I am sorta reading:
Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Dennett
Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Chandrasekaran
And Scientific American Magazine.
I seem to be taking a few months' break. Time management has been kind of a bear.
Books and thoughts on and around them. And some other things. By a Marxist-Leninist-Troskyist Mom.
T is for Trotsky
This started as, and remains primarily, a place to review books and other media from a Trotskyist-Leninist-Marxist perspective. It has become as well a place to review experiences, personal and of the world at large, from that same perspective.
Art and culture are inextricably bound together.
There is a lot of question about what a socialist is. There are a lot of people and groups describing themselves as socialist. I will tell you this:
Here you will find an Internationalist view, as opposed (and in opposition) to a nationalist view. The Working Class is the only International Class. I am a member of the Working Class. You probably are, too.
L is for Lenin
- Clare is Reading!
- In the middle of many books, many magazines, and many situations.
2 comments:
Try David Quammen's The Reluctant Mr.Darwin, a superb intellectual biography. I cheated and listened to the whole thing on my iPod, mostly while on a treadmill in the gym. if you want to read it that way, you can get the CD audiobook from the library and convert it to MP3.
Quammen takes it from the Beagle to the end of Darwin's life and consders all the intellectual currents in science (and theological non-science) at the time. Quammen writes well and is a definite pro-Darwin partisan.
I thank you for the recommend. Though I do plan to get back to Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Dennett's prose style gave me a bit of trouble. I am hoping that the idea coalesces as the book goes on, but the first part is very "info-dump-y", if you will, and feels sort of rushed. It's strange, because I find his essays to be charming, but his books (this one and Breaking the Spell) to be somewhat painful. I cannot even say it's because I disagree with what he's saying, because I never get that far!
Why Darwin Matters is going all right, in that subject vein, though there are philosophical areas with which I disagree (Shermer's outright dismissal of Marx's relavence, for instance).
I am likewise a "pro-Darwin partisan", so look forward to finding Quammen's book.
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