The One-Straw Revolution
by Masanobu Fukuoka | 
First You Have to Row a Little Boat
by Richard Bode | 
Understanding Media
by Marshall McLuhan | 
A Rulebook for Arguments
by Anthony Weston | 
The Book of Calamities
by Peter Trachtenberg |
A Secret History of Consciousness
by Gary Lachman | 
Coincidance
by Robert Anton Wilson |
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
by Edward Abbey | 
In Bluebeard's Castle
by George Steiner | 
Pluralism
by William Connolly | 
On Caring
by Milton Mayeroff | 
Time and the Soul
by Jacob Needleman | 
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture
by Roger Scruton | 
On the Unhappiness of Being Greek
by Nikos Dimou |
Maxims for Revolutionists
by George Bernard Shaw |
Thinking of Answers
by A. C. Grayling | 
Expect the Unexpected
by Roger Von Oech | 
Paris, Capital of Modernity
by David Harvey | 
Between the Monster and the Saint
by Richard Holloway | 
Bertrand Russell
by Paul Strathern |
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake" - the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead, coming to consciousness - Sharpe illustrates how Black lives are swept up and animated by the afterlives of slavery, and she delineates what survives despite such insistent violence and negation. Initiating and describing a theory and method of reading the metaphors and materiality of "the wake," "the ship," "the hold," and "the weather," Sharpe shows how the sign of the slave ship marks and haunts contemporary Black life in the diaspora and how the specter of the hold produces conditions of containment, regulation, and punishment, but also something in excess of them. In the weather, Sharpe situates anti-Blackness and white supremacy as the total climate that produces premature Black death as normative. Formulating the wake and "wake work" as sites of artistic production, resistance, consciousness, and possibility for living in diaspora, In the Wake offers a way forward.