Sometimes I think plurals dehumanize themselves too much, and then I see even a separately embodied twin wondering if they're actually a person. The singlet mind is a beautiful thing.
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forcefemjdwon rated The Master and Margarita: 5 stars
The Master and Margarita by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
A masterful translation of one of the great novels of the 20th century
Nothing in the whole of literature …
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The Master and Margarita by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
A masterful translation of one of the great novels of the 20th century
Nothing in the whole of literature …
forcefemjdwon started reading The Age of Revolution by Eric Hobsbawm
forcefemjdwon reviewed How to Be Multiple by Helena de Bres
How to Be Singlet
Sometimes I think plurals dehumanize themselves too much, and then I see even a separately embodied twin wondering if they're actually a person. The singlet mind is a beautiful thing.
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@alicehandle It's a very funny solution, though
@alicehandle It's a very funny solution, though
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alicehandle quoted A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (Teixcalaan, #1)
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover …
"I would like to talk to Yskandr. Either stop pretending to be Mahit Dzmare, or allow him to speak."
Quite exactly like a knife, Mahit thought.
"With all respect, ezuazuacat, I can't do either of those things," she said. "The first is impossible, as I am not pretending to be myself. The second is more complicated than you are suggesting.
"Is it," said Nineteen Adze. She teased her lips together. "Why aren't you him?"
— A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (Teixcalaan, #1) (Page 107)
POV: you're frontstuck and your headmate's friend wants to talk to him
POV: you're frontstuck and your headmate's friend wants to talk to him
forcefemjdwon rated Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy: 5 stars
forcefemjdwon rated The King in Yellow, Deluxe Edition: 3 stars
forcefemjdwon reviewed On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the …
Read State and Revolution instead
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This is a work of exceptionally poor liberal political theory, doomed to be so because of the author's lack of historical education and historical materialist perspective as well as his commitment to a short "pop" style structure. The author makes fundamental errors on defining communism and fascism by avoiding the question of political economy, and as a result his explanation on what "tyranny" is and how to fight it is hollow. His anti-communist views lead to glaring historical omissions that result in outright misinformation. For instance, he complains about Austrians complying in advance with the Nazis in 1938, but this completely ignores the defeat of anti-fascist forces in the 1934 Austrian Civil War. In general, his suggestions to fight "tyranny" are platitudes with little substance. There are surely better works on the subject out there by actual anti-fascists.
This is a work of exceptionally poor liberal political theory, doomed to be so because of the author's lack of historical education and historical materialist perspective as well as his commitment to a short "pop" style structure. The author makes fundamental errors on defining communism and fascism by avoiding the question of political economy, and as a result his explanation on what "tyranny" is and how to fight it is hollow. His anti-communist views lead to glaring historical omissions that result in outright misinformation. For instance, he complains about Austrians complying in advance with the Nazis in 1938, but this completely ignores the defeat of anti-fascist forces in the 1934 Austrian Civil War. In general, his suggestions to fight "tyranny" are platitudes with little substance. There are surely better works on the subject out there by actual anti-fascists.
forcefemjdwon rated The Dialectical Biologist: 5 stars
The Dialectical Biologist by Richard Lewontin, Richard Levins
The Dialectical Biologist is a 1985 book by the ecologist Richard Levins and the biologist Richard Lewontin, in which the …
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The Dialectical Biologist by Richard Lewontin, Richard Levins
The Dialectical Biologist is a 1985 book by the ecologist Richard Levins and the biologist Richard Lewontin, in which the …
