Author: seanv2
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Review: Crimethinc’s Days of War, Nights of Love
Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink For Beginners Crimethinc. Crimethinc. All the rage in 2000, largely forgotten now. Of all the things they did (newspapers, magazines, other books) this was the best. A pretty clear indictment of late capitalism in America and a call to live life fully. Of course, eating out of dumpsters…
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Review: Bey’s Temporary Autonomous Zones (T.A.Z.)
TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism (Autonomedia New Autonomy Series) Hakim Bey Hakim Bey is, probably, patient zero of the lifestyle anarchist school of thought. We can trace back to this New York eccentric much that came later in the 1990s and 2000s, including Crimethinc anrcho-primitivism, think pieces on Burning Man and…
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Review: Dufourmentelle’s Negri on Negri
Negri on Negri: in conversation with Anne Dufourmentelle Antoni Negri and Anne Dufourmentelle Antonio Negri – seventies radical reborn in the early 2000s as darly of the left with his massive theoretical work on the nature of late capitalism and resistance to it (Empire and Multitude). He’s one of the few fashionable Marxists that one…
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“A whole bunch of nothing” – Totals for the week ending 12.13.2015
Run Miles for the week: 0 Run Miles for the year: 1350 Projected total run miles for the year: 1411 Run Streak: 0 Run Streak Mileage: n/a Days Until I Beat My Old Streak n/a Bike Miles for the Week: 0 Bike Miles for the Year: 557.9 Projected total bike miles for the year:…
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Review: Cohen’s Book of Numbers
Book of Numbers: A Novel Joshua Cohen A new addition to the burgeoning genre of MFA writers try their hand at thrillers. A diverting read about a failing young writer (name Joshua Cohen) who is hired to write the biography of a mysterious and eccentric Silicon Valley billionaire (also named Joshua Cohen) whose company may…
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Review: Stephenson’s Seveneves
Seveneves: A Novel Neil Stephenson Neil Stephenson is among my favorite authors, and my number one go-to dude for popular fiction. His writing is clear, his characters well developed, and his research top of the line. He is one of the few authors whose books I buy no questions asked, as soon as they come…
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Review: Hoffman’s Savage Harvest
Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art Carl Hoffman A strange and fascinating book that uses the mystery of Michael Rockefeller’s disappearance in New Guinea to trace the author (and our societies) fraught relationship with indigenous peoples. Was Rockerfeller killed? Was he eaten? Did he kind of…
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Review: McDougall’s Natural Born Heroes
Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance Christopher McDougall The second book by Christopher McDougall, the author of the bestselling, and controversial, Born To Run, this book attempts to cover the guerilla war on the Island of Crete during WWII, parkour, and high fat diets.…
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Training Totals for the Week Ending 12.6.2015
Run Miles for the week: 24 in 4:21:42 Run Miles for the year: 1350 Projected total run miles for the year: 14408 Run Streak: 0 Run Streak Mileage: n/a Days Until I Beat My Old Streak n/a Bike Miles for the Week: 0 Bike Miles for the Year: 557.9 Projected total bike miles for…
Milo and the Calf 