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How modernization is presented doesn’t make sense. How can modernization be both the spread of Christianity and then include secularism too? I think the definition of modernity in this book is just the general concept of the new Western ideas of each period of history. For some reason this definition doesn’t feel satisfactory to me.

I don’t appreciate what the author implies about the relationship between the European colonial project and modernity. Yes, colonialism brought “Western” science to the rest of the world, but the author also presents modernity as including liberalism (eg separation of church and state), and the treatment of indigenous peoples was verifiably not liberal in this sense.

I’m tearing up

Some info dumping but I don’t even care because the Yoshiki/Hikaru stuff is so good

Kobo said I had two hours to go when I picked this back up, and now it’s only an hour.
I hope to try and get back to reading this, and hopefully finish it.

The Jenji Kohan profile (this last chapter) is fantastic

Really enjoying this

Haven’t read this in a couple weeks but wanted to update my progress