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Tom Bremer

Inciting Joy by poet and essayist Ross Gay explores incitements to experiencing #joy in topics from #skateboarding to #gardening to pop music to pick-up #basketball to creating a community orchard—a lot of life, some grieving, plenty of #humor, plus social commentary all mashed up in joyful observations. These thoughtful, thought-provoking essays are a thoroughly enjoyable read.

#BooksWorthReading #essays #RossGay #BloomingtonIndiana #Philadelphia
rossgay.net/inciting-joy

ROSS GAYInciting Joy — ROSS GAY
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Political Jouissance by Slavoj Žižek, 2024

When we oppose or disagree with something important, do we ever really do it dispassionately? Isn't setting the world to rights or condemning a political opponent always done with a hint of relish, or at least enthusiasm? This book's challenging essays explore the modes in which that transgressive pleasure of political 'jouissance' operates.

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Rather than delegitimizing or depoliticising, the tacit enjoyment of outrage can in fact facilitate different forms of engagement. The tendency for groups to be bonded by a common enemy, for example, brings with it a protection from censure or persecution, and a way of alleviating guilt. In this collection, the authors seek out jouissance in the battle against patriarchy, in social revolts, in the age of mechanical surveillance, in the necrosociety of neoliberalism, or the proliferation of conspiracy theories.
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Garth Coghlan

finished reading The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
Essays on the author's experience of schizophrenia (along with bipolar, PTSD & chronic Lyme!) in the US. Fascinating & unsettling view into psychiatric hospitals, mental health 'support' in Ivy League colleges, and what the hell a psychotic break feels like. Blimey.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Essays #Autobiography #MentalHealth #Schizophrenia

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ReviewDBBook - The Collected Schizophrenias: EssaysAn intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected
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Morality and Self-Interest Edited by Paul Bloomfield, 2007

Ever since "Know Thyself" was inscribed at Delphi, Western philosophers have struggled to understand the relations between morality and self-interest. This edited volume of essays pushes forward one of the oldest and most important debates in philosophy. Is morality a check on self-interest or is it in one's self interest to be moral?

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Can morality and self-interest be understood independently of each other? Christopher Morris, The Trouble With Justice Mathias Risse, Nietzsche on Selfishness, Justice, and the Duties of the Higher Men Richard Joyce, Morality, Schmorality David Schmidtz, Because It's Right Thomas Nagel, The Value of Inviolability Samuel Scheffler, Potential Congruence Stephen Finlay, Too Much Morality Terence Irwin Scotus and the Possibility of Moral Motivation Ralph Wedgwood, Butler on Virtue, Self Interest, and Human Nature Julia Annas, Virtue Ethics and the Charge of Egoism W.D. Falk, Morality, Self, and Others Paul Bloomfield, Why It's Bad To Be Bad Joel Kupperman, Classical and Sour Forms of Virtue Michael Stocker, Shame and Guilt; Self Interest and Morality
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The Zinn Reader Writings on Disobedience and Democracy by Howard Zinn, 2009

Historian, leftist activist, author of the popular People's History of the United States (New Pr., 1995) and other works of history, politics, and drama, retired professor Zinn has compiled 61 previously published essays on various historical topics and illuminates here his passionate commitment to social justice and political and economic democracy.

archive.org/details/zinnreader

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The essays are arranged in six categories: race, class, war, law, history, and "means and ends." Lucid and at times poignant, they convey Zinn's belief that a historian's judgment about what should be written reflects her or his values. Some of the riveting events covered include the social revolution of the Civil Rights Movement, Allied atrocities during World War II, the murderous suppression of the Attica, New York, prison rebellion, and the hagiographic persistence of the Christopher Columbus narrative. Recommended for academic and public libraries.?Charles L. Lumpkins, Bloomsburg Univ. Lib., Pa. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus Reviews A welcome collection of essays and occasional pieces by the dean of radical American historians. This portly tome is primarily intended for the Howard Zinn faithful, of course, of whom there are likely to be many; his People's History of the United States has sold 400,000 copies, after all. For the uninitiated, this collection offers a useful introduction to Zinn's idealistic, Marxist-anarchist view of the world, a view he has championed for many decades.
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Travis F W

I think you should be interested if you want to publish #essays, #poetry, #articles, #newsletters, news, and essentially anything that could fit the old #blog paradigm.

One significant difference is that the character limit will be discarded for a pixel limit. A post will be a page. A thread may be downloaded as an #epub.

Code snippets will be a first-class entity for tech lit.
Scientific references will be a first-class entity for science lit.
If you're a writer, you will have what you need.

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The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin, 2013

Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her
customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of readings.

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The Wave in the Mind includes some of Le Guin's finest literary criticism, rare autobiographical writings, performance art pieces, and, most centrally, her reflections on the arts of writing and reading. From Booklist Le Guin is stimulating company. A profoundly creative and prolific fiction writer who has won a half-dozen major awards and enticed readers to science fiction who otherwise might not have ventured into that fantastic terrain, she is also a forthright, incisive, and funny essayist. In her second nonfiction collection, a piquant, morally lucid, and enlivening volume graced with a well-chosen phrase of Virginia Woolf's, Le Guin considers the pleasures and significance of reading, the true meaning of literacy, the power of the imagination, and the writer's responsibility. On a memoiristic note, she remembers her anthropologist father and Native American family friends. On the literary plane, she praises libraries as sacred places that embody freedom, pays homage to Borges and Twain, dissects the assumptions behind the designation "creative nonfiction," and analyzes the "rhythms of prose." And Le Guin is breathtakingly hilarious on the subjects of age, beauty, and womanhood. Candid, earthy, and deeply involved in the human experience, Le Guin is artist, mentor, and friend. Donna Seaman
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Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope by Catherine Coleman Flowers, 2025

An inspiring collection of essays, personal and political, from the leading environmental justice activist of our time, that frames the challenges we face as a society and—with grace, generosity, and hope—charts the way toward equity, respect, and a brighter future.

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Described by Bryan Stevenson as “the center of the quest for environmental justice in America,” Catherine Coleman Flowers has dedicated her life to fighting for the most vulnerable communities—rural, poor, of color—who have been deprived of the basic civil right to a clean, safe, and sustainable environment. Both deeply personal and urgently political, the essays in Holy Ground draw on history to illuminate and contextualize the most pressing issues of this moment: from climate change to human rights, from rural poverty to reproductive justice, from the notorious history of Lowndes County, Alabama, to the broader crisis of racialized disinvestment in the South. Flowers maps the distance and direction toward justice, examining her own diverse ancestry as evidence of our interconnectedness. She reflects on trailblazers who have fought for social and environmental justice. She writes about her mother, a civil rights activist who lost her life to gun violence, and her own deeply personal experience with reproductive justice. And in a remarkably candid and moving piece, she writes about a traumatic attack that occurred at a moment of collective triumph, in which she weighs her fight for the common good against her own well-being. Flowers’s faith shines throughout the collection, guiding her work and inspiring her vision of our responsibility to one another and to our shared home.
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Ross Young

Impactful stories, essays, podcasts, etc. for me from the past week. If you've engaged with these or you do so after seeing this, I'd love to hear thoughts, questions, epiphanies they have generated for you:

Fix The News 286: *Iron Winds*
fixthenews.com/286-iron-winds/

*What Radicalized You?* from New Means by @joshuaphilll
jphilll.com/p/what-radicalized

*Managing Overwhelm Amid Trump's Chaos* from Organizing My Thoughts by @MsKellyMHayes
organizingmythoughts.org/manag

*Building Counterculture* from The Reframe by @JuliusGoat
the-reframe.com/building-count

*The 'Decline' of Nations: How Elite Surplus and Inequality Lead to Societal Upheaval* from The Great Simplification podcast
pca.st/episode/3762dee5-f899-4

*Let's Learn and Live: Lessons in Collective Survival* from the Movement Memos podcast
pca.st/episode/3b77d729-5307-4

Fix The News · 286: Iron WindsA planet straight out of science fiction. Plus, one year of malaria vaccines, California's MPAs are working, child mortality down in Asian countries, garden cities in the Amazon, cleaning up the Arctic, and fuel demand levels off in China.
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ITSEC News

My Take: Will decentralizing connected systems redistribute wealth or reinforce Big Tech’s grip? - For the past 25 years, I’ve watched the digital world evolve from the early days o... lastwatchdog.com/my-take-will- #stepsforward #topstories #privacy #essays #mytake

The Last Watchdog · My Take: Will decentralizing connected systems redistribute wealth or reinforce Big Tech’s grip? | The Last WatchdogFor the past 25 years, I’ve watched the digital world evolve from the early days of the Internet to the behemoth it is today. Related: Self-healing devices on the horizon What started as a decentralized, open platform for innovation has slowly but surely been carved up, controlled, and monetized by a handful of tech giants. […]
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