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Walter Schutjens is 25% done with Herzog
Roth, Bellow, Malamud: Jews in the US with a European intellectual upbringing conceal their superiority with absolute wit and self-reproach.
Jan 29, 2026 09:09AM Add a comment
Herzog

Walter Schutjens
Walter Schutjens is 50% done with Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
So far same content as The Burnout Society but better.
Jan 29, 2026 09:07AM Add a comment
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

Walter Schutjens
Walter Schutjens is 33% done with Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
As we become more intensely subjectivized and our emotional acuity attenuated our means of communication and self understanding becomes increasingly objectified.

Should be researching ways in which AI effects labour process control, but its promise of being able to take over our correspondances really speaks to that rationalization of the inner life.
Jan 29, 2026 09:07AM Add a comment
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism

Walter Schutjens
Walter Schutjens is 40% done with The New Cambridge Modern History, Volume 2: The Reformation 1520-1559
An incredible breadth and depth so far - love the idea of contracting chapters out to pastors. Keeps the debate alive. Shoutout 16th c. peasants as the clear OG's in this story. RIP the Renaissance we will always remember you.
Jan 23, 2026 07:52AM Add a comment
The New Cambridge Modern History, Volume 2: The Reformation 1520-1559

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Walter Schutjens is on page 497 of 1023 of Don Quixote
A breathtaking experience both in hilarity and absolute excellence/modernity!! --- “When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
Sep 22, 2025 01:59PM Add a comment
Don Quixote

Walter Schutjens
Walter Schutjens is starting Don Quixote
6 pages everyday for my last 6 months in spain :')
Feb 28, 2025 07:05AM 1 comment
Don Quixote

Walter Schutjens
Walter Schutjens is on page 105 of 191 of The End of Illusions: Politics, Economy, and Culture in Late Modernity
Fantastic summations of social facts that have over the past 20 years slowy been percolating into the general consciousness. As an urban metropolitan new middle class consumer i will now continue to try and wed the bourgeoise and romantic ideals of self actualization and success
Jan 31, 2025 07:40AM Add a comment
The End of Illusions: Politics, Economy, and Culture in Late Modernity

Walter Schutjens
Walter Schutjens is 10% done with A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 1
Lucid lucid ludic - Just as Harvey taught to his own students: sublate, I must teach myself
Dec 05, 2024 09:24AM 1 comment
A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 1

Walter Schutjens
Walter Schutjens is 20% done with Das Kapital
Dense dense dense - just as marx did to the concepts of his subject of capitalism: abstract, i must do with marx
Dec 05, 2024 09:23AM Add a comment
Das Kapital

Walter Schutjens
Walter Schutjens is starting Europe's Social Integration: Welfare Models and Economic Transformations
As the supposedly eurosceptic but thoroughly pro internal market far right surges in the polls throughout Europe I wonder what of Lazslo's honeslty argued vision will remain standing.
Nov 07, 2024 08:15AM Add a comment
Europe's Social Integration: Welfare Models and Economic Transformations

Walter Schutjens
Walter Schutjens is 40% done with A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War
Second read whilst travelling to Barcelona through the steppes of Aragon along the Ebro river
Oct 22, 2024 12:41PM Add a comment
A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War

Walter Schutjens
Walter Schutjens is starting Death in the Afternoon
I usually enjoy reading game instructions but the author really overdid it with the anecdotes inserted here.
Oct 21, 2024 01:43AM Add a comment
Death in the Afternoon

Walter Schutjens
Walter Schutjens is on page 650 of 1160 of The End (My Struggle, #6)
Knausgaard just made me read 300 pages of psychoanalysis concerning the young Hitler on one of my only weeks off.
Nov 06, 2023 06:42AM Add a comment
The End (My Struggle, #6)

Walter Schutjens
Walter Schutjens is on page 70 of 279 of Pride and Prejudice
will she or wont she?
Nov 06, 2023 06:41AM Add a comment
Pride and Prejudice

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Walter Schutjens is 45% done with Authoritarian Liberalism and the Transformation of Modern Europe
Coherent and clear. Repetitive at times but lucid.
Aug 18, 2023 01:50PM Add a comment
Authoritarian Liberalism and the Transformation of Modern Europe

Walter Schutjens
Walter Schutjens is 25% done with Vertigo
The wandering Sebald, what a melancholic manifestation
Apr 25, 2023 12:39PM Add a comment
Vertigo

Walter Schutjens
Walter Schutjens is 33% done with Thames: Sacred River
Glory to tames isis
Feb 05, 2023 04:55AM Add a comment
Thames: Sacred River

Walter Schutjens
Walter Schutjens is 40% done with Die Verwandlung
Forced to read Kafka incredibly slowly because i am reading it in germanic, even more cringe.
Jan 07, 2023 08:27AM Add a comment
Die Verwandlung

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