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Month: July 2022

  • as if there was necessarily just one transition

    Graeber and Wengrove again, referring to archaeological evidence from the soi disant ‘Fertile Crescent’: If the situation in just one cradle of early farming was that complicated, then surely it no longer makes sense to ask, ‘what were the social implications of the transition to farming?’ — as if there was necessarily just one transition,…

  • Rosengårds station

  • detect patterns that would be otherwise invisible

    Just over twenty pages into Graeber and Wengrove, confident from the outset that I was in safe hands, and I hit this: “Now, we should be clear here: social theory always, necessarily, involves a bit of simplification. For instance, almost any human action might be said to have a political aspect, an economic aspect, a…

  • 15JUL22 / accessions

    Few days late, these, but the accessions department is running at reduced capacity due to annual leave. Doom Patrol because I’ve known of it for years, but never read it. New Nina Allan because new Nina Allan. The Rankin-Gee because I read the blurb and was reminded almost instantly of half a dozen unfinished stories…

  • 09JUL22 / accessions

    Well, you can’t attend a convention and not buy books, can you? Especially not if they’re (presumably) remaindered stock going at considerably less than the usual face cost of books in Scandinavia, which is Not Cheap. The Jemisin because I was hugely impressed by the Broken Earth series, and figure I should try more of…