Status Updates From Wild Fictions: Essays on Li...

'what is clear now is that the mere achievement of hegemony is not enough to set the anglo-american powers at rest: their mission is to remake every element of the world in their own image. and since no copy can ever completely replicate the original, it means that the task they have set themselves approximates the mathematical notion of an infinite regress' cannot fit the whole quote or my thoughts here. alas

a lot of the essays in the 'conversations' section seem to be rather dependent on the context of the works that they discuss. which makes sense, considering the intro to the section stated that some of its essays were essentially book reviews, and another was a 30 pages email chain about a book. it all remains very well-written and there are some great ideas within them, but without context it is a bit dry

wasnt expecting this book to feature 120 pages of essays on war/military history, topics i have never had much interest in courtesy of how history was taught at my school. they never once told us about the millions of indian soldiers recruited to fight on behalf of england in wwi/ii, or anything that happened in asia at the time aside from hiroshima. difficult reading but a valuable perspective. much to think about

first section of this book is dedicated to climate change and the environment. was at a public engagement event for work today and an older bloke came in to say he was quite fascinated by our offshore wind projects, and that he firmly believed in climate change now because of the weather we've had recently. im glad people are starting to take it seriously but i wish it hadn't taken this extreme heat and drought