by Raymond Williams Critique of Dialectical Reason, by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Alan Sheridan-Smith (NLB) This work is a landmark in modern social thought. First published in French in 1960, its translation into English — a formidable task, in the intrinsic difficulties of the text, and in great length; the present volume runs to more than eight hundred pages — is an important reminder of the ways in which Sartre offers to change the nature of a central kind of inquiry. Sartre the post...

As you might guess, I've been mostly plugged into the tenant stuff, and I'm still working out my sense of what we've seen over the recent period. Clearly, at the beginning, we observed a recently unprecedented growth in tenants movement activity, self-organization, and organizational growth (my group, TANC, grew by like 5x in membership). The rent strikes appear not to have gotten as big as people have expected, despite the common ~30% not paying rent monthly number people throw around (it's muc...

This morning I replied to this tweet— This is the kind of quantity that might turn into quality https://t.co/E2asoioEEx— blue lives splatter 📉 (@postcyborg) July 2, 2020 —which was itself quoted this tweet— I don't know who needs to hear this, but 20,000,000 Americans are at risk of being evicted by September 30.— Robert Reich (@RBReich) July 1, 2020 —to which I replied— Just glancing at the cited article, but I think this # is misleading. They define "at risk" based on unemployment wit...