> My own private Alexandria

WORKS ACTIVISTS SHOULD LISTEN TO
Soul power by Andrew Kopkind (1967)
00:28:35 mp3 / no problems except the war / ISBN 1859849024
KEYWORDS: History, the 60’s, history of new left, Black power, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Rap Brown, SNCC, Shakespeare, riots, Democrats all useless.

The moral equivalent of war by William James (1906)
00:38:46 mp3 / no problem reading, only problem is with the war
TEXT ONLINE AT: http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/moral.html
KEYWORDS: History, critique of war, war culture as discipline, need for boundaries, Pacifism must become militant in order to stop wars, what are we fighting for.

Refugees of the new left by Andrew Kopkind (1973)
00:34:52 mp3 / No problems except the war / ISBN 1859849024
KEYWORDS: History, new left, Rennie Davis, Sally Kempton, New age spirituality as a form of resistance against hopelessness in the collapse and defeat of the new left, religious and cultist organizing, politics as extinct language.

New York Times obituaries by Franco Moretti (2000)
00:10:53 mp3 / No problem, some chuckling / ISSN 0028 6060
KEYWORDS: Cultural criticism, daily sense of history, New York Times as the most overrated newspaper on Earth, truth of our age in obituaries, institutions as sole grantor or legitimacy, progress as ideology.

Making it old by Adam Phillips (2003)
00:07:00 mp3 / Not hard but not easy / ISBN 0465056806
KEYWORDS: Psychoanalysis, History as memory, path of remembrance is paved with bad intentions.

Letter to Constance Webb by C.L.R. James (1944)
00:05:07 mp3 / No problem except the war / ISBN 0631184953
KEYWORDS: Love letter, history, revolution and modern poetry, Hume to Marx, Constance Webb, T.S. Eliot, How to woo a woman using Trotsky, love from very very far.

What is a myth by Karen Armstrong (2005)
00:14:47 mp3 / No problem except the war / ISBN 184195716X
KEYWORDS: History, myth as another form of knowledge, myth is not reason.

Caliban's Masque: a history of wild men in Colonial America by Peter Lamborn Wilson (1995)
00:49:54 mp3 / Mispronounced English / ISBN 0936756926
KEYWORDS: History, Colonial American cults and drop out culture, Roanoke, Ann Hutchinson, masons, Puritans those bastards, Cromwell, Indians, tri-racial groups, Quakers, Leveler, Diggers, Rhode Island, Maypole.

Happiness in slavery by Jean Paulhan (1954)
00:30:30 mp3 / Mispronounced French / ISBN 0345301110
KEYWORDS: History, Philosophy, Barbados, slave rebellion, Story of O, Pauline Reage, freedom, love letter, scared of freedom, freedom as necessity, decency, absolute decency.

Imaginative excesses by Theodor Adorno (1964)
00:08:40 mp3 / Mispronounced French, German / ISSN 0028 6060
KEYWORDS: Philosophy, plea, the need to work with and in extremes, intellectuals and workers, the time is passing, Minima Moralia.