Finished reading: Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth 📚
I had a hard time getting into this one at first, perhaps because the material seemed so familiar already. But things started locking into place after a while and I have to say: Kingsnorth is good, actually! He provokes me in the ways that I need to be provoked, even if his outlook is a little too pessimistic at times. There’s an impressively eclectic set of sources flowing into this trenchant critique of the Machine. As always with these books, I’m more than a little unclear on what it might look like to be a “reactionary radical” and a “cooked barbarian.” But, alas, that’s always the rub with these things. Last thing: the cover is so aesthetically pleasing to me. I don’t recall the last book that I was so predisposed to like because of the cover design and feel.