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Dear diary,

Today I continued with my miserable mental self mutilation by reading the uninteresting & uninspiring drivel of a theoryboi who offers nothing new, but is "successful" in "academia". As a teacher, I loathe the disintegration of protections for professors & teachers alike. As a reader, I think this man should be thrown out on his arse. Why do boring men worship the drivel of other boring men? Le sigh.

I think the most upsetting thing about this book is this fact: North American has 3 billion LESS birds now than it had in 1970. DDT was legal in the US until 1972.

That means we have less birds NOW than at the height of the DDT crisis. That's insane, and it's insane that more people aren't aware of this.

But knowing it makes this book extra hard to read.

I seriously don't know if I can make it to the end of this book. My insistence on finish this is clearly some sort of twisted masochism, a grotesque self-torture that serves no purpose but to make me miserable.

If you're reading this update, save yourself before it's too late: don't read ANYTHING by Eugene Thacker. He's an example of why academic sucks ass.