Currently I’m reading Nina Burton’s ‘Livets tunna väggar’ which translate to something like Walls of Life. It’s a book by a Swedish writer who inherits her mother’s summer house. When she wants to renovate it, she finds all sort of life around and in the house. She uses said life to teach you something about the intellect of various insects and animals, which goes deeper than humans normally think.
It’s a very interesting book that makes me think about non-human life even more. Creatures that are thousands of times smaller than we are have such complex societal structures. Humans have overcommodified animal life for centuries now, seeing them as property and commodities instead of complex and intelligent life forms.
What are you reading?
Too many things at once! Right now:
- The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
- Slavery and Social Death by Orlando Patterson
- Valences of the Dialectic by Fredric Jameson
- Settlers by J. Sakai
- The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen
- Light in Gaza edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, and Mike Merryman-Lotze (free at the publisher’s website, linked)
Plus a couple works of fiction, one sort of autobiographical piece, and some computer programming textbooks.
