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read in February 2023
Wei Lin said:
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I have always not been very interested in literary history, since I was under the impression that it simply involved listing literary works in some sort of chronological order while referencing relevant historical events. Zwicker, however, has change
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(page 71 of 256)
"Rereading. I appreciate the way Zwicker moves in the first chapter from the tensions between a number of coeval dyads (e.g. book history and literary history, or different types of printing) to eventually arrive at a question concerning what mediates two related but ostensibly distinct lineages (or histories), thus allowing for the writing of another possible history.
The punctuation for me here is Luhmann's theory." — Aug 09, 2026 04:23AM
"Rereading. I appreciate the way Zwicker moves in the first chapter from the tensions between a number of coeval dyads (e.g. book history and literary history, or different types of printing) to eventually arrive at a question concerning what mediates two related but ostensibly distinct lineages (or histories), thus allowing for the writing of another possible history.
The punctuation for me here is Luhmann's theory." — Aug 09, 2026 04:23AM
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"I suppose reading a biography of a mangaka to learn about manga history is more interesting than reading manga history itself." — Jul 27, 2026 04:24AM
"I suppose reading a biography of a mangaka to learn about manga history is more interesting than reading manga history itself." — Jul 27, 2026 04:24AM
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"If psychoanalysis is merely reinforcing the repressive tendency of desiring production (which is social production), then Deleuze and Guattari seem to argue that the more prior repression seems to come from certain configurations of economic relations. I don't quite understand it fully, but there is an interesting genealogy of the desiring/social production relationship that they sketch out in part 3." — Jun 20, 2026 01:32AM
"If psychoanalysis is merely reinforcing the repressive tendency of desiring production (which is social production), then Deleuze and Guattari seem to argue that the more prior repression seems to come from certain configurations of economic relations. I don't quite understand it fully, but there is an interesting genealogy of the desiring/social production relationship that they sketch out in part 3." — Jun 20, 2026 01:32AM
“Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.”
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“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.”
― Watership Down
― Watership Down
“The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”
― Watership Down
― Watership Down
“Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!”
― Watership Down
― Watership Down
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