reibureibu's reviews
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My fault for not knowing going in that it would take an anthropological lens of "liminal spaces", and in that regard I found the text rather challenging (likely due to my unfamiliarity with the field) in spite of its brief length. I'd wager that anyone interested in this due to its subject matter will feel the same if not an anthropologist, but even so it's well worth pushing through because all the anthropology-specific technics Augé frontloads serve to make the back-half of the text dense and weighted (despite the 'liminality' of its topic) with analysis in a way that much of the popular literature of "liminal spaces" falls deeply short of. "Non-Places" is then perhaps the first truly edifying work on said topic I have come across, which is all the more impressive given it was first published in 1995; youtube video essays have a long way to go.

Accessibly-rigorous and rigorously-accessible political economic readings of gore flicks like Hellraiser and The Human Centipede; intermittent autotheory that adds so much personal historization to the highly abstract and metaphorical dialectics it bookends; assemblage-ing the high-/low-brow until it becomes irreducibly gallerte slop (babe wake up it's time for our corporately-mandated 15min lunch). And he's even catty.

So fucking cool. The kind of shit I wanna do.

Me, wondering why all the friends I make are autistic.

...oh.

"Whoever wants to take our guns away wants to restore slavery."

(Verso graphic novel adaptation.)

Me when I win made-up arguments in the shower.

Unfolds innumerable potentialities. Innumerable futures. Paradigm-changing and -defining and -multiplying. There was/is a 'me' before and after Puar's work. Of course, there will be innumerable.

Fundamental disagreements aside (which tbh are largely certainly due to cultural-historical shifts), I have an enormous respect for Marcus Aurelius in that he clearly cares for his fellow man and has an ethical conscientiousness that pervades his very being. Even more admirable is that he clearly struggles in doing so, his writing herein a private undertaking to become that which he upholds, humbly. Here is someone I could dispute personal philosophy with for hours and walk away with few agreements but fewer scruples; I think finally I have an answer for those time machine queries.

Outrageously funny. Let us cultivate our garden.

yeah

Malatesta's account of anarchism seems greatly like marxism (I'm a fan) without governmental structure (I'm unsure), which surely is the point. I can't really say I believe any sort of anarchism would work in the 21st-century, but that's no fault of a text written right before the 20th and if this is what anarchist literature is like then I'm certainly keen on reading more from them.