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TalkDeath’s next book club read will be “From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire” by Sarah Jaffe ⁠ 🔥We are joyed to share that the generous folks at AK Press are very kindly offering our book club members a 30% discount if they order their copy through AK Press 🔥⁠ ⁠ “Our era is one of significant and substantial loss, yet we barely have time to acknowledge it. The losses range from the personal grief of a single COVID death to the planetary disaster wrought by climate change. We are in an age of unraveling hopes […]

Join us to discuss Achille Mbembe's Necropolitics with each other via Zoom on Saturday, December 13th at 2pm ET/ 1pm CT/ 12pm MT/ 11am PT Join TalkDeath's Book Club as we discuss Achille Mbembe's Necropolitics. “In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror as well as by a resurgence of racist, fascist, and nationalist forces determined to exclude and kill. He outlines how democracy has begun to embrace its dark side---what he calls its 'nocturnal body'---which is […]