(((Lotta Naomi Klein.)))
http://roychristopher.com/summer-reading-list-2008
Link: Summer Reading List, 2008 | Roy Christopher.
Dmitry Orlov Reinventing Collapse (New Society): Russian engineer and peak oil theorist argues that the US is about to experience a complete economic collapse like the USSR in the 1990s, with hyperinflation, etc. He recommends learning to grow food and stockpiling items like razors and condoms for the black market. (...)
Why the sudden rush of apocalypse theorization in the past year? Does humanity, or better yet science, know something big is going to happen soon? Is this in reaction to the lightning fast environmental changes we’re currently experiencing throughout the world? Or is it simply because humanity has always been obsessed with our own destruction? I’m thinking it might be all of these reasons, plus ten to twenty more that I’m not thinking about because of the glass of wine I just drank. But I do know this: if you’re looking to make money, get into the budding world of apocalypse science. Like now, before the world ends....
Fans of his previous novels, the cult favorites The Skin Palace, Box Nine and Wireless, will be glad to hear that The Resurrectionist is just as demented and deeply enjoyable.” Meanwhile “The Minneapolis Star-Tribune” claims that: “It blends the out-there mysticism of H.P. Lovecraft, the dark corridors and femme fatales of Dashiell Hammett, and the pulpy, lurid qualities of ’50s comic books.”
I read this book two months ago and find every morning that I am sipping a coffee and staring at its spine with something close to awe...
Brynjar Lia Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of Al Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus’ab Al-Suri (Columbia University Press): A masterful study by a Norwegian research professor of jihadist philosophe Abu Mus’ab al-Suri and his tactics for recruitment, radicalisation, the activation of decentralised networks and the role of metapolitical philosophy in effective psychological warfare. Lia succeeds in using open source intelligence to reinscribe our understanding of Al Qaeda and to expand the scope beyond Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Worth comparing with recent studies by Marc Sageman, Lawrence Wright and Peter Bergen, and with the 36 Strategies of deception stratagems compiled during China’s Warring States Era (403-221 BC).... (((Forward, readers, into the Peak Oil Crowleyan Steampunk Warring States Era.)))
