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A review by reibureibu
Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism by Alfie Bown
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
What might be the ideological purpose of that which seems to escape a reading altogether? Not in the surface reading of an ostensibly-ideological activity and its explicit messages, but in the very act of enjoyment as a contrast to productivity and the implicit ideology it breeds through instilling capitalistic guilt within our neoliberal subject formation.
The obvious cliché (seen from a thousand miles away) would be to say that this short monograph is enjoyable, but I do particularly have to commend it as a bite-sized introduction to psychoanalysis that, to my great surprise, makes it greatly enjoyable.
The obvious cliché (seen from a thousand miles away) would be to say that this short monograph is enjoyable, but I do particularly have to commend it as a bite-sized introduction to psychoanalysis that, to my great surprise, makes it greatly enjoyable.