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Kindle unlimited is so wack don’t do that shit you can get ebooks for free from the library and like download PDFs and shit. I’m in the verso book club and I pay $10/month to receive books of everything they publish each month…. Before they’re out in print ;)

My kindle is so back

I wonder if I’m the only one reading rent boy on commercial breaks during the eagles season opener……. Go birds

“It is naive to conclude that the evocation of fascism signals a current renewal of fascism (it is precisely because one is no longer there, because one is in something else, (…) that fascism can again become fascinating in its filtered cruelty, aestheticized)”

^ originally published in 1981 & I’m thinking about the defanging of fascism that allowed the resurgence of it. aestheticized void reborn as real

Managing to nail bad friendship, bad marriage, bad mom relationship, bad dad relationship, bad dating, bad exes, etc. all in one text without overdoing it. Hilarious awful well-done

Deliciously brutal from the jump. The prose is GOOD

“It’s so confusing sometimes to be a girl” - Hans Castorp listening to Settembrini and Naphta

Got so sucked into this

“Power itself has for a long time produced nothing but the signs of its resemblance. And at the same time, another figure of power comes into play: that of a collective demand for signs of power— a holy union that is reconstructed around its disappearance. The whole world adheres to it more or less in terror of the collapse of the political."

I'm back on my bullshit (loving Baudrillard)

on god i'm gonna be able to explain teleology, ontology, heuristic, tautological, etc. etc. in my own words so smoothly after this

really on my 19th c german lit shit

Really doing it for me

Joining women in translation month late (I just got home from California) (taking this to the pool in New Jersey)

It is really all happening — Hans Castorp is so “we’re all mad here” coded

Well we got evacuated from Big Sur but I did take the book from the hotel

Starting this because I am in Big Sur and there is a copy of it in my cabin

This edition rocks (ignore the dumb cover) -- the translator's note and the introduction were both really enlightening, and I'm finding this translation so much more rich than the last one I tried. I'm connecting with it when I really didn't the first time around. Also helpful explanatory endnotes!

This book is soooo good if this is your thing

Clavdia Chauchat…… what a woman!!!

Getting deeper into this also getting into Kierkegaard and black holes at the same time…. A lot going on

I am not crazy about this and it's reminding me of Peer Gynt which I also was not crazy about

a modelo and some adorno lectures, yum

i love the way this guy writes, philosophy gets so boring when everyone's trying to come up with logical theorems to prove things in the word equivalent of math.... this guy's just like "life sucks, here's why, but also life is beautiful.... and a HUGE disappointment, don't have kids." he's perfect

A delicious reading experience, I’m mad I have to pause here until book club meets

This just got so gay

I never had a phase of engaging with serial killer media so this is rough but the overall work she's doing here and the web she's weaving are soooo interesting..... I'm just like wow I know the names of these guys but I've never really Looked Into their escapades. bad!

I am obsessed with the absolutely relentless tone and pacing of this book I don’t want to put it down (but I have to go to book club)

I love this book

Starting over for book club and reading the new translation out from Oxford