Status Updates From Passion: An Essay on Person...

Incredibly difficult to read, due to Unger's using four or five different terms to describe each concept and rotating between them constantly.

This book is very different than his previous two, which were both bristling with references to untranslated German social theory. By contrast, it licks a single footnote, endnote, nor in-line reference to anything (only canonical names), nor any bibliography. This gives

What the Hell !

skipped the introduction after ~10 pages bc whew i do not have nearly enough background in modernist philosophy for it. i'll try again after i finish the book :,)

"Another mode of empowerment consists in our relative success at diminishing the conflict between the need to participate in social life for the sake of material, emotional, and cognitive sustenance and the impulse to avoid subjection to other people."

This is the exact reason social media is so powerful and permeates the world so well.