake Knapp seems to be required #design reading?
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/a8374734-7753-4817-8891-17bc149f0194
Also read "Future home of the Living God" by Louise Eldrich.
Current read is "Glass and Gardens #Solarpunk Summers"
The editor, Sarena Ulibarri, introduces the book by explaining how she selected the stories for the anthology. The stories she selected didn't need to be about #SolarPower or to be #anticapitalist, "but I tried to choose stories that depict adaptation and compromise rather than destruction and conquest, stories that value empathy and cooperation over greed and competition."
This one is for work - "Cross-Cultural #Design" by Senongo Akpem. https://bookwyrm.social/book/235300
A great tidbit: "Culture has a huge, yet often overlooked, effect on what we consider aesthetically pleasing. It's common for Western designers to point to concepts like rational type systems, clean lines, an absence of decoration, and mathetmatical layout grids as universally 'good' design without realizing that most of those principles originated in the century-old #Bauhaus movement." #books
Finished John Green's "The Anthropocene Reviewed". Really good! Green speaks simply but the words strike hard.
I can tell I'm going to inhale this one. Becky Chambers' "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet"
Yes, I inhaled that #BeckyChambers book. The thing I liked most about it was the optimism. People overcame their problems by being empathetic, vulnerable, by overcoming their flaws, by growing.
It gives me a model for what I can do in my own #writing.
@Argus it's clear you read a lot and enjoy sharing. Have you tried @bookwyrm ? It's an #opensource federated book sharing/reviewing platform 📚📒
@davidoclubb @bookwyrm Just discovered it! I really like bookwrym.social, it seems to handle the social component better than, say, goodreads.
https://bookwyrm.social/user/DerekCaelin/review/64231