David Given Schwarm

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…

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…

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…

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 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…