books – John B Ledger

The long dark night of the political soul.

In the 2009 era-defining book Capitalist Realism, the writer Mark Fisher defined ‘reflexive impotence’ as state beyond that of apathy and cynicism; a reflex of impotence to the state of the world, societal affairs – the very things changing and affecting our everyday lives. The belief that any possibility of changing anything has already beenContinue reading “The long dark night of the political soul.”

List three books that have had an impact on you. Why? Three books that have had an impact on me. 1. FEED – M.T Anderson. For me, this partly satirical novel from our near-past (2002) painted one of the most prophetic visions of what would come to be. FEED’s target audience was a teenage/young adultContinue reading