M. J.’s Reviews > Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide > Status Update

Trying not to let the gender essentialism and the use of "evolutionary psychology" – one of the lamest spawns of Evolution theory along with social darwinism, to get in the way of the actual interesting ideas of this book, having a hard time, but I persist.

«Art requires obstruction; pure, limitless freedom is the death of art. An aesthetic is necessary for the creation and experience of art. This aesthetic need not be explicit or articulable, and frequently includes inarticulable elements. But even purely legible rule sets can create much of the aesthetic context that art needs in order to be meaningful»

This book is fascinating...