|
Gareth Gobulcoque posted:I'm finding Sianne Ngai's Our Aesthetic Caregories: Zany, Cute, Interesting, which is C-SPAM as all gently caress, really hard to finish. It's just very dense. Based on the title I thought it was going to be evopsych nonsense. What’s the argument?
|
#
¿
Jun 10, 2018 21:50
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 21, 2024 06:07 |
|
|
I feel like you’d get the same thing out of listening to the podcast. Everything’s just a variation on the message that no permutation of liberalism can help our current system and this is why people are going nazi and why they should go socialist.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 27, 2018 20:51
|
|
|
New Jim Crow is extremely important and probably the best book about race and policy to come out in probably a decade. And it’s extremely well written, especially for something by an attorney.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 5, 2019 22:44
|
|
|
Epic High Five posted:I'd argue that both of those books, but especially The New Jim Crow, are required reading for every single citizen of these united states What’s the other book?
|
|
#
¿
Jan 6, 2019 02:11
|
|
|
Epic High Five posted:
Everything about my life would make sense if our world were the evil wrong timeline in a science fiction story that the time-traveler protagonist accidentally creates and then must undo.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 5, 2019 20:39
|
|
|
My Cryptonomicon memory is that it was kind of reactionary in presenting STEMboy programmers and engineers as the vanguard of the future and demonstrating the filthy humanities scholars of academe as weak and disrespectful of the Greatest Generation, plus so dumb that they thought poor people wouldn’t be able to afford internet access.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 18, 2019 14:17
|
|
|
Ah, The Grapes of Wrath, where in the end they’re able to get those grapes through hard work and live easy eating them for the rest of their days. Also if we’re talking movie Wonder Woman, she probably belongs closer to the right side given her attitude re: dropping white phosphorus onto Palestinian elementary schools.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 29, 2019 21:49
|
|
|
Wasn’t that editorial meant to make it seem like the republican establishment was in control and blunting Trump’s worst impulses—or to frame someone for doing that. What’s his purpose now?
|
|
#
¿
Oct 23, 2019 01:54
|
|
|
StashAugustine posted:
Only a white person could write this. “Yes, what indeed does happen when black people try to fight back?”
|
|
#
¿
Feb 6, 2020 04:16
|
|
|
Also police are given the benefit of the doubt to a comical degree and can murder blm leaders without consequence because they’re the ones investigating the mysterious rash of suicides where activists shoot themselves in their cars and then set their cars on fire. If you’re ever curious about why black people can’t organize against police, look up every time that has ever been tried. Cathartic spectacular violence is a white man’s fantasy because only white men can reach adulthood so coddled and deluded that they think it’s a possibility.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 6, 2020 04:47
|
|
|
We'll be gone soon enough in evolutionary terms. It took like 15,000 years for us to get to this point: do you honestly believe we have 15,000 years left to go?
|
|
#
¿
Aug 25, 2020 18:17
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 21, 2024 06:07 |
|
|
StashAugustine posted:read octavia butler's "kindred" about a black woman who keeps getting pulled back in time to the plantation her great-great-grandfather owned. quick read but really well done, need to check out more of her work Parable of the Sower is extremely relevant relevant to the present. It was relevant to the 90s too, but in a more allegorical or metaphorical way. Now it’s literally what’s happening to the US.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 30, 2020 04:25
|
|