blackgirl on mars: notes on a life in copenhagen (or how my alienation brings me closer to people).

“I somewhere am perhaps deeply unmercantile, and it is market forces as they are now called who at the moment are ruling - both materially and socially, and politically - the planet. Therefore if one can take decisions and do things which have nothing to do with the values behind those market forces, then so much the better.” John Berger

I'm so excited right now. There have been a few books that definitely galvanized paradigm shifts in my life. One of them, appropriately, would be Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , the others would be Mary Daly's Pure Lust , Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and lastly John Berger's Ways of Seeing. This is by no means a complete list of books that rocked my world, but it is pretty representative of those thoughts that have contributed to my present state-of-mind and consciousness (One reason I'm really happy I went to Eugene Lang College!) When I read Berger's Ways of Seeing , I exhaled in a Terri McMillan kind of way. Anyway, I won't ruin it for you: Read the book yourself. Or, check out this video gem I discovered on The Elegant Variation , one of my favorite blogs to check out, cause it's the ultimate book geek blog. And since I can't keep up with literary books as much as I would love to, I leave it to this blog cause they d...