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Noel B @NoelBWrites2/1/2023, 12:44 AM

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Noel B @NoelBWrites1/31/2023, 10:06 PM

about to listen to a China Miéville talk and why does every promotional image featuring this man look like an MMA fight announcement lmao

#china mieville #haymarket books #books #writers #communist manifesto #The Cohost Global Feed

Noel B @NoelBWrites2/1/2023, 12:44 AM

highlights:

In an extremely relatable fashion, Miéville explains he was so irritated at either bad faith or just plain bad critiques of the manifesto that he decided to do it himself
While my dude is explaining he "doesn't get his knickers in a twist" about the fine grain semantic distinctions between socialism, communism and etc, there is a fight in the chat about the fine grain semantic distinctions between socialism, communism and etc...
One thing that makes his promotional pictures so funny is that yes, he looks like he's about to throw down, but he's so soft spoken and does not shy away from earnestly caring about others: a lot of communism/socialism is about love and yearning for something better for people. "To be a socialist is to yearn"
On why he writes nonfiction sometimes: "It's distracting to live in a shithole world. I would like to write silly books about monsters and try poetry and all that, BUT"
hate is good, actually: "who would you be not to hate this hateful system?"

Also, ending on an idealistic high note, when asked about the practicalities of how realistic he thinks part of the manifesto are:

none of this is realistic and all of it is necessary

#The Cohost Global Feed #The Cohost Global Feed (Marxist-Leninist)#The Cohost Global Feed (Anarchist)#china mieville #books #the communist manifesto #haymarket books

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rockall @rockall1/31/2023, 10:35 PM

extremely funny combo he's rocking there. Writing fun books about magical realism and how we relate to cities and the weirdness of language while being a rock-solid communist and looking like he spends most friday nights around 3am scrapping with strangers by the taxi rank

Noel B @NoelBWrites1/31/2023, 11:45 PM

Look, my first encounter with Miéville was Perdido Street Station, which introduces a race of people in which the females have a giant beetle head (note: not the head of a beetle, but like, an entire giant beetle instead of a head) that make hard resin out of their head-butts (and make art from it) and the males are nonsentient straight up beetles.... and then the book gets weirder

I didn't know what I expected him to look like but the first time I saw a picture of him I thought I had the wrong China Miéville somehow

(also Perdido Street Station is fun as hell and his writing in general is delightul)

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