Literary Stuff

Some thoughts on what I’ve been reading with varying degrees of thought and quality.

January 2022 Readings

Love’s Work - Gillian Rose . Mourning Becomes the Law - Gillian Rose . “From Speculative to Dialectical Thinking — Hegel and Adorno” in Judaism and Modernity - Gillian Rose This is really just my reading notes. Gillian Rose’s contributions to philosophy, sociology, jewish thought and radical politics are important for our time. I am taking To Think the Absolute — Gillian Rose’s Speculative Philosophy a lecture series by Daniel Lopez at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy...

December 2021 Readings

December 2021 Readings The Disposessed - Ursela Le Guin . Normal People - Sally Rooney . Beautiful World Where Are You? - Sally Rooney . Monkey Grip - Helen Garner

November Readings

November Readings Brave New World - Aldous Huxley . Aldous Huxley and Utopia (Prisms) - Theadore W.Adorno . See What You Made Me Do - Jess Hill Brave New World - Aldoux Huxley “Community, Identity, and Stability” this is the Brave New World’s answer to the radical bourgeois revolution, and only very few in the New World understand this deliciously illegal reference. The New World is some arrangement of highly centralised State Capitalism....

October Readings

October Readings The Martian - Andy Weir Mark Watney strikes readers as quite ordinary. We’re in his head, and it’s like our own, or rather his thoughts are similar to what we might share aloud with an ironic tone. I didn’t realize until recently most astronauts - at least American astronauts, are in fact ordinary people. A Netflix documentary I watched recently follows a dad as he prepares for a launch, he was previously in the air force....