Reading List // June 2021

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Selections from the Web:

Fassler, Joe. 2013. “‘You’re a Parasite’: The Stark Morals of James Agee’s Great Depression Essay.” The Atlantic. June 19.

Graeber, David. 2013. “A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse.” The Baffler. April.

Miéville, China. 2019. “Silence In Debris: Towards an Apophatic Marxism.” Salvage. April 2.

Rogan, Kevin. 2021. “Send in the Clouds.” Real Life. June 21.

Books and Journal Articles:

Books:

Clifford, Alexander. 2020. Fighting for Spain: The International Brigades in the Civil War 1936–1939. Yorkshire: Pen and Sword Books.

Sochor, Zenovia A. 1988. Revolution and Culture: The Bogdanov-Lenin Controversy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Book Chapters:

McQuillen, Colleen and Julia Vaingurt. 2018. “Introduction.” In The Human Reimagined: Posthumanism in Russia. eds. Colleen McQuillen and Julia Vaingurt, 1–36. Boston: Academic Studies Press.

Journal Articles:

Badiou, Alain. 2021. “The Paris Commune: Marx, Mao, Tomorrow.” Monthly Review 73 (1): 60–68.

Hervouet, Ronan. 2021. “The Moral Economy of the Kolkhoz Worker, Or Why the Protest Movement in Belarus Does Not Seem to Concern the Collectivized Countryside.” Slavic Review 80 (1): 61–68.

Films:

[↻ = Rewatch]

Pájaros de verano [Birds of Passage] (2018)

Блокада [Blockade] (2005)

Государственные похороны [State Funeral] (2019)

Маяк [The Lighthouse] (2006)

Assassins (2020)

Crossing the Line (2006)

Bo Burnham: Inside (2021)

Nhà Cây [The Tree House] (2019)

Druk [Another Round] (2020)

Tenet (2020)

星溪的三次奇遇 [Three Adventures of Brooke] (2018)

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

Возвращение [The Return] (2003)

Out of My Hand (2015)

자유의 언덕 [Hill of Freedom] (2014)

Nostalghia [Nostalgia] (1983)

Процесс [The Trial] (2018)

Tangerine (2015)

High Flying Bird (2019)

Bottle Rocket (1996)


Image: Taylor R. Genovese, June 15, 2021, Forest Fire Sun, Gilbert, Arizona.
Written on June 30, 2021