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A review by samiavasa
Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Labor by Alice Sparkly Kat
3.75
The project of laying bare the ideas and material history that accumulates within astrological terms is ambitious and beautifully executed. We get a super universalist, multi historical look into the trails of capital and whiteness through planetary significations.
My problem with this book is that it reduces astrology to relations of power. No mention of uncanniness, direct contact with the soul, synchronicities, the ever-strange accuracy of divinatory techniques. It is true we don’t talk about violence enough. But this book overcorrects this tendency and ends up with an astrology that is entirely human, entirely cultural.
My problem with this book is that it reduces astrology to relations of power. No mention of uncanniness, direct contact with the soul, synchronicities, the ever-strange accuracy of divinatory techniques. It is true we don’t talk about violence enough. But this book overcorrects this tendency and ends up with an astrology that is entirely human, entirely cultural.