A reading playlist after Arka Kinari
Every full moon, I share narrative resources foraged for you and me to use towards possibility. First: a 9-book reading mixtape assembled after encountering a ship of artists sailing for / around Earth.
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The Full Moon Forage is a 'mixtape' of favoured finds from my time travels, each curated to a specific theme or context. In this series, encounter my attention highlights: narrative resources I've gathered for you and me to take in, move to, and use towards possibility as we wish. Looking for synthesis instead? Here are 5 of my favourites.
On the first full moon of the year I was with friends old and new, watching a performance by artists Nova and Filastine of the cultural sailing ship Arka Kinari. I foraged this reading playlist for anyone who also found their work inspiring, energising, and urgent.
A reading playlist after Arka Kinari, 2026
- Harsha Walia - Border & Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (2021) | Nova, Filastine, and their crew struggled with borders imposed on sea on land. This book from 2021 explains many geographies of migration and is still so relevant today.
- Andreas Malm - The Destruction of Palestine Is The Destruction of the Earth (2024) | More like an essay than a book. Has one of the most interesting ship stories I have ever read, and ties it back to the climate emergency.
- Ajay Singh Chaudhary - The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World (2024) | A passionate book about how drained our planet and people are. Offers a mythology of The Exhausted along The Extractive Circuit in The Long Now that I find practical and useful
- Vijay Prashad - Struggle Makes Us Human (2022) | What was meant to be an interview became a whole book
- Dean Spade - Love In A F*cked-Up World (2025) | it's about LOVE let's GO what else is there
- Vincent Bevins - The Jakarta Method (2020) | What happened in Indonesia (and Brazil) in the 1960s? Why does it matter today?
- Ailton Krenak translated by Anthony Doyle - Ideas to Postpone the End of the World (2020) | 3 essays from an Indigenous leader in Brazil about earth and telling stories
- Ruha Benjamin - Imagination: A Manifesto (2024) | because our imaginations are under attack too! We need ART and PLAY
- Jamaica Kincaid - A Small Place (1988) | cathartic rage from a 'tourist island'
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