Practicing New Worlds
Andrea J. Ritchie
Andrea Ritchie draws from Black feminist abolitionist politics, emergent strategies, and speculative fiction to light up a path for surviving racial capitalism, growing fascism, and the climate crisis
Ammari
On The Dispossessed
Projection
On Who’s Afraid of Gender?
Who’s Afraid of Gender?
Judith Butler
Judith Butler looks hard at the rise of anti-gender ideology in order to break apart how it works, and what, in turn, we must do about it.
Dreaming awake
Walk the road your dream goes.
Take small steps
On Seeing Like a State
Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott
The classic opus about how states fuck up.
Lower stimulus environments
On Stories Are Weapons
Stories Are Weapons
Annalee Newitz
Weapons used abroad always come home, and weapons of the mind are no different.
The Wood at Midwinter
Susanna Clarke
In this short fable of midwinter, Susanna Clarke tells of the speech of dogs and pigs and foxes and the woods themselves, who talk to those who know how to listen.
To serve and guide
On The Middle Passage
The Middle Passage
James Hollis
“Mid-way in life’s journey / I found myself in a dark wood, / having lost the way.”
The sweet and the swill
On The Sea and Summer
Accountability sinks
On The Unaccountability Machine & Just Culture
The Unaccountability Machine
Dan Davies
Dan Davies hypothesizes that organizations form “accountability sinks”—structures that serve to obscure, deflect, or otherwise insulate decision makers from the consequences of their decisions.
A peasant woodland
Playing in the dirt.
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labutat
A book that is both fiction and non-fiction, both wave and particle, both history and imagination, and somehow, something else entirely.