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Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie |
Does the collective anger of Indian people find outlet through one violent person or is a force of pain and revenge created with a life of its own? | ||||||||
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Noise: The Political Economy of Music by Jacques Attali |
Music history as a vision for social understanding and prediction. Music as power; totalitarian use of noise, censorship, commodification of music, cultural appropriation, and political economy. | ||||||||
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Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (William Weaver, translator) |
Last spring, Leon Mott came into work with a glint in his eye and a peaceful smile spread across his face. He had just finished this book and although he said few words, his demeanor raved about the book. Eco, a semotician from Italy wrote a labrinth of a story, detailing a thousand year quest for the source of all knowledge and power. He writes about mad European men and their desire to harness divinity. The plot pulls you along the feverish pace, except in a few moments. All movement ceases and the beautiful simplicity of life reveals itself. | ||||||||
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Against Method by Paul Feyerabend |
He takes the history and philosophy of science to Theoretical Anarchism school. Exposes the power and prevalence of propaganda in scientific method; Feyerabend demands inclusion of alternative viewpoints (read: individually and culturally specific explanations for the origins and mechanics of the Universe) for the growth of science. Very cool, indeed. | ||||||||
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Racist Culture by David Theo Goldberg |
Anti-liberalist polemic, more valuable in its criticism of academic and sociopolitical treatments of race and racism. Should be crammed down the throat of every old hippie liberal educator in America. | ||||||||
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Nationalism and the Politics of Quebec by Richard Handler |
Takes the study of the French Canadian secession movement and turns it into a treatise on how nationalist ideologies and social science practices are similar, even using and abusing each other as they are deployed. Both act as if social units (families, nations, cultures) are clearly defined or definable, a premise he challenges as unnatural and dangerous. | ||||||||
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The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi |
Deftly and ruthlessly explores the human elements of the Holocaust which make the slogan "Never Again" ring hollow. | ||||||||
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Race Matters by Cornell West |
In this slim volume of essays Cornell West examines issues that people of color face while caught in the aftershocks of Reaganomics. Rejecting both liberal and conservative approaches, West defines racial inequality as primarily a phenomenon that affects the economy and not the other way around. Most relevant to the African-American community, however anyone concerned with post-Affirmative Action politics could extract value from these thoughtfully written essays. | ||||||||
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