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Fredrik’s 2023 Year in Books
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Fredrik deBoer
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my debut novel
I'm thrilled to say that my debut novel, titled The Mind Reels, will be published by Coffee House Press in 2025. It's the story of a young woman, new to college, as she slowly loses her mind.
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"Fantastic premise: the progressive loss of memory, experience, and ability partly due to a seemingly natural phenomenon, partly enforced by the titular 'Memory Police'. I liked the messiness of the whole thing, that things don't really disappear, but"
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HATE: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship (Inalienable Rights):
"The cover says it all: History reveals that free speech is vital to human freedom. Strossen backs it up with a solid book.
This is as true now as it was a week ago (before the 2024 presidential election) despite how much has changed. As Strossen puts i" Read more of this review » |
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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension:
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is on page 56 of 288 of A Comprehensive History of Renaissance Italy: Launches immediately after the 2-page preface into listing exactly what crops were grown in each region of Italy. It looks as though it's literally half the book before we get to any narrative or political history. I admire the reckless commitment to the boring.
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| This book is, obviously, very dated in many core ways - who would write a book about blogs now?, I say as a blogger - but its deeper analysis remains apt and convincing. Dean is interested in how the networks in which blogs are/were embedded pull the ...more | |
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| I still consider myself an academic, but I'm now more than four years removed from any formal position in academia, and it's exceedingly unlikely I'll ever be back. My journey and its ultimate failure is all bound up in issues related to my mental il ...more | |
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| 1. The actual text here is exceedingly tiresome, a list of little internet-poetry aphorisms that connect to nothing else in the text and clearly were written independently. That feeling haunts the entire book, the feeling that a series of quirky/deep ...more | |
“It’s a bitter irony of contemporary American life: it is in our most progressive spaces that we see the most social inequality. As the urban sociologist Richard Florida has demonstrated, those cities that are the most liberal—New York, San Francisco, Austin—also are home to the greatest income inequality and wealth segregation.”
― The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice
― The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice
“The concept of the end of policing and prisons was not new in 2020. There have been leftists advocating for police and prison abolition for as long as I’ve been politically conscious. Activists demanding the abolition of police had a large corpus of theoretical writing to draw from. But there was usually a key difference between the older school of police and prison abolition and the demands of the most impassioned days of 2020: the former almost always imagined that a world without formal policing would emerge only after other society-altering changes had taken place. Typically, this was defined as the fall of capitalism and the establishment of some sort of socialist system, a system without poverty and deprivation. In other words, the radicals I knew might imagine the end of the police, but they imagined that end would come after the revolution. To debate the concept in 2020 was to skip a lot of steps. This was a general issue in the first year after Floyd’s murder, a sense that people wanted to dodge the hard work that would have been necessary before society-altering changes could take place. In part because of the extremely low odds of success for a police abolition movement, many who supported defunding the police insisted that the intent had never been to abolish the police at all. In this telling, “defund the police” means reducing the budgets of police departments, drawing down their resources, and redirecting some of those funds to other uses,”
― How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
― How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
“If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.”
― How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
― How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
“Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.”
― 1984
― 1984
“If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power. Racism gets its power from capitalism. Thus, if you're anti-racist, whether you know it or not, you must be anti-capitalist. The power for racism, the power for sexism, comes from capitalism, not an attitude.”
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“The scene before her flattened, lost one of its dimensions, and the noise dribbled irrelevantly down its face. Something was coming. This moment, this very experience of it, seemed only the thinnest gauze. She sat in the audience thinking--someone here has cancer, someone has a broken heart, someone's soul is lost, someone feels naked and foreign, thinks they once knew the way but can't remember the way, feels stripped of armor and alone, there are people in this audience with broken bones, others whose bones will break sooner or later, people who've ruined their health, worshipped their own lives, spat on their dreams, turned their backs on their true beliefs, yes, yes, and all will be saved. All will be saved. All will be saved.”
― Tree of Smoke
― Tree of Smoke
“Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether - God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love. It set fire to a bush in the desert, didn't it, and smashed open graves and set the dead walking in the dark. Oh, a man like me would run a mile to get away if he felt that love around.”
― The Power and the Glory
― The Power and the Glory
