Author: David Schwarm
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Frogs
Introduction There was a lot going on before we even got to the frogs. The discussion at the frogs was again fantastic and ard to follow and a little less unified than before–there were basically two conversations going on the entire time. At least. Pregame A woman was watering the plants. Someone had died, she…
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is a hard one to review. It is complex. It reviews a lot of important thinkers and provides some interesting ideas around identity and gender. But it is VERY hard to read. The summaries of other philosophers…
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Judy, you kill me
theories of feminist identity that elaborate predicates of color, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and able-bodiedness invariably close with an embarrassed “etc.” at the end of the list. Through this horizontal trajectory of adjectives, these positions strive to encompass a situated subject, but invariably fail to be complete. This failure, however, is instructive: what political impetus is…
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Nick Cave at the Shrine
Jack and I drove up to USC to see Nick Cave. This was the Warren Ellis experience, which is fine but not my favorite–the show was OK, but I expect a LOT more from the godfather of goth. He did play the song that I will play at Lisa’s Funeral. Flea joined him for an…
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Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) by Marcel Proust, C.K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator), Terence Kilmartin (Translator), D.J. Enright (Revisions)
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust My rating: 5 of 5 stars Absolutely Fantastic! This is seriously the most important book of the twentieth century. In my 20s, I was told to read this series every decade that you are alive and this may have been the best read-through I have experienced. Honestly, it changed how…
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