I've never encountered a book that took me longer to read on a per page basis than The Aesthetics of Resistance vol. 1, but I've finally finished it. On to vol. 2

this specific bit changed how I think about politics, protest, literature, and pretty much everything. I paraphrase it in every course I teach and everything I write

cannot put this novel, about a hedge fund manager who finds a love of the sea and quits his hedge fund to invest in freight shipping BY a hedge fund manager who left that job to invest in freight shipping, down for even a second

vol 2 is about how knowing about and acting on the knowledge of climate change is futile in an economy that doesn't change & about how grad school steals years from you

should have been grading but instead I spent 3 hours learning what linear regression is and how to do it in python