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I wanted to bawl my eyes out by the end. Wow what a trip.

Okay. Okay.

what the fuck hahahahhahha

Every story has been a wild ride. Oblivion is kind of verbose but I have to admit the trend of being caught inadvertently by the end is very entertaining.

I've stopped multiple times while reading Good Old Neon, which is not particularly long at all and I could've finished it already, but it touched more than one of my own sentiments about death and suicide.

Just finished Mister Squishy and... LMAO. This guy. There are walls of text that feel like someone blabbering on your ear about a topic you don't care about (okay Statistics and Marketing) but if you don't pay attention you'll miss the good sweet parts.

Aquí otra vez dándole un chance.

El crimen iba bien pero ya no me gusta tanto por donde va.

Parece que a Villoro le gusta adornar con palabras llamativas. Esta novela tiene muchas 'frases definitivas' pero es entretenida hasta ahora. Está como para leerla durante vacaciones.

Almost at the end (currently on the conclusion chapter) AND just realized I got a different ISBN than the one I got logged... Anyway, what a ride.

Had to stop to record the reaction to the beginning of the Lacerated Breasts's chapter. Wow. Again, I think I had an entirely different idea of what to expect but this is so good. Interesting medicine/pain and S&M prime with Lorde and Bob Flanagan's performance.

Took a moment to log while reading because this chapter started off great. As much as I appreciate the framework Fanon provided to understand the colonized mind, the critiques on the lack of nuance (or overt exclusion?) on his analysis of the black woman on the search for lactification/infantilization of her desires via Mayotte are on point. Wasn't there a similar critique for Césaire?

Been dwelling on Objectification, Complicity and Coldness. The highlight has been the evaluation of the masochist's desire for recognition & Musser's point on agency: the masochist cannot achieve full objectivity because on their pursuit for it their agency reifies their subjectivity; simultaneously objectifying the Master, ignoring their desire (their own search for pleasure vs. the pleasure for the masochist).

Just started, the introduction is banging! Musser begins with the concept of masochism per Krafft-Ebing, Freud, Foucault, Bersani and Edelman to position it as an analytical tool. Enjoyed the reading of S/M from Foucault as a call to build new forms of kinship from subversion plus then she says without hesitation "Hey, let's not stop there" to set sexuality aside in favor of difference.

El capítulo de psicopatologia me está dando en la madre.

Re-reading. Esta vez se siente como leerlo a tiempo y con mejor comprensión de muchos de los conceptos que se vieron antes (deracialization or lactification; the psychosis from different angles like rejection/repulsion of blackness (Mayotte, Nini) vs. the inability to see oneself as anything other than black or the Other (Jean Veneuse) both by.. proximity to whiteness. Fanon de veras va con Sartre.