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Cameron's Book Reviews: Early 2021
Cameron's Book Reviews: Early 2021

I tend to set my reading goal a lot lower than Edgar, for a variety of reasons. One of them is the fact that I think aiming to read a large number of books over the course of a year means that you engage less deeply with them. Or, at least, when I do that, that’s how it works for me. Still, I have read a few extremely good books this year.

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Book reviewsCameron SummersN.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, Colin Woodard, Non-Places, Marc Augé, Sisyphean, Dempow Torishima, The War on Everyone, Robert Evans, Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir, The Locked Tomb trilogy, Postcapitalist Desire, Mark Fisher, Matt Colquhoun, Pet, Akwaeke Emezi, Agency, William Gibson, An Indigenous People's History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, The Medieval Vision: Essays in History and Perception, Carolly Erickson, The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein, The Utopia of Rules, David Graeber, Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha LeeComment
The Spectre of a World that Could Be Free: On Acid Communism (Fisher's Ghosts, part 6)
The Spectre of a World that Could Be Free: On Acid Communism (Fisher's Ghosts, part 6)

The book that Mark Fisher was working on at the time of his death was to be entitled Acid Communism. Its introduction is available in the K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher. There has been a lot of speculation about this subject since his passing, especially in conjunction with the last course that Fisher was going to teach on “Post-Capitalist Desire." The general theory is that Acid Communism was his name for a future political project, marrying the psychedelia of the 1960s to Marxist thinking,

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Analysis, Commentary, Fisher's Ghosts, Written by: CameronCameron SummersAcid Communism, Mark Fisher, The Hauntological, The Wondrous, The Apostatic, William Basinski, The Disintegration Loops, Stuart Mills, Daoism, Matt Colquhoun, The Temptations, Psychedelic Shack, psychedelia, Disco Elysium, Studio ZA/UM, Waypoint Radio, Sun Ra, Space is the Place, Kodwo Eshun, Weird Studies, Gnosticism, A Tribe Called Red, John Trudell, Animism, Communism, Popular ModernismComment