![]() that Glenelg's slaves were in love with their master, that they couldn't bear to be without him." Jean Paulhan, Happiness in Slavery ![]() ![]() About two hundred Negroes of both sexes, all of whom had recently been emancipated by the Proclamation of March, came one morning to beg their former master, a certain Glenelg, to take them back into bondage. "In the course of the year 183 8, the peaceful island of Barbados was rocked by a strange and bloody revolt. Something that men have always reproached them with: that they never cease obeying their nature, the call of their blood, that everything in them, even their minds, is sex." Jean Paulhan, Happiness in Slavery, preface to The Story of O, by Pauline de Reage ![]() At last a woman who admits it! Who admits what? Something that women have always till now refused to admit (and today more than ever before). ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The longest section in the book harkens back to before the Palm Sunday incident, when the family’s life is utterly controlled by Papa’s religious tenets. The reader will later learn that the postcolonial Nigerian government’s killing of his partner and silencing his newspaper coupled with Auny Ifeoma's liberating effect on the children, Kambili's first period, and Jaja's growth beyond the world that Papa can provide for him is the catalyst for this most harsh of beatings Papa will deliver and for which Mama will kill him. ![]() Mama has endured great hardship at the hand of the uncompromisingly cruel Papa, and this will be Papa's last attempt to control his family in the name of his God. The explosive action followed by silence is not new, but Kambili (the narrator, Jaja's sister) and Jaja have experienced newer, freer worlds outside this one, so their perspective of his violent episodes has changed. The title of this first section, “Breaking Gods,” implies a shattered spirituality, reflected in Mama’s (Beatrice Achike’s) broken figurines, and the fury with which Papa (Eugene Achike) throws his missal, God’s word, at Jaja (Chukwuka Achike), the son who rejects his father’s God. The novel begins with its climax, a violent domestic scene resulting from many months of frustration and change. ![]() ![]() ![]() But did government regulators and corporations? Ten years later, there is good news. The ease with which ordinary activities caused dangerous levels to build in their bodies was a wake-up call, and readers all over the world responded. To expose the extent of this toxification, environmentalists Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie offered themselves to science and undertook a series of over a dozen experiments to briefly raise their personal levels of mercury, BPA, Teflon and other pollutants. Daily life was bathing us in countless toxins that accumulated in our tissues, were passed on to our children and damaged our health. In 2009, a book transformed the way we see our frying pans, thermometers and tuna sandwiches. It's amazing how little can change in a decade. The landmark book about the toxicity of everyday life, updated, revised and re-issued for its 10th anniversary, along with the experiments from Smith and Lourie's second book, Toxin Toxout. ![]() ![]() Penguin Books Limited, Political Science - 416 pages. And, most importantly, we see how we can fight to overcome these divisions. Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance. In making these linkages, we see how the current hegemony keeps social justice movements divided and marginalized. How does politics shape our world, our lives and our perceptions? How much of 'common sense' is actually driven by the ruling classes' needs and interests? And how are we to challenge the capitalist structures that now threaten all life on the planet?Ĭonsequences of Capitalism exposes the deep, often unseen connections between neoliberal 'common sense' and structural power. ![]() 15 2021 by Noam Chomsky (Author), Marv Waterstone (Author) 366 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 14.29 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 97.50 1 Used from 127.85 7 New from 78. Everything depends on the actions that people take into their own hands.' Noam Chomsky Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance Paperback Jan. It represents both a crisis and an opportunity. 'Covid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system. Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society. An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series 'What is Politics?' ![]() ![]() ![]() And that he was a bastard,” you could expect such a line from a noir novel, from a pulp novel, from a detective novel. By the time Crumley wrote, “Then he told me about naked women and sunlight. They had art injected into them like adrenaline into a stammering heart and art drawn out of them like venom from a snake bite. Noir, pulp, and hard-boiled detective fiction had been around the block a bit by the time James Crumley got his hands on them in the late 70s. And then isn’t it about finding the one thing so many seek-forgiveness-and being so unprepared for it, so unable to cope with it, so incapable of corroborating the idea of your self with the idea of your self as someone worthy of forgiveness, that you destroy everything in your life? Doesn’t it always start with writer’s block? And isn’t it always about sex? And money? And, sure, sex for money? Or at least a man wanting to own his wife’s past, because men want to own everything of the women they marry. Or at least a successful writer with a couple critically acclaimed poetry collections and a few hyper-masculine novels to pay the bills on an epic cross-country drinking binge, leading a PI hired by the writer’s ex-wife from dirty bar to dirty bar. Or at least a successful writer with a couple critically acclaimed poetry collections and a few hyper-masculine commercial novels to pay the bills. Doesn’t it always start with poetry? Or at least a poet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Throw in the largest consumer market in the world, and you have a system that uses Big Money as a cover for murder and savagery. Add to that thousands of migrants and a booming industrial sector. Behind the curtain lurk the drug cartels and the drug war. One thing is clear: a breakdown in law and order fuels the killings. Most of the real cases he used as sources, a string of rapes and murders in the late 90s, remain unsolved. ![]() Bolaño keeps the murder mystery intact, and with good reason. It has everything you want in a crime novel-hardboiled detectives, a seedy underworld, rampant corruption-minus the big reveal. But for all the heavy lifting, it still reads like a page-turner. The size and scope of it force you to think globally. The second time around, I think I understood why 2666 is a Big Book That Matters. As the web of evidence spreads, the search for the serial killer gets tangled in the search for a reclusive novelist whose bio bears a curious resemblance to the author B. Everything else-and there’s a lot-unspools backward and forward in time, leaving a trail of cryptic clues across two continents. At the center is a series of unsolved murders around Santa Teresa, a mythic city on the Mexican border, much like Ciudad Juárez. Roberto Bolaño’s five-part beast of a novel calls for some amateur detective work. Even as I was reading 2666 the first time, I knew I would need to read it again. ![]() |