We talk about Jack Womack's "Random acts of senseless violence" - a "minute into the future" dystopia told from the perspective of a 12 year old girl. It's gritty and depressing, just our speed.

Topics include:

- How this is a horror story for the Bourgeois

- The atomization of daily life

- Hobbesian themes

- Derrida and the duality between center and periphery

- The merits of a political book with no obvious villain

- The violence/mundanity barrier