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Reading it again because I wanted to dive deeper in the role of the state in the spectacle

Man, this India section is such a slog to get through, like girl, you are the last person I want thoughts of spirituality from

The fact that James Jackson is responsible for this horrendous checks out sooooo much omggg

Günter Kunert is God's favourite ameriboo

Günter Kunert is my favourite ameriboo

Unrelated to the text: EPL follows the narrative structure of a coming of age story very closely, so if we deem EPL outright as a reactionary story we have to do so with every CoA story, as many of them find the resolution on a very individual sense. Even most of the radfem Verständigungsromane did so

Liz Gilbert would not have survived a lesbian break up

Garcia reminds me why I had to leave Arendt behind me eventually

Garcia does this, in my humble (materialist) view, strange thing where she treats the social sciences, especially philosophy as the central catalyst and not the expression of the current society that surrounds it

Every critique of the term patriarchy feels highkey like this emoji 🤓🤓🤓

In his review of 'Eat, Pray, Love' (2010) Roger Ebert called the movie wish fulfilment for women, and when I read a page of what she eats for lunch and has a fictional discussion with her ex-husband where she tells him that it's all been worth it I really can't be mad at the book

Wonder if Pelicots refusal to acknowledge the abuse of her daughter a symptom of our moment of feminist sleep paralysis. she gets that her symptom is somewhat systemic but she wants justice only for her and the other plaintiffs, not the ones who fall out of the legal system.
I would argue that there is also a remnant of the egoism of the post feminist moment of the 2010s in there

Garcia would have gained much if she would not just have read 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' but also the spiritual successor, Arendt's lecture series 'On Evil', so she wouldn't have clung as much to the judicial system as much as she did

Manon would have gained much if she wouldn't just have read Eichmann in Jerusalem but also the spiritual successor, Arendts lecture series on evil, so she would have clung as much on the judicial system as much as she did

The more I read of EPL the more I dread watching the movie because there is no way a 2-hour movie made by Ryan Murphy could capture the wit and surprising emotional depth this novel has

Wonder what this book must be like to read this book without being fully enveloped in the American symbolic. So far she has referenced the film 'Field of dreams', comedian Lily Tomlin and the fall of Saigon, all very American references without much significance outside

This review might be the first time in 10 yearsI can put me obsessively reading Hannah Arendt as a late teen to use

This review might be the first time in 10 years I can dwell upon reading Hannah Arendt obsessively as a late teen

Straight (trans) women really are gods strongest soldiers

The fact that she treats reproduction as an afterthought and rather spends pages on the discussion of magic as counterlogical to the new capitalist work ethic might be my 13th reason

I really have to read Focaults 'History of sexuality' to find out why every bad book I read in the last years has this book at the core of its argumentation.

Federici missunderstands Marx in such gross ways (even in his studies of superstructure) it is very hard to trust the presentation of her other sources

In trying to debunk both the works of Marx and Engels as some sort of sacred texts she just reifies them as such, misunderstanding for example the defeat of the fem. sex in the Origins as an 'ultimate' defeat and not understanding the dialectic of the distribution of reproductive labour. If she would understand that she would be able to see that she is working on the last defeat of the female sex but sadly she doesnt

We really need a marxist history of the hunting of witches as the final stage of the defeat of the female sex, in order to fully grasp the reproduction of the working class but this really ain't it...

About a quarter into the book two notes:
1. This is the epitome of German late-2010s wokeness. Every subaltern has place in its acronym and everyone is very concerned about classism.
2. The subaltern Flâneuse actually reads the city instead of gazing at it like the Flaneur does.