Finished reading: The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu π
Currently reading: A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor π
Currently reading: Aspects of Truth by Catherine Pickstock π
Currently reading: If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino.
Christmas: the perfect time to reread old favorites. π
Finished reading: The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
Another Penelope Fitzgerald book I love.π
Currently reading: The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald π
Finished reading: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel π
Great day at the used book store π
Finished reading: *The New Leviathans* by John Gray
Finished reading: The New Leviathans by John Gray. A book with no single overarching thesis beyond an examination of how liberal democracy is in crisis in the West, and how the alternatives at the moment, primarily Russia and China, are… unsavory. Gray’s book, just 3 brisk chapters, helpfully resuscitates Hobbes as interested in the wide range of forms Leviathan can take to provide order, peace, and freedom to its citizens. Unfortunately, all of these are more or less totalitarianβwhich is why Gray finds in Hobbes a helpful thinker for our age, in which the world is converging on forms of surveillance capitalism:
Currently reading: Your Face Belongs to Us by Kashmir Hill π