[The American] obsession with mobility, the urge to move on every few years, stands at odds with the wish to endure in a beloved place, and no place can be worthy of that kind of deep love if we are willing to abandon it on short notice for a few extra dollars. Rather, we choose to live in Noplace, and our dwellings show it. In every corner of the nation we have built places unworthy of love and move on from them without regret. But move on to what? Where is the ultimate destination when every place is Noplace?James Howard Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape (New York: Touchstone, 1994), 173. Emphasis added.
now reading
Planned books:
- The Life of the Cosmos by Lee Smolin
Current books:
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Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos by Eric J. Chaisson
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A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey
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My System: 21st Century Edition by Aron Nimzowitsch
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Their Morals and Ours by Leon Trotsky
Recent books:
- The Heritage We Defend: A Contribution to the History of the Fourth International by David North
- What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression: A Guide For Activists by Victor Serge
- Vietnam and the Chinese Model : A Comparative Study of Nguyen and Ch’ing Civil Government in the Fir by Alexander Woodside
- The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean by Engseng Ho
- Negara: The Theatre State In Nineteenth-Century Bali by Clifford Geertz
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