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1999 updated preface was great. An absolutely phenomenal point on style vis a vis critiques of the “difficulty” of the book-
“Style is a complicated terrain…there is nothing radical about common sense. It would be a mistake to think that received grammar is the best vehicle for expressing radical views, given the constraints that grammar imposes upon thought, indeed, upon the thinkable itself.”
— Aug 05, 2024 08:37AM
“Style is a complicated terrain…there is nothing radical about common sense. It would be a mistake to think that received grammar is the best vehicle for expressing radical views, given the constraints that grammar imposes upon thought, indeed, upon the thinkable itself.”
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First two of three chapters done. Absolutely having a blast- easily the most enjoyable theory book I’ve read this year. Bringing together so many previous influences: Freud, Lacan, Foucault, Derrida/Deleuze, Levi-Strauss, and introducing great new ones: Irigaray, Wittig, Beauvoir. So far a really phenomenal nonessentialist, antifoundationalist account of sex/gender overcoming many of Freud/Lacan’s aporias.
— Aug 15, 2024 06:53AM
