Reading List // April 2021
Selections from the Web:
Burnett, Hannah Eisler and Tucker Rae-Grant. 2021. “Cargo Ships and Comrades: On the Occasion of the Beached Ever Given.” Platypus. April 13.
McCray, W. Patrick. 2017. “Silicon Valley’s Bonfire of the Vainglorious.” LA Review of Books. July 17.
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
Endō, Shūsaku. 1969. Silence. Translated by William Johnston. New York: Taplinger Publishing Company.
Gilman-Opalsky, Richard. 2020. The Communism of Love: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Exchange Value. Chico: AK Press.
Strugatsky, Arkady and Boris. [1969] 2020. The Inhabited Island. Chicago: Chicago Review Press.
Book Chapters:
Johnson, Bob. 2019. “Energy Slaves: The Technological Imaginary of the Fossil Economy.” In Mineral Rites: An Archaeology of the Fossil Economy, 61–84. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Journal Articles:
Hanukai, Maksim. 2020. “Resurrection by Surrogation: Spectral Performance in Putin’s Russia.” Slavic Review 79 (4): 800–824.
McQuillen, Colleen. 2020. “The Scorched and Deleted Earth: Terrestrial Decadence in Fin-De-Siècle Russia.” Russian Literature 114-115: 23–43.
Yurchak, Alexei. 2019. “Communist Proteins: Lenin’s Skin, Astrobiology, and the Origin of Life.” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 20 (4): 683–715.
Films:
[↻ = Rewatch]
Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) ↻
Exterminate All the Brutes (2021)