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Political Jouissance by Slavoj Žižek, 2024

When we oppose or disagree with something important, do we ever really do it dispassionately? Isn't setting the world to rights or condemning a political opponent always done with a hint of relish, or at least enthusiasm? This book's challenging essays explore the modes in which that transgressive pleasure of political 'jouissance' operates.

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Rather than delegitimizing or depoliticising, the tacit enjoyment of outrage can in fact facilitate different forms of engagement. The tendency for groups to be bonded by a common enemy, for example, brings with it a protection from censure or persecution, and a way of alleviating guilt. In this collection, the authors seek out jouissance in the battle against patriarchy, in social revolts, in the age of mechanical surveillance, in the necrosociety of neoliberalism, or the proliferation of conspiracy theories.
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Cory Dransfeldt :demi:

📖 Above the Noise (⭐⭐⭐) #Autobiography #Nba #Nonfiction #Sports

From one of the most outspoken and respected NBA athletes comes a groundbreaking and remarkable memoir chronicling a very public struggle with depression, in the hopes that other young men will not suffer alone."As men, and especially Black men, we don’t talk about our mental health enough. We struggle to admit when things aren’t okay, even when it’s obvious to everybody...

coryd.dev/books/9780593581261

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Douglas E. Welch

Five Books: The Best Books On Everything

We ask experts to recommend the five best books in their subject and explain their selection in an interview.

This site has an archive of more than one thousand seven hundred interviews or eight thousand book recommendations. We publish at least two new interviews per week.

welchwrite.com/blog/2025/03/25

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Laura 🇵🇹

“Europe and the Roma: A History of Fascination and Fear”, by Klaus-Michael Bogdal, Penguin, 2023.

“This remarkable book describes a dark side of European history: the rejection of the Roma from their initial arrival in the late Middle Ages to the present day. To Europeans, the Roma appeared to be in complete contradiction with their own culture, because of their mysterious origins, unknown language and way of life.”

The cover of the book “Europe and the Roma: A History of Fascination and Fear”, by Klaus-Michael Bogdal, Penguin, 2023.
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Insect Conservation: A Global Synthesis by Michael J Samways, 2019

Insects do not live in isolation. They interact with the abiotic environment and are major components of the terrestrial and freshwater biotic milieus. They are crucial to so many ecosystem processes and are the warp and weft of all terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems that are not permanently frozen.

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This means that insect conservation is a two-way process: insects as the subjects of conservation, while also they are useful tools for conserving the environment. This book overviews strategic ways forward for insect conservation. It is a general view of what has worked and what has not for the maintenance of insect diversity across the world, as well as what might be the right approaches for the future.
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A Natural History of Insects in 100 Limericks by Richard Jones, 2021

Insects are often overlooked because they are small or ignored because they are deemed trivial, and many are dismissed as nuisance pests. But their numbers and diversity are mind-numbing, and under even a modest hand lens they are beautiful or bizarre. Insects dominate the centre ground of all terrestrial and most aquatic ecosystems.

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They inform us of the conservation value of ancient woodland and chalk downland. They help monitor the purity or pollution levels of ponds, streams and rivers. And they can demonstrate the effects of climate change, acting as warning lights to alert us to the damage that humans are doing to the world. Recent insectageddon headlines are starting to make people sit up and take more notice. What better way to promote an interest in these fascinating creatures than by poetizing them? This cornucopia of discordant nonsense, with some quite frankly dubious rhyming clashes, is offered up so that entomological outreach will at least benefit from their shock value.
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Brian Faucette

36th: Rick Atkinson’s fascinating, thrilling, and exhaustive The British are Coming which charts the American Revolution from 1775 with Lexington to January of 1777. Atkinson weaves the story of America’s early struggles using letters, diaries, and maps. A great read to know more about the Revolution and how brave it was for the colonists to wage war at the time. #books #nonfiction #americanrevolution

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