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Take off the training wheels that is third space theory and dive into the big leagues
Henri Levebfre The right to the City and The Production of Space - If I could keep one white french man... David Harvey Rebel Cities:From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution - This is the effort of Harvey to document and argue for urban revolution and heavily dialogues with Levebfre theory of the city being a place of social organizing and revolution. David Harvey Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason - This is a post occupy Wall-Street David Hervey, reviewing a lot of his own work and the work f leftist activism. It's much more interest in the aspects of circulation of capital rather than production, in face of an increasingly financialized economy so his dialogue is much stronger with the Third Volume of Marx's capital SĂ©rgio Ferro Design and the Building Site - My ride or die, Ferro dives into the politics of work in the construction site and how it's tied to the control of knowledge and who can build. Ruth Gilmore Abolition Geography:Essays Towards Liberation - The one author in this list that doesn't work in a Marxist Frame work. Her work is more focused on power and control through incarceration and the racial relations present in it. I recommend reading Achille Mbembe's Necropolitics along side her. F.T.C Manning Geographies of ground rent: Periodizing ground rent theory, spatializing ground rent refusal - This is a short article by Francesca Manning arguing on the importance of the theory of Ground Rent to understand the control and power over land. I questioned this as a rec because is so theory dense, but I really like her work and simply didn't want to leave her out.
Henri Levebfre The right to the City and The Production of Space - If I could keep one white french man... David Harvey Rebel Cities:From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution - This is the effort of Harvey to document and argue for urban revolution and heavily dialogues with Levebfre theory of the city being a place of social organizing and revolution. David Harvey Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason - This is a post occupy Wall-Street David Hervey, reviewing a lot of his own work and the work f leftist activism. It's much more interest in the aspects of circulation of capital rather than production, in face of an increasingly financialized economy so his dialogue is much stronger with the Third Volume of Marx's capital SĂ©rgio Ferro Design and the Building Site - My ride or die, Ferro dives into the politics of work in the construction site and how it's tied to the control of knowledge and who can build. Ruth Gilmore Abolition Geography:Essays Towards Liberation - The one author in this list that doesn't work in a Marxist Frame work. Her work is more focused on power and control through incarceration and the racial relations present in it. I recommend reading Achille Mbembe's Necropolitics along side her. F.T.C Manning Geographies of ground rent: Periodizing ground rent theory, spatializing ground rent refusal - This is a short article by Francesca Manning arguing on the importance of the theory of Ground Rent to understand the control and power over land. I questioned this as a rec because is so theory dense, but I really like her work and simply didn't want to leave her out.
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The other book consistently on my table, it's a short, but time consuming read. It set up a whole new way of analysing the city, by arguing that the urban environemnet has been commodified by capitalism and the acceses to not only the space and reseources, but also the governance of the city had become innacisble to most people.
If you are interested in discussions around third spaces I would highly recommend picking this one up, it goes way beyond the idea of having spaces to interact and form community, but hihglights the city as a space of political dispute and the possibilities of the people to self determine the terms of urban life.
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âI'm suggesting some articles I read recently:
The Commune Form: A Conversation and On the Recurrence of Neoreactionaries - Both are from the most recent edition of the eflux magazine. The first one is an interview with Paris Comunne researcher Kristin Ross, and the second by author Yuk Hui brings a Hegelian analisys to Trump recent re-election
Camp-space: The exceptional duality of the Palestine refugee camp - article that preceeds a small short film about the Palestine refugee camp
Amid Land Disputes, An Unconventional Map Preserves Practices of Secrecy in Indigenous Communities - recent reread when i was writing my counter cartography rec
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đi see you are reading machiavelli and i expect others can/will recommend you other classical political theory so i will recommend a mix of things that are not! those works can be useful but definitely should be read alongside a variety of other voices and perspectives
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- A Peopleâs History of the United States by Howard Zinn - solid history book that intentionally avoids the nationalist lens in mainstream depictions of US history
- Our History Has Always Been Contraband ed. by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor - great intro to Black social & political thought and the history of Black Studies
- Normal Life by Dean Spade - very dense, a critique of the gay rights movement by a trans lawyer
- Mutual Aid by Dean Spade & The Care Manifesto by The Care Collective - accessible, short books that criticize contemporary social services and div of labor in care work
- Elite Capture by OlĂșfĂ©mi O TĂĄĂwĂČ - critique of identity politics - Transgender History by Susan Stryker - very accessible book on the history of trans politics and culture - The Souls of Black Folk by WEB Du Bois - foundational text for critical race theory
a few books on my tbr list i see freq recommended that you may find useful: - A Peopleâs Guide to Capitalism by Hadas Thier - more accessible than Marx etc - Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Davis, Gina Dent et al. - the overlap of feminism and prison abolition - The Case for Open Borders by John Washington - self-explanatory
- An Indigenous Peoplesâ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - self-explanatory
- The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan - of its time but foundational 2nd wave feminist text
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein - self-explanatory - Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick - criticism of progressive left-wing politics inability to be consistent on Palestine some other misc media: - Democracy Now news station/podcast - far better than most mainstream media IMO - 5-4 podcast - fun, accessible critical analyses of supreme court cases - Southlake podcast - case study on modern right-wing school board politics in the US - Amended podcast (i have not finished yet) - more nuanced history of womenâs fight for equality - The 1619 Project essay collection - uses a critical lens to analyze American historical figures and events - Working Class History & Making Gay History podcasts - self-explanatory
- 13th documentary dir. by Ava DuVernay - looks at the US prison system and the central role of racism in its construction/maintenance - Crip Camp documentary dir by James LeBrecht and Nicole Newnhan - follows part of the disability rights movement
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a few books on my tbr list i see freq recommended that you may find useful: - A Peopleâs Guide to Capitalism by Hadas Thier - more accessible than Marx etc - Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Davis, Gina Dent et al. - the overlap of feminism and prison abolition - The Case for Open Borders by John Washington - self-explanatory
- An Indigenous Peoplesâ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - self-explanatory
- The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan - of its time but foundational 2nd wave feminist text
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein - self-explanatory - Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick - criticism of progressive left-wing politics inability to be consistent on Palestine some other misc media: - Democracy Now news station/podcast - far better than most mainstream media IMO - 5-4 podcast - fun, accessible critical analyses of supreme court cases - Southlake podcast - case study on modern right-wing school board politics in the US - Amended podcast (i have not finished yet) - more nuanced history of womenâs fight for equality - The 1619 Project essay collection - uses a critical lens to analyze American historical figures and events - Working Class History & Making Gay History podcasts - self-explanatory
- 13th documentary dir. by Ava DuVernay - looks at the US prison system and the central role of racism in its construction/maintenance - Crip Camp documentary dir by James LeBrecht and Nicole Newnhan - follows part of the disability rights movement
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