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OK, I will finish this, but it is so non-academic and merely a TERF treatise spewing hate about trans people. UGH. And she claims to be feminist? Oof.

Just going to say I am appalled Routledge would publish this. But I am reading it so I can shred the author's hateful "theories".

NEVER reading anything by J.K. Rowling again. EVER.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2...

Nick Cave is fascinating, and I am surprised at how close-minded O'Hagan is with his questions and assumptions about Nick.

Equal parts fascinating, frustrating, and depressing. Love it!

A fascinating treatise, and one that deserves wider readership for sure.

Brilliant and deeply thought-provoking.

I am unsure why I am reading this. I am convinced we will not stop the Capitalists torching the planet for wealth and power, and that makes me sad and mad as hell. Still, one can bask in the afterglow of resistance, feel some warmth, and bring some light to the darkness. A bit, maybe.

Quite an intriguing beginning. Wasn't expecting the direction its going.
Woop!

years later and GR still sends me book recs I would never ever read. yay, technology!

Fascinating! I love Shakespeare studies!

Brilliant!

At last! The final book in the series! No one writes likes Proust. No. One.

Mouffe's agonistics shows quite clearly why the current White-Liberal-Democracy idea(l) will always fail, as WLD requires not only the idea of a linear progression (right side of history, when there isn't one) but also an end game, a final point (again, there isn't one).

I struggle with Benjamin's lack of rigor, so I am hoping Eagleton's willing lack of any specifics will just make it all OK.

Starting off more historical than theoretical.

Might as well finish the trilogy while the Idea is fresh!

Balibar gets very academic, Bosteels is just dull.

Fabulous. Badiou is brilliant and firmly Communist as expected.

Smart and articulate and engrossing.

No amount of dialogue or moral preaching will ever convince the ruling class to give up its power.

Generally pissed that I have to settle for Biden just because the possibility of #45 winning in 2024 means the Democrats won't put forth a meaningful Progressive candidate. Fuck all.

So Governor Whitmer of MI signs into law some amazing red flag gun provisions for her state's citizens. Then... White Supremacist Michigan People... Livingston County says they won't expend any additional resources to support the laws or enforce them with any effort. Again, White Supremacist People makes unfettered access to guns, even for those known to be a danger to themselves AND others. FUCK.

When Stuart Hall does your Intro and heaps praise on your work...
Wow.

This just goes in so many directions, but still maintains an intellectual cohesion.

I had forgotten how random and yet intellectually rigorous Virilio can be.

“Whenever people keep being given a platform to say they have no platform, or whenever people speak endlessly about being silenced, you not only have a performative contradiction; you are witnessing a mechanism of power”

“ Yet this willingness to judge trans politics as a whole by directly critiquing one television actress’s body, posture, outfit and hair is exactly the kind of inference that would be plainly misogynist if made about a cis woman.”

“Prisons are human misery factories that increase violence and dehumanization and fail in almost every positive role we are commonly told they fulfil beyond punishment, such as deterrence and rehabilitation.”

“'Crime’ itself is a broad conceptual category used by the state to describe breaking laws. Criminality is sometimes distinct from questions of ethics or harm, despite the fact that we are encouraged to see them as one and the same.”