Tim Christiaens Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Tim Christiaens

@spiritofwilson The classics on this issue are imo Joseph Vogl’s The Ascendancy of Finance and Wolfgang Streeck’s Buying Time. I also wrote about this in Critical Sociology under the rubric of the neoliberalization of the state. https://t.co/PRjmnyWLm7

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Introduce yourself with 7 books ... Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Olga Tokarczuk, Primeval and Other Times Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Joris-Karl Huysmans, A Rebours Primo Levi, If this is a Man https://t.co/ZhG4RTmVxU

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Back in Tilburg and to class preparations for next week. A nice start with a lecture on the ethics of degrowth and Slow Computing by @RobKitchin and Alistair Fraser.

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@_rob_scott If you really want to shock your students, you can give them a chapter from Ivan Illich’s Limits to Medicine.

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Every month I try to read one novel to keep myself from becoming an academic one-trick pony who knows about ‘the literature’ but nothing about literature. This month: Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. https://t.co/xBphLzAAoH

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Stuart Hall about how alienation itself became the expression of the essence of Jamaican identity (Selected Writings on Race and Difference, p. 189). https://t.co/eCS9fiGbOf

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@LidaMaxwell Walter Benjamin’s The Critique of Violence, Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political, and Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer for good measure.

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Brett Christophers compares this practice in Rentier Capitalism to the way shopping malls extract rent from the shops they host. Stores rent out space in a mall to promote their goods to potential customers, while the mall promises a steady flow of interested consumers. (3/4)

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Introduce yourself with 7 books ... Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Olga Tokarczuk, Primeval and Other Times Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Joris-Karl Huysmans, A Rebours Primo Levi, If this is a Man https://t.co/ZhG4RTmVxU

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@NC_Renic Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman + The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Both are magnificent portrayals of the human condition, the misery and suffering of injustice, and how people can nonetheless persist.