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A review by lizshayne
Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times by Alexis Shotwell
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
…apparently this book took me over a year to read.
Mostly because I had to highlight and think about and process it. And then keep going.
I’m still thinking about it, what it means to do rather than (just) think and acknowledge the ways that we are all always already entangled. And impure.
The bit about speculative disability futures got me. But then again, so did the frogs.
It’s a book for thinking about and with, even if it’s written in what I think of as “high theory”.
I finished it, but it’s not done with
Mostly because I had to highlight and think about and process it. And then keep going.
I’m still thinking about it, what it means to do rather than (just) think and acknowledge the ways that we are all always already entangled. And impure.
The bit about speculative disability futures got me. But then again, so did the frogs.
It’s a book for thinking about and with, even if it’s written in what I think of as “high theory”.
I finished it, but it’s not done with