The Stuff I Read in January 2024
bold indicates favourites
Novels
Death's End, Cixin Liu
The Maze Runner/The Scorch Trials/The Death Cure, James Dashner
Echopraxia, Peter Watts
Other Long-Form
Against the Gendered Nightmare, baedan [anarchist library]
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Lenin
What Is To Be Done, Lenin
Yuri/GL
Ring My Bell, Yeongol
Dallae, Choonae
Now Loading! Mikanuji
Even If It Was Just Once, I Regret It / Ichido Dake Demo, Koukai Shitemasu, Miyako Miyahara
Maka-Maka, Torajirou Kishi
Blooming Sequence, Lee Eul
Love Bullet, inee
Honey Latte Girl, Ayu Inui
I'm Sorry I Know / Wakatte Iru No Ni Gomenna, Ayu Inui
Night and Moon / Yoru to Umi, Goumoto
Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl / Ikemen Onna to Hakoiri Musume, Mochi au Lait & majoccoid
The Forbidden Peach / Suimitsutou Ha Shoujo Ni Kajirareru, Iroha Amasaki
Goodbye, My Rose Garden, Dr Pepako
Blood Lust, yoshimired [link]
Palestine
The Grim Reality of Israel's Corpse Politics, Jaclynn Ashly [jacobin]
Mohammed El-Kurd and Ahmad Alnaouq on the complicity of mainstream media in Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza [link]
Inside Israel's torture camp for Gaza detainees, Yuval Abraham [archive]
The Work of the Witness, Sarah Aziza [link]
Who profits from keeping Gaza on the brink of humanitarian catastrophe? Shir Hever [archive]
Misreading Palestine, Max Ajl [link]
A Pediatrician's Two Weeks Inside a Hospital in Gaza, Isaac Chotiner [link]
A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation, Fady Joudah [link]
Gender/Sexuality
Assigned Faggot: Gender Roles, Sex, and the Division of Labour, Sophia Burns [link]
Gendered Bodies: The Case of the 'Third Gender' in India, Anuja Agrawal [doi]
Paola Revenioti: The Greek transgender activist on blowing up sexual taboos in the name of art, Hannack Lack [link]
Wages Against Housework, Silvia Federici [pdf]
My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage, Susan Stryker [pdf]
Race
This is Crap, Hannah Black [link]
Social Constructions, Historical Grounds, Shay-Akil McLean [link]
White Psychodrama, Liam K. Bright [doi]
‘I don’t think you’re going to have any aborigines in your world’: Minecrafting terra nullius, Ligia López López, Lars de Wildt, Nikki Moodie [doi]
Singular Purpose: Calculating the Degree of Ethno-Religious Over-representation in the US No-Fly List, Matteo Garofalo [doi]
Iran
Samad Behrangi's Experiences and Thoughts on Rural Teaching and Learning, M. H. Fereshteh [jstor]
The "Westoxication" of Iran: Depictions and Reactions of Behrangi, al-e Ahmad, and Shariati, Brad Hanson [jstor]
Geographies of Capital and Capital of Geographies: Reckoning the Embodied City of Tehran through Cosmetic Surgeries, Marzieh Kaivanara
Economics
China in Africa: A Critical Assessment, Ahjamu Umi [link]
Small Scale Farmers and Peasants Still Feed the World, Report by ETC Group [link]
16 Million and Counting: The Collateral Damage of Capital [link]
The Keynesian Counterrevolution, Mike Beggs [jacobin]
Jobs For All, Mike Beggs [jacobin]
Other
How This Climate Activist Justifies Political Violence, David Marchese interviewing Andreas Malm [NYT]
Against Domestication, Jacques Camatte [marxists dot org]
The Annihilation of Caste, B. R. Ambedkar, [archive]
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