Status Updates From Evolution of Desire: A Life...

Highly recommend “The French Invasion” chapter in here just to see the absolute shitshow the birth of poststructuralism was, Lacan the arsehole and Derrida the adulterous male feminist.

Love Girard, love that this book exists, etc. But Haven, God bless her, is clearly a chronicler—not a writer. This sentence—and the book is filled with them—shows what I mean: “Publish or perish is a cliché, but the number and eminence of scholarly articles and books mattered enormously in academic advancement.”
I’m a bit uncharitable because I haven’t eaten today. But still. That’s bad, right?