![]() Yet, in the tradition of Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch, Traverso also instructs us on how the experience of loss can simultaneously generate heretofore untapped repositories of social hope. With Left-Wing Melancholia, Enzo Traverso provides us with a timely and learned meditation on the politics of grief, mourning, and historical loss. Richard Wolin, author of Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption: Taking inspiration from heterodox critical responses to the darkness enveloping Europe in 1940, Traverso seeks to uncover trace elements of a new utopian imaginary, as a leap without guarantees, a melancholy wager. ![]() The overarching trajectory of struggles oriented toward an emancipatory future that characterized and motivated movements in the past two centuries has been fundamentally broken, resulting in a profound melancholia. In this wide-ranging, conceptually rich, nuanced and thoughtful meditation, Enzo Traverso takes stock of the current historical moment as marking a fundamental historical and cultural crisis for the Left. ![]()
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![]() ![]() June 27 Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk (Ute Mountain Ute) Victor Stoner Award, Arizona Archaeological & Historical Society Īuthor, From Saigon to Pleiku: A Counterintelligence Agent in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, 1962-1963 Recipient, Emil Haury Award, Western National Parks Association Learning From Obsidian: Mesoamerican Connections to Pre-Hispanic SW & Coronado’s Mexican Indian Allies Author of several journal articles and talks related to the use of obsidian in the US Southwest and Mexican Northwest which address research questions related to long-distance trade, social interaction, and indigenous lithic technology. Humorist, Comedian and Cartoon Artist, Without Reservations, Santa Fe New Mexican Īuthor, Pueblo Etiquette for Tourists: A book about survival Without Reservations: The Cartoons of Ricardo Cate’Īrchaeologist and Cultural Resource Manager, Los Alamos at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). ![]() NOTE: Held at Santa Fe Woman’s Club – 1616 Old Pecos Trail ![]() June 6 Ricardo Cate’ (Santo Domingo Pueblo) A PUBLIC PROGRAM GRACIOUSLY ASSISTED BY HOTEL SANTA FE, A PICURIS PUEBLO ENTERPRISE ![]() ![]() Rostron witnessed fights in the rigging, and was once punched by an angry seaman hard enough to send him staggering back thirty feet, but the seaman lost when Rostron got serious with his fists.Īfter a few years, Rostron reluctantly went to work for Cunard. Rostron had to face an impromptu court of inquiry from the group and had to threaten them right back to save himself. ![]() On another voyage, there had been a miscalculation in ordering food, and all the author had to eat for weeks were loaves made of cracked wheat, brick-hard once they cooled.Īnother time, as Roston's ship was sailing around a harbor with a party of drunken ships' captains on board, and one of them nearly drove the vessel aground, only being stopped when Rostron dropped anchor. Twice he fell, once from the rigging and another down a hatch, landing on his back both times, but he managed to avoid permanent injury. ![]() Rostron says his first voyage was three months of horror, fighting ice-hardened sails in storms while soaked with rain, snow, or sleet until his fingernails were torn off and his hands were left raw and bleeding. His memoir is filled with plenty of good anecdotes from his career, which started in 1887 when the author was a cadet on a clipper. ![]() Home From The Sea by Arthur Rostron is a book every sailing buff should know. ![]() ![]() Varon conveys the intense passions of the era-the heat of moral purpose, the depth of Utopian longing, the sense of danger and despair, and the exhilaration over temporary triumphs. Based on a wealth of primary material, ranging from interviews to FBI reports, this book reconstructs the motivation and ideology of violent organizations active during the 1960s and 1970s. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this first comprehensive comparison of left-wing violence in the United States and West Germany, Jeremy Varon focuses on America's Weather Underground and Germany's Red Army Faction to consider how and why young, middle-class radicals in prosperous democratic societies turned to armed struggle in efforts to overthrow their states. ![]() ![]() ![]() But mighty Ladon 9 flowed not yet, nor Erymanthus, 9 clearest of rivers waterless was all Arcadia yet was it anon to be called well-watered. There when thy mother had laid thee down from her mighty lap, straightway she sought a stream of water, wherewith she might purge her of the soilure of birth and wash thy body therein. Thence is the place holy, and no fourfooted thing that hath need of Eileithyia 7 nor any woman approacheth thereto, but the Apidanians 8 call it the primeval childbed of Rheia. ![]() In Parrhasia 6 it was that Rheia bare thee, where was a hill sheltered with thickest brush. O Zeus, some say that thou wert born on the hills of Ida 3 others, O Zeus, say in Arcadia did these or those, O Father lie? “Cretans are ever liars.” 4 Yea, a tomb, 5 O Lord, for thee the Cretans builded but thou didst not die, for thou art for ever. How shall we sing of him – as lord of Dicte 1 or of Lycaeum? 2 My soul is all in doubt, since debated is his birth. At libations to Zeus what else should rather be sung than the god himself, mighty for ever, king for evermore, router of the Pelagonians, dealer of justice to the sons of Heaven? ![]() ![]() ![]() “I wanted to be the Black Stephen King or the Black Clive Barker.” But after dropping out of college to care for his ailing mom and spending a decade working odd jobs while writing on the side, he found traction in crime fiction, where his high-octane storytelling, realistic characters and complex take of Black masculinity have struck a chord with a growing number of fans. “At 10 years old, I would read one of King’s novels and for the next two weeks would sleep with a silver butter knife under my pillow because I was terrified of vampires,” Cosby said with a laugh.Įncouraged by his mother to rewrite books whose endings he didn’t like, Cosby began with horror. His uncle introduced him to Travis McGhee and Mike Hammer, and an aunt passed along her Stephen King. ![]() Reading was entertainment for Shawn’s family, so he read what they did - his grandmother’s True Story magazines, his mother’s Harlequin romances. “ Blacktop Wasteland,” out this week, is his second crime novel set in the rural South. “I grew up in the poorest part of Virginia, so poor, we didn’t have indoor plumbing until I was 15 or 16 years old,” the 46-year old Cosby, who goes by Shawn, began when we spoke recently. Cosby, one of the most exciting crime novelists I’ve read this year, what inspired him to become a writer, his natural storytelling ability quickly becomes apparent. ![]() ![]() He was eight years over the age limit for pilots in such squadrons, so he petitioned relentlessly for exemption until it was finally granted by General Dwight Eisenhower. In April of 1943, shortly after the book came out, 43-year-old Saint-Exupéry shoved his Little Prince manuscripts and drawings in a brown paper bag, handing it to his friend Silvia Hamilton - “I’d like to give you something splendid,” he told her, “but this is all I have.” - and departed for Algiers as a military pilot with the Free French Air Force. ![]() But what few realize is that Saint-Exupéry, a commercial pilot who never mastered English and penned his masterwork in French, wrote The Little Prince ( public library) not in Paris but in New York City and Long Island, where he arrived in 1940 after the Nazi invasion of France. Although Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (June 29, 1900–July 31, 1944) only wrote one children’s book in his lifetime, it is among the most beloved of all time, one of those rare gems with most timeless philosophy for grown-ups. ![]() ![]() ![]() Braithwhite - heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus's ancestors - they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours. ![]() When his father Montrose goes missing, 22-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George - publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide - and his childhood friend Letitia. ![]() "The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kant argued that our first steps toward knowledge are experiential however, rationalism also brings something to the table. He set about finding a compromise between the two, and he set the philosophical world afire in so doing. In Kant’s day, there were two schools of thought: knowledge comes from human reason (rationalism), or knowledge comes from human experience (empiricism). ![]() For example, Kant asked how we know things are real (that is, where does knowledge come from?). Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) was a highly influential German philosopher whose works centered mostly on the workings of the mind in regard to things like reason, aesthetics, and the nature of reality. ![]() ![]() This is highly unusual, because Simon is a vampire. Simon is injured, so Jace pulls him through the portal to Alicante. Simon argues and, before a decision can be made, Forsaken warriors attack the family. Unbeknownst to Clary, her brother Jace does not want her to go and is making plans to stop her.Īs the Lightwood family and Jace make preparations to go to Alicante, Jace tries to convince Clary’s friend Simon to stop her from going. Clary has been told by Madeleine, a friend of her mother’s, that there is a magician named Fell there that has the spell that can reverse the coma Clary’s mother put herself into when Valentine showed up at their apartment. City of Glass is a satisfying conclusion to the battle between evil and good that are personified in the characters of Valentine, Clary, and Jace.Ĭlary is planning to travel to Idris, the City of Glass that is the capital of the Shadowhunter world, Alicante. ![]() ![]() Clary and Jace find themselves forced to face Valentine in a final battle that will leave one, or all of them, dead. During their visit, the city, which had been thought impenetrable by demons, is attacked by a group of demons led by Clary’s father Valentine. Also in the city are Clary’s friends, the Lightwoods, and her brother Jace. ![]() In this novel, Clary travels to the City of Glass to find a magician who is said to have a cure for her mother’s self-induced coma. City of Glass is the third novel in the Mortal Instruments Series by Cassandra Clare. ![]() |