Maintained, the Great Barrier Reef, a carbon-sequestration site in Iceland. Nevada desert where a unique native fish species is being quixotically Reverse-flowing Chicago river, the mouth of the Mississippi, a cave in the Visiting some place - an electrified anti-invasive fish barrier on the
Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future A collection of journalistic essays. "reinscribing an essentialized racial binary", but they would actually fit herĪrgument. § *: Lasch-Quinn does not use phrases like Quickly, and anyway she seems to have moved on to other topics. I would pay very good money to read Lasch-Quinn writing seriouslyĪbout 2020 unfortunately this is not the kind of work which can be done that Of sympathy for, even if I suspect she and I would often disagree on concrete There are, equally obviously, some political and ethical commitmentsĪnimating this book, but they are transparent, and honestly ones I have a lot
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Ineffective), plus the continuing attraction of racialist thinking under Sounded good and vibed with their politics, with very little reality-testing.Īdd the "triumph of the therapeutic" and of self-esteem, plus corporateĬoncerns to ward off liability by claiming to do something (however
People on the fringes of psychology felt entitled to make stuff up because it To oversimplifyĪnd exaggerate: the late 1960s/early 1970s were a weird time, when plenty of Where they did, and how they survived that initial context. Things like diversity training came from, and why they both emerged when and The tools of a serious historian who is trying to excavate where This is, obviously (?), a work of cultural criticism, but it's done with Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution Lasch-Quinn, Race Experts: How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Where much more is known about society and politics from written
So that I am expected to regard all North-Halfers as some kind of kin.) ItĪlso, I think, betrays a failure to check this sort of inference against cases Peculiarities it does not divide duplex residents into two endogamous groups, Used to part-own a house that had been built for one large family around 1900,Īnd later split with a wall down the middle. This sort of thing just shows a failure of imagination. Have politically dominated another because the latter kept making pots Or, again, there are assertions that a one community couldn't "moieties" can be inferred from the construction of a wall dividing a building Inequality as inequitable, which is his right but not something to be justĭoes things like assert that a division of such-and-such a community into Qualitative judgment) when he should write "inequality" (a descriptive and OnĪ different plane, Kantner persistently writes "inequity" (an evaluative, He explains "inference", but not "dendrochronology" or "palynological". Subject, and can handle the lack of a definite article in the title, this is a Which he must know are far more conjectural than he makes themįor the archaeological course. Thing of making very confident-sounding assertions about social organization The writing is mostly smooth and expositoryįascinating-to-me details from it. § John Kantner, Ancient Puebloan Southwest This is a well-written, semi-popular account of the archaeology of theĪmerican Southwest, focusing on the period from the rise of Chaco Canyon to theĮarly years of Spanish rule. Said that the long, long delayed third volume will finally happen. I last read these in 1999 I re-read them because Shaw, but she is her own, vivid and plausible, person. Sula and even (when it comes to learning to lie and Strictly speaking, they are fantasy, even "urbanįantasy", but very much in the manner of well-thought-through science fiction.Īs a character, Aiah has something in common with They're some of the best stuff Williams has ever done, Metered, and our heroine longs to smash it all. Machinations in a world-spanning city, where the geomantic forces generated byĬovering the planet in concrete, metal and plastic are carefully harvested and Walter Jon Williams, Metropolitan and City on Fire These are two novels Williams wrote in the '90s about intrigue and On the archaeology of the Southwest, the pre-history of diversity training, or Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2022Ĭonservation notice: I have no taste, and no qualifications to opine
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