LINES OF THE DAY

". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past -- or more accurately, pastness -- is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past." p. 15

". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Decade's Best Unread Books

One of the season's more annoying features are the endless Best Of Lists. This season's annoyance factor in this regard has reached even greater intensity due to someone's not bright idea that they should inflict the addtional Best Of Lists of the Best of the Decade, called in some quarters by the really annoying term, 'the Naughties.' If there ever were 10 years that lacked naughtiness, it has been the decade of the criminalgangofcronies and the additional obama year of having changed the name and the face but kept everything else the same.


So the UK Guardian did a bit of a better thing by creating a list of the 'Decade's Best Unread Books.'

I'm thinking of books I might put on that list myself.  You?
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