Taru Luojola started reading Alkulukujen yksinäisyys by Giordano Paolo (WSOY pokkari)

Kirjailija-kirjantekijä, kielitaiteilija ja -tieteilijä. Kirjakasan ylläpitäjä.
Luen vähän kaikenlaista, kaunoa ja tietoa, ties miten monella eri kielellä. Kirjoitan ennen kaikkea absurdia realismin rajoilla keikkuvaa proosaa.
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In general, the Scandinavian countries did not have the necessary military power and administrative capacity to establish and operate their own colonies. They had to ride the wave of the great colonial powers in order to enjoy the benefits offered by imperialism.
There was no difference, however, between the Scandinavian countries and the great colonial powers regarding their attitude towards colonialism. European colonialism can be seen as a unifieed whole in which large and small countries played different roles. Some managed territories and opened up markets, others provided capital, built infrastructure, or transported goods to and from the colonies. The Scandinavian countries earned large sums by navigating in the wake of the major colonial powers. The Frederiksstaden district of Copenhagen is full of mansions built with the profits made from the trade in slaves and colonial goods.
"Imperialism without colonies"
As a result of the history of colonialism and the structures of imperialist exploitation, an “imperial mode of living” developed in the parasite states. As Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen have explained, people in the Global North are born and socialized into this way of life. Their actions and choices are not just made under conditions of their own choosing but also under conditions inherited from the past. The imperial mode of living is normalized in daily acts of production and consumption, so that its violent character and consequences are kept at a distance from those who benefit from it. It is not only the consumption of cheap consumer goods and food; the infrastructure underlying everyday life, in areas such as transport, electricity, heating, and telecommunications, relies heavily on material flows from abroad. People in the Global North draw on these flows, not just because they consider them to be essential to a good life, but because they are dependent on them.
"More than their chains to lose"
Nuorehko naisnäyttelijä kohtaa vuosien mittaan niin paljon seksuaalista ahdistelua ja väkivallan läsnäoloa ja uhkaa, että lopulta nuppi ei enää kestä sitä, kun vielä oma elämäkin kietoutuu tiukasti yhteen roolisuoritusten kanssa, ja samaan aikaan haluttaisi panna vaikka ketä. Hiukan raskasta lukea paitsi aiheensa myös kerrontatyylinsä vuoksi.
Very entertaining romcom story where two absolutely gorgeous women get to dump their constantly lying douchebag ex on public television, while head-over-heals falling for each other. The book kept me up all night and didn't let me sleep. Another plus: The author invented a conlang for this (Chalonian). Minus: It's not used very much, and probably it's not designed out that well.
Tämä oli vähän erikoinen lukukokemus. Kirja osui silmiin upsalaisessa kirjakaupassa ja suorastaan kutsui minua, joskin paljolti kirjaan liittymättömistä syistä. Rupesin sitten saman tien lukemaan, ja jonkinlainen kirjaan liittymätön nostalgian tunne kannatteli minua sulavasti koko tekstin läpi, vaikka teksti itsessään ei noussut ylivertaiseksi. Mutta sitä ne omenat ja ruotsi varmaan teettävät. Joka tapauksessa, kirja on kerronnallisesti omintakeinen eikä päästä lukijaa helpolla. Tarina kertoo viidestä ystävyksestä, jotka viimeisimmällä aikatasolla lähestyvät eläkeikää, ja itse asiassa jo aika varhaisessa vaiheessa käy ilmi, että yksi näistä viidestä on kuollut. Kaikki pyörii omenoiden ja etenkin varttamalla tapahtuvan lisääntymisen ympärillä. Melkein pitäisi lukea uudestaan, että ymmärtäisi, mitä tässä tapahtui.
This is a very cut-and-dry report on the PAIGC's anti-colonial revolutionary war. It's broken into three main parts: first, background on the colony; the centerpiece, reporting on a journey across the nation-to-be with the party's leaders, who are interviewed and quoted at length; lastly, some comparative analysis with other revolutionary movements in Africa and latin amerika.
The book is fairly narrowly focused on practical how-a-revolution-gets-made questions, and it provides useful, clear answers to those questions. It's not really written to be a compelling story, though if you care about the Guinean revolution you'll likely find interesting stories in here anyway. The author's analysis is straightforward, and like others who actually spent time with the guerrillas he correctly observed that they were comeptent to a much greater degree than many of their contemporaries.
If you had to look up the acronym PAIGC, I might not recommend starting this book until …
This is a very cut-and-dry report on the PAIGC's anti-colonial revolutionary war. It's broken into three main parts: first, background on the colony; the centerpiece, reporting on a journey across the nation-to-be with the party's leaders, who are interviewed and quoted at length; lastly, some comparative analysis with other revolutionary movements in Africa and latin amerika.
The book is fairly narrowly focused on practical how-a-revolution-gets-made questions, and it provides useful, clear answers to those questions. It's not really written to be a compelling story, though if you care about the Guinean revolution you'll likely find interesting stories in here anyway. The author's analysis is straightforward, and like others who actually spent time with the guerrillas he correctly observed that they were comeptent to a much greater degree than many of their contemporaries.
If you had to look up the acronym PAIGC, I might not recommend starting this book until the general story of 20th-century anticolonialism in Africa is more familiar to you. You'd probably get a lot more out of it that way.
Tää on vissiin joku hyvinkin tunnettu tyyppi Ranskassa, tehnyt paljon bisnestä ja ollut urheilussa ja politiikassa mukana (semmonen Kummola siis), mutta en ollut kuullut mitään ennen kuin aloin lukea tätä kirjaa. Ei tämä kyllä kovin kiinnostava kirja ollut, pointti tuntui puuttuvan kokonaan. Pitäisi varmaan jatkossa vähän tarkemmin miettiä, mitä vieraskielisiä kirjoja vaihtohyllyistä ottaa, kun monet on tämän tapaan ihan turhia.