I was very busy in January and my exertion took its toll. I scaled things back for February. I didn’t pull any all nighters, nor was I working late into the night or waking up at the crack of dawn to finish daily goals. It was a needed break, but I plan to get back on track for March.
Books read:
Rick Perlstein, The Invisible Bridge
Tony Judt, Thinking the Twentieth Century
Tony Judt, Postwar
Richard White, The Republic for Which It Stands: the United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age 1865 to 1896
Mark Blyth, Austerity
Paul Cartledge, Democracy: A Life (started)
Goodstein, Georg Simmel (started)
Buchanan, Frozen Desire (started)
As for drawing and writing: I did begin to redraw my illustration of Orpheus. I mostly wanted to practice lettering. I found a Bauhaus font I liked and used that. I'd like to finish the rest of the drawing in a complementary style. Other than that piece, I mostly did sketching. I did a lot of story boarding and have most of the current book as well some of a possible second book. Of course, getting from storyboards to the finished book is another matter. I've still been following amimetobios course on Money and Literature, including doing the readings for each week (although I'm only up to week 2 for the readings). Lastly, I sent out 4 of 5 copies of Ron Drummond's The Frequency of Liberation as part of a FB game. The fifth copy I will hand deliver. This project took a bit longer than I expected, but I was happy to do it. Hopefully those I sent the book out to receive and enjoy them.
I'm putting together a long reading list in preparation for my essay on Utopia and Economics. In no way do I plan on getting to all of these in March. In fact, my March reading will probably be mostly composed of selections from amimetobios Imagining Money course. I may begin drafting my essay as well.
Utopia and Economics Reading List
Economics
Marx, Capital (v.1)
Freedman, The Incomplete Projects
Georg Simmel, The Philosophy of Money
Goodstein, Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary
Blyth, Austerity
David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years
James Buchanan, Frozen Desire
History
Tim Blanning, Pursuit of Glory
Lichtheim, Europe in the 20C
Michael Howard, The Oxford History of the 20C
Gregory Claeys, The Philosophy of Money
Klosko, The Transformation of American Liberalism
Winkler, The Age of Catastrophe
Politics
Hobbes, Leviathan
Quentin Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (v. 1-2)
Quentin Skinner, Visions of Politics (v. 1-3)
Hirschman, The Passions and the Interests
Klopenberg, Toward Democracy
Kitcher, Science, Truth, and Democracy
Robert Wiebe, Self-Rule
Paul Cartledge, Democracy: A Life
For drawing, I hope to finish at least a few pages the book. I want to bring the storyboarding closer to completion as well as have all the pages sketched out fully in draft form. I'm especially interested in finishing what is a kind of book within the book. I'd like to have more of a schedule for how I work. This is a plan I've considered:
Mornings: Read and Write (about 1-2 hours a day)
Evenings: Draw (at least 15 minutes if with Lily, at least 1 hour if not)
Final note: I just started reading Scott McCloud's graphic novel Understanding Comics. Quite good. Worth a mention.
