==ENGLISH== My pseudo is a pun on a French expression, "À vau-l'eau", meaning "kind of adrift", and the name of the Swiss Canton (State) where I live, Vaud, which is pronunced the same as "vau". The whole thing means "Adrift autist from Vaud". Until about 10 years ago, I was a pretty rabid reader, although I would often read the same book again and again and again (up to 100 times). But then, I went through a sever burn-out and reading, which had always been a way for me to restore my emotional and cognitive capaicities suddenly became a heavy weight, that kept reminding me of the time when things were much better and that I could never return to that. I was still reading from times to times, but only academic books of the type I had been reading during my studies. But I couldn't open a fictional novel anymore. SInce, I haven't been able to find any activity that could really replace reading for restoring my mind, I have progressively decided to get back to reading novels I used to read, but which are not too related to specific period of my life, especially not my childhood. Now, I alternate between so-called "academic" reading and novels, especially the fantasy type (like Mists of Avalon).
Although I'm fairly fluent in English, I do tend to publish a lot in French.
==FRANÇAIS== Comme indiqué dans mon nom de profil, je suis autiste et un peu perdue! J'étais une grosse lectrice jusqu'à ce qu'il y a quelques années, je perde le goût de lire des livres, pour me focaliser uniquement sur des articles. Cette période a correspondu aussi à mon burn-out. Progressivement, je reprends goût à la lecture, même si c'est plutôt des ouvrages de type "académique", c'est-à-dire, de la philosophie, de la sociologie, de l'anthropologie, de l'histoire et des sciences-po. Ceux-ci me sont en grande partie inspirés par les débats que je suis en ligne, notamment chez de nombreux vidéastes, aussi passionnants que talentueux, qui abordent des thématiques qui m'ont toujours intéressée et le font en profondeur, avec beaucoup de références à lire. Mais, je commence aussi à apprécier de nouveau certains romans que je lisais à la fin de mes études.
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A boy with extraordinary powers. An army of deadly monsters. An epic battle for the future of peculiardom.
The adventure …
September 3, 1940. Ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. And only one person can help them—but she’s …
The Mists of Avalon is a 1983 historical fantasy novel by American writer Marion Zimmer Bradley, in which the author …
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Trump, le choix du chaos et des stratèges de la colère
Les nouvelles têtes pensantes de la droite américaine s’appuient sur le pouvoir électoral de l’ancien président pour faire avancer leurs idées et développer une rhétorique apocalyptique et fascisante qui va comme un gant au meilleur «véhicule» de «la rage des électeurs républicains».
September 3, 1940. Ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. And only one …
Well, I've décided to keep following Jake and his peculiar friends as they are running for their lives. Let's see how the adventure turns out and what old vintage photos the author has in store!
A horrific family tragedy sends sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers …
A horrific family tragedy sends sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast …
This is quite an enticing Fantastic novel, based on old pictures collected by the author or by other people who kindly made them available for this book. At first, the story is quite weird and so is the writing style. It took me a little while to get into it. However, this is the first book of a series and I ended up wanting to know what happens next to the group of peculiar heroes of this story. So, even though, the story might initially feel not too endearing, you do get to appreciate the ideas and the characters. So, now, onto book n°2, Hollow City.
A horrific family tragedy sends sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast …
This is a birthday gift I received from a very dear friend and I can see why she chose that novel. It has a lot of things to attract me in. I'm only at the second chapter, but I feel both really intriguided and warmed up by the enchanted mantle of reading a fiction, a new fiction, something I haven't donne for a very long time! ☺️
Barbara Ehrenreich's Bright-sided is a sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a …
It is commonly assumed that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; that economic behavior conflicts with …
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Hi everyone! I just transferred over from climatejustice.rocks, which was set up during the massive influx of users in Nov. 2022, but is going to stop functioning at the end of this year. I'm a #professor in #Florida, United States, who studies marine records of #ClimateChange and the #carbon cycle. I post about these studies, about related studies, and a lot about equity issues. I am also a citizen. I am #antifascist, and I believe that our #ClimateEmergency is caused by and will not be solved by #capitalism. I apologize in advance if you just wanted to hear about science - I cannot disentangle climate issues from justice issues, and I don't believe anyone who thinks they can!
The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling, by Arlie Russell Hochschild, was first published in …
After two books by #EvaIllouz on #capitalism and #emotion, this one by #Hochschild seems like an almost logical step in my new reading adventures! I remember reading « The #secondshift », which she published in the 1980's and it is one of the college assignments that particularly influenced my views on #feminism, especially the issue of housechores sharing (or rather lack thereof) among couples and how this socio-cultural phenomenon has been hampering efforts to reach socio-economic equality between men and women. It seems to me that the #managedheart is located at the crossroad between the aforementioned works. I'll see how it turns out and I already look forward to it.
It is commonly assumed that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; …
These are three lectures given by Eva Illouz back in 2006 on the subject of what she calls « emotional capitalism » back in the early 2000's. As they are short essays, aimed at conveying years of work on love, emotions and capitalism, the content is a lot more condensed than her other publications and requires more concentration. But it is really worth the effort. I'm not going to expand much on it now, but if you wish to get a broad and, at the same time, carefully nuanced understanding of the intricacies between psychology, nowadays capitalism and technology, this is a good starting point. However, not for those who have no background in sociology and philosophy, as she doesn't dwell much on a lot of notions considered basic in these fields.
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