katherine’s Reviews > Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect > Status Update

Gloria Anzaldúa mention hell yeah. Also I've accepted the fact that I'm going to have to keep my dictionary tab permanently open for this book

"[Language] sometimes only sees itself; if it sees outside of itself, it sometimes responds only with itself; and it sometimes must be left altogether, perishing in the nonlanguage the moment demands."
Linguistics is so fun

this book is impossible

Chen is like I am going to reference every single heavy hitting piece of communist, feminist, anti-racist literature and I am perfectly ok with that

It feels like Chen goes out of their way to use the most complicated terminology for objectively simple things. Why do you have to say "ontological veridicality" my computer doesn't even recognize veridicality as a word
(also I'm complaining but I'm 90% sure this book is aimed at academics not random people like me so...)

Trying to search for definitions of some of these words and even the Wikipedia definition says "This article may be too technical for most readers to understand"

my god that intro was like a map with so much incessant labeling that the actual geography is indecipherable

Writing that says "this is related to this, this, that, and also this" feels like a lazy excuse to not be specific with the actual point.

like oh my god I know animacy as a concept has political, social, linguistic etc ramifications BECAUSE YOU'VE SAID IT FIVE TIMES WITHOUT EXPANDING!!!!!! (except this is the intro so. I'm being mean)

damn. this is unreadable

acquired from the library. let's fucking go