seem to be finding a lot of texts dealing with terrorism/anarchism/revolutionary movements recently. some quite interesting.
books:
China Mieville's Iron Council. Read the first two books, Perdido Street Station and The Scar, first.
here, the heroes are terrorist/revolutionaries. socialist mythology, the paris commune. the image of the perpetual train, a group of criminal chain gang railway workers who kill their masters/guards and lay endless tracks across the untracked wastelands, taking the rails from behind to lay down in front, is one that will stay with me. seminar discussing the book including comments from the author, here.
films:
Syriana was great. Someone said to me: 'I prefer my fantasies to have wizards in pointy hats.' But of course I disagree. All texts are fiction. All sense is fantasy. And the things that this movie said spoke to me as true as any other voice I've heard recently. Munich, Narnia, Violence, Koreda, Bergman, Capote, Vendetta, Night Watch, Immortel.
'Arabs are very family oriented, as a people. Is that racist?'
'Sure.'
'It is?'
'A little. Well no, I guess if what you're saying is positive...'
The Information Revolution, they used to call it. Who knows what is going on anymore? The answer to that question is: no one at all. And further questions: did anyone, ever? Information, not Knowledge. A human brain is only so big.
Someone else was writing a letter to her 20-year old daughter on her coming-of-age. Struggling for sage advice. 'Know thyself.' 'Wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.' 'Happiness is when what we think, what we say, and what we do are in harmony.'
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