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Richard Greeman, the power behind the Victor Serge Society and translator of many of Serge's works, including Unforgiving Years, is presently on a speaking tour of Great Britain, discussing "Capitalist and Ecological Collapse: An Eco-socialist Solution." He says,

"There can be no future without a dream, no progress without the hope of Utopia. So let us then begin now by trying to imagine a technically feasible, ecologically sustainable post-capitalist future and visualizing historically possible roads leading to it. The ‘New Archimedes’ hypothesis  – based on theories of cybernetics, chaos, emergence and Castoriadis’ Content of Socialism – connects a historically proven lever of worker solidarity and a 21st Century philosophical fulcrum (planetary consciousness) and a global electronicplace to stand  (the Internet) where the billions can unite in solidarity in order to lift the earth before it succumbs to capitalist ecocide.”

to contact Richard Greeman about details of the the tour, email "eurojournalists at lapost dot net" and a preview of his book, Dangerous Shortcuts and Vegetarian Sharks can be found here. 

Details of the tour follow.

LONDON

Mon 10 Nov: Capitalist and Ecological Collapse: An Ecosocialist Solution” at 7.30 pm in the upstairs meeting room at “The Goose on the Green” pub in Catford. Sponsored by Alliance for Green Socialism

Fri. 21 Nov: “Capitalist and Ecological Collapse: An Ecosocialist Solution” 7.30pm at the Lucas Arms, Kings Cross, sponsored by Alliance Green Socialism

LIVERPOOL

Wed 12 Nov: “Be Utopian, Demand the Realistic” 7:30 pm at the CASA Bistro Bar on Hope Street opposite Philharmonic Pub

GLASGOW: For information update contact [email protected]

EDINBURUGH 

Sun. Nov. 16: “Victor Serge’s Ecological Vision,” Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh, 7:00 PM

Mon. Nov. 17: ”The Revolutionary KIT: build your own invisible international,” Edinburgh University Chaplaincy, 7:00 PM.

NEWCASTLE                                

Tues. 18 Nov: “Is There Hope   After Capitalism?” (Ecosocialism versus Capitalist Ecocide) at 6:00 pm Tyneside Irish Center, 43-49 Gallowgate.

LONDON

Fri. 21 Nov: “Capitalist and Ecological Collapse: An Ecosocialist Solution” 7.30pm at the Lucas Arms, Kings Cross, sponsored by Alliance Green Socialism

OXFORD

Mon. 24 Nov: “Capitalist and Ecological Collapse: An Ecosocialist Solution”   7:30 pm Committee Room, Wolfson College, Oxford.

Congratulations to McNally Jackson Bookstore, née McNally Robinson, on its name change. Our very own Matt Weiland (take that Paris Review!) will be there discussing his new book and Names on the Land.

Today is also Vladimir Sorokin's birthday. If he were here in NY, no doubt he'd be happy to know that The Queue is printing this very moment—and that it's formatted with all the idiosyncrasies of the 2007 Russian edition of the book.

The 7th of August marks the day between the bombing of Hiroshima and the bombing of Nagasaki. If you miss those mourning days, you can always fast to remember the destruction of the temples in Jerusalem on Tisha b'Av (on August 9th).

Sam Jordison is getting to be our favorite Guardian blogger—if for no more than the simple reason that he writes so thoughtfully and at length about books we've happened to publish. Yesterday he used the occasion of the film adaptation of J.L. Carr's A Month in the Country being shown in London as part of a Booker film series to discuss the book on which it's based. He's nice enough to enumerate the book's virtues:

The story of the narrator's secret love for another man's wife and ongoing struggle to recover from the trauma of being a signaller in the first world war is moving. The rural setting is beguiling with its evocation of a lost world "at the end of the horse age" full of alarmingly plain speaking, but unfailingly generous Yorkshire folk. The writing is lovely too. It's as simple and rich as the countryside it describes ("ditches and roadside deep in grass, poppies, cuckoo pint, trees heavy with leaf, orchards bulging over hedge briars"), but shot through with a mordant wit that ensures the book has an edge to sharpen all that easy bucolic softness. Finally, there's also the added physical appeal of the slim volume itself - at least if you are lucky enough to have the splendid Quince Tree Press edition designed by the author himself.

Apparently the film adaptation doesn't quite do the book justice (full of eye-candy though it may be). We've never been able to see it. For the longest time it wasn't available in the US on VHS or DVD. Anybody know if it is now?

Sam Jordison is getting to be our favorite Guardian blogger???if for no more than the simple reason that he writes so thoughtfully and at length about books we've happened to publish. Yesterday he used the occasion of the film adaptation of J.L. Carr's A Month in the Country being shown in London as part of a Booker film series to discuss the book on which it's based. He's nice enough to enumerate the book's virtues:

The story of the narrator's secret love for another man's wife and ongoing struggle to recover from the trauma of being a signaller in the first world war is moving. The rural setting is beguiling with its evocation of a lost world "at the end of the horse age" full of alarmingly plain speaking, but unfailingly generous Yorkshire folk. The writing is lovely too. It's as simple and rich as the countryside it describes ("ditches and roadside deep in grass, poppies, cuckoo pint, trees heavy with leaf, orchards bulging over hedge briars"), but shot through with a mordant wit that ensures the book has an edge to sharpen all that easy bucolic softness. Finally, there's also the added physical appeal of the slim volume itself - at least if you are lucky enough to have the splendid Quince Tree Press edition designed by the author himself.

Apparently the film adaptation doesn't quite do the book justice (full of eye-candy though it may be). We've never been able to see it. For the longest time it wasn't available in the US on VHS or DVD. Anybody know if it is now?

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