Welcome to the final reading list post of 2021! As the year ends, I’ve continued reading books on baseball. But I’ve added to that some books on quarantine and tech politics.
Read on and enjoy!
Category: Books (Page 11 of 21)
These are posts about books from the blog Base and Superstructure. Occasionally I’ll read a book worth talking about, and write some thoughts on it. These cover a wide range of topics from the blog.
As we enter our second pandemic winter, I’m reading a wide range of things. Some baseball. Some nostalgia. And some science. If you’re interested in some new reads this winter, continue on for the full list.
For decades, the left has split roughly into a pro-work and an anti-work camp. David Frayne doesn’t exactly frame his book The Refusal of Work as a contribution to that debate. But lots of people on the anti-work side cite it in support of their views. And so, I recently read The Refusal of Work with an eye toward its implications for that debate.
I’ll lay out a few thoughts on The Refusal of Work in this post. I think the book makes some valuable contributions to moral and political debates about work. It lays out some of the problems with work and helps us imagine alternatives. But I don’t think Frayne does many favors for the anti-work socialist camp.
Welcome to the October 2021 edition of the reading (and watching) list! Here are some things I’m reading (and watching) lately, as we move fully into the fall. Hopefully this gives readers some ideas for what to pick up as they lose fall leaves and prepare for colder weather.
And now we’re moving from summer into fall. I can’t say I organize my reading too much around season, but maybe it has an impact.
Let’s find out. Looking down at the list, I see a bit more on politics. As well as one leftover summer novel.
