Reviews and Comments

Getting back into some media studies, as our precedented times require us to study our practical theory

Incredibly pithy and with many blind spots. It serves as a primer for the modern liberal but is dangerous if taken as the ultimate reference on authoritarianism.

Finally reading this, whatever

I should have been a spy

Never read this. Need to correct that error.

Though this is a generation introspection—one which I as a Garden State-millennial both do not get and am glad I am past—I sense that Zhou would feel most at home at a Parisian café with Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin.

ok i will read the gen z tranifesto finally

A good book with keen insights, though I wonder who the best audience is. It’s too high a level for mainstream folks, but non-tech industry lefties and progressives will appreciate it.

Diving into some more contemporary luddism.

Sehr lustig: ungefähr die Hälfte der Rezepten kommen aus Italien, Indien, usw. Aber der Titel lautet Die 100 Lieblingsgerichte der Deutschen, nicht Die 100 deutschen Lieblingsgerichte. Ich vergesse, wie buchstäblich Deutsch ist.

Finally finished this after too long away from reading. I struggled with pushing through some of the earlier material, but the last chapters are really worth it. There’s so much good stuff here that is too often lost in the Hirschfeld lionizing.

And it’s also time for me to jump into #77 on the Modern Library list. I haven’t read Joyce in 20+ years. I’m a little dreading this.

I’ve been wanting to read this contextualization of Magnus Hirschfeld for a minute, so it’s time to dive in.

Great read, very relevant for today. I like that it talks more about Latin American fascism than many books today, as that movement tends to be overlooked in favor of the European counterparts.

Interesting and a fast read, but it could be better organized in each chapter and would benefit from trading off some breadth for more depth in places. Tends to jump to conclusions, and overall leans vaguely right wing though it clearly tries to be neutral, at least from the Western lens.