Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

Babel, or The Necessity of Violence

An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

2002 • 560 pages

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babel; or, the necessity of violence
love me a book with a secret alternate title
succeeded, if bluntly, on many points. however, i feel that the key part of revolutionary politics is building solidarity—which it felt like this novel undermined precisely by making silverwork a single point of failure that could be toppled by a few, rather than requiring unified class action. this made the politics feel overall unrefined, despite the solid underlying messages