{"id":4394,"date":"2011-05-29T10:34:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T15:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=4394"},"modified":"2011-05-29T12:26:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T17:26:54","slug":"on-not-going-to-sleep-during-blackouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/05\/29\/on-not-going-to-sleep-during-blackouts\/","title":{"rendered":"On not going to sleep (during blackouts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmcortes.com\/books\/blackout\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2011\/05\/cover.jpg?resize=185%2C246\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An in-law sent me a PDF of  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotheftosleep.com\/\">this rudely hilarious little picture book<\/a> that  would warm the cruel heart (or maybe cruel the warm heart) of every new parent. Turns out the artist, Ricardo Cortes, does great little books like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmcortes.com\/free\/drug-czars.pdf\">Sketches of the Drug Wars<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmcortes.com\/free\/blackout.pdf\">celebration of power blackouts<\/a> pictured above (both links here are PDFs).<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The latter  gives a nicely upbeat human-scale take  on the 2003 blackout, which Jane Bennett analyzed in <em>Vibrant Matter<\/em> (see my comments in the  <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/05\/31\/vibrant-food-energy-matters\/\">blogathon<\/a> for that book, and  Sean Cubitt&#8217;s incisive critique of it <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/05\/31\/vibrant-food-energy-matters\/\">here).<\/a> The picture book&#8217;s one page  that seems off-kilter to me is the one  with the text, &#8220;Radios blasting music and news\/ People dancing in the  street, doing the boogaloo.&#8221; Music, okay, battery-powered&#8230; But news?  Wouldn&#8217;t the stations shut down? Not that that couldn&#8217;t be a good  thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That book-for-new-parents&#8217;  author, Adam Mansbach, also has some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adammansbach.com\/books.html\">good writing<\/a> to his credit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An in-law sent me a PDF of this rudely hilarious little picture book that would warm the cruel heart (or maybe cruel the warm heart) of every new parent. Turns out the artist, Ricardo Cortes, does great little books like Sketches of the Drug Wars and the celebration of power blackouts pictured above (both links [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[691215,689354],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics_postpolitics","category-image_nation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-18S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1211,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/03\/08\/the-horror\/","url_meta":{"origin":4394,"position":0},"title":"the horror&#8230;","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"March 8, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I went to see Lars von Trier's Antichrist a few days ago. 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Anthropologist Ingold has been a prominent\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Philosophy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Philosophy","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/geo_philosophy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10136,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2019\/05\/01\/shadowing-unshadowed\/","url_meta":{"origin":4394,"position":2},"title":"Shadowing unshadowed","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"May 1, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"As agreed to with my publisher (Punctum), the e-book version of Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times is now available for free download (or pay what you can). To celebrate this, I'm sharing a couple of snippets from the book here. 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