Alienation, autonomy, and ideology
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.
Many readers know I like to set a common theme for the year. For this year’s theme, I chose value and the corporate workplace, a topic I’ve also written about in prior years. So far, I’ve hit this theme in a number of ways. But one way I might summarize it all? Work won’t love you back.
Imagine my surprise, then, when I found out labor journalist Sarah Jaffe recently wrote a book called Work Won’t Love You Back.
Let’s take a look at Jaffe’s book.
It’s time for another monthly reading list! For this month, I’ve been turning to a bit more fiction, as well as some more literary non-fiction. Now that we’re more than a year into COVID-19, I’m thinking a bit about what I’d be reading in a coffee shop. I think most of these would make great coffee shop books.
Welcome to the March edition of our reading list series! For this round, I’ve focused mostly on non-fiction (with one alt-history exception). I’ve included everything from Roman history to contemporary politics. Enjoy!
So, I read lots of science fiction books, and therefore lots of sci-fi book series. After all, the sci-fi book series forms of the core of the genre. An author writes a good book, leaves enough on the table to allow for more, the book gets popular, and then: Bam! It’s a series. It’s happened hundreds of times.
But I don’t often write about science fiction in this blog. I did write about the curious implications of one book in the era of COVID-19, and another in the era of automation. But I’ll go a little bigger in this post. Here are some of my favorite sci-fi book series.
With the second reading list post of 2021, I’ve moved mostly to fiction (with a bit of feminist geography thrown in!). No TV shows or movies this time. Just books.
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