My Dots for Thursday, April 12, 2007

A review of William T. Vollmann’s new book, “Poor People,” in The Stranger. It points to a couple of recent book on the same subject which may be better.

Quoted: Poor People’s ruling question—”Why are you poor?”—can only produce an impoverished (inadequate) form of knowledge, an understanding that is insufficient for praxis, for action. In short, the book is all talk