[A recently-hatched cicada adult, drying out before its first flight.]
This was another busy week and most of my mental capacity was occupied by the current chaos of American politics, as well as stories coming out of the Olympics, though I have yet to see any actual events. I will need to look for recordings when my time frees up. So somewhere around summer 2035.
Reading
I am bouncing back and forth between three books – Jim Harrison‘s Farmer (which I finished yesterday), Vanessa Angelica Villarreal‘s Magical/Realism, and Maurizio Lazzarato‘s Capital Hates Everyone. All are good, and enough different from one another that I can read them all without them colliding in the extremely narrow space of my attention span and mental capacity.
Writing
Journaling and poetry seem to be the mood of this past week. Completed a lot of the former and started a few of the latter.
Subject: Spiritual Beings, Language
Setting: Boardroom
Genre: Weird Fiction
Listening
Interesting Links
- “The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it. ” (Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic)
- “The not-so-strange shortage of conservative professors” (John Quiggen, Crooked Timber)
- “Eight Reasons Mask Bans Are Beyond Stupid” (Lambert Strether, Naked Capitalism)