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75% complete! left_adjoint has read 18 of 24 books.
This book is a big mixed bag for me. There's a lot of stuff in it that really gets you stewing about the design of software and what it means for software to be good but there are times where ideas feel wrenched into the framework of theatre when it doesn't make sense
this is kind of a book about intersubjectivity as it applies to software design but without ever actually using that word directly
I have no idea what this book will hit like fifteen years later but let's find out
No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving—every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading …
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women …
The only reason why I'm giving it 4.5 not 5 stars is because I think the analysis near the end was a little thin. I would have liked to hear more of the author's synthesis in relation to 20th century trans movements and anti-trans backlash in the conclusion
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women …
God I hope this book is cool
I'm a pretty big fan of creepypasta and r/nosleep artifacts as well as weird 4-th wall breaking fiction, have been for a long time, so I feel like I should have liked this but honestly it didn't do much for me. A lot of the dangled mystery was juuuust interesting enough that I didn't want to DNF the book but when we actually get to it it feels pretty unsatisfying.
I'd call the writing Whedon-esque but honestly for all of Joss's faults as a writer he knows he to let some dramatic tension happen without making a tonally weird joke about it. You kinda know not to get worried about anything that's happening because it will be resolved in some sorta lol-random way. Like it's one thing to be genre aware in writing or to have a main character in-on-the-joke but it's another when the narrative character in a horror …
I'm a pretty big fan of creepypasta and r/nosleep artifacts as well as weird 4-th wall breaking fiction, have been for a long time, so I feel like I should have liked this but honestly it didn't do much for me. A lot of the dangled mystery was juuuust interesting enough that I didn't want to DNF the book but when we actually get to it it feels pretty unsatisfying.
I'd call the writing Whedon-esque but honestly for all of Joss's faults as a writer he knows he to let some dramatic tension happen without making a tonally weird joke about it. You kinda know not to get worried about anything that's happening because it will be resolved in some sorta lol-random way. Like it's one thing to be genre aware in writing or to have a main character in-on-the-joke but it's another when the narrative character in a horror story, even a comedic one, almost never feels tension or emotions other than annoyance that he wants to get back to reading.
But with all that said I still kinda want to know what happens in the next book so clearly he's doing some things right!
This really sucks to say but [insert tyra banks we were rooting for you gif] this book took a turn for the bad really fast.
I loved that she was coming out of the gate swinging at the historic misogyny of psychiatry, talking about how experiencing sexual violence gets you retroactively cast as mentally ill in a way that made the violence your fault, &c.
She also was incredibly critical of diagnosis as an objective construct, of how we even conceptualize the idea "mental illness", and all of that was great. Not super novel, but this book was shaping up into a more accessible version of "Trauma and Madness In Mental Health Services" and I was looking forward to reccing it as Fisher-Price's My First Anti-Psych
The first blow came when, literally two pages after criticizing the historic ways that queerness in women was framed as not a love of …
This really sucks to say but [insert tyra banks we were rooting for you gif] this book took a turn for the bad really fast.
I loved that she was coming out of the gate swinging at the historic misogyny of psychiatry, talking about how experiencing sexual violence gets you retroactively cast as mentally ill in a way that made the violence your fault, &c.
She also was incredibly critical of diagnosis as an objective construct, of how we even conceptualize the idea "mental illness", and all of that was great. Not super novel, but this book was shaping up into a more accessible version of "Trauma and Madness In Mental Health Services" and I was looking forward to reccing it as Fisher-Price's My First Anti-Psych
The first blow came when, literally two pages after criticizing the historic ways that queerness in women was framed as not a love of women but trying to escape men
...she goes on a rant about how teenage "girls" are "identifying as boys" to escape patriarchy
which felt buck wild since the previous 70 pages had been hammering home the message that you can't just undermine someone's interiority and testimony about their own experiences because you see them as women/girls.
But, okay, I went into "see what's worth extracting from the rest of the text" mode
Then my partner tor (@bittertea@tilde.zone) was digging into the author and found this: vxtwitter.com/sallyann98745/status/1628731304282927105?s=61
Where the author apparently did not get consent to include stories of sexual violence survivors she talked to
And that means I cannot in good conscience read any further
Goddamnit
The first line of this book is "psychiatry is patriarchy with a prescription pad and a pen full of ink"
I think this going to be good
Paul Preciado's controversial 2019 lecture at the École de la Cause Freudienne annual conference, published in a definitive translation for …
Paul Preciado's controversial 2019 lecture at the École de la Cause Freudienne annual conference, published …
This does, in fact, slap
Becoming Unbecoming explores gender violence, blame, shame and social responsibility. Through image and text Una asks what it means to …
