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Blindness by José Saramago
leest echt heel vlot, nadat je de schrijfstijl gewoon wordt, maar ik moest me er wel doorheen worstelen omdat ik echt misselijk en triest van werd. einde was beter dan ik had verwacht. not spiralling thank u saramago
SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas
4.0
This was a WILD ride. Solanas was off the rails, but sometimes she does make some good points. I don't really agree with most of it, especially the violent killing of men, or the absolute categorisation of the gender binary that she makes (+ the idea of men just wanting to be women because women are superior). It's an interesting read, though. The intro was also a good way to be prepared for the manifesto. It's also interesting to read as a very ironic antithesis of many male manifestos (which I assume was the point she was making?)
We Are All Very Anxious by Institute for Precarious Consciousness
4.0
Very accessible and concise read! It analyses the affect each stage of capitalism has from its start until now: misery (early stages) to boredom (around the 60's to the 90's) and now anxiety. These affects are felt by almost everyone who works under capitalism (in the global north) & is a public secret - until people decide to work together to revolt against it. The problem with anxiety is that it keeps people too stressed & anxious because of precarity to actually mobilise and do something to change it.
Ecology and Revolutionary Thought with The Ecology Action East Manifesto and Toward an Ecological Solution by Murray Bookchin
4.0
"This rejection of the prevailing state of affairs accounts, I think, for the explosive growth of intuitive anarchism among young people today. Their love of nature is a reaction against the highly synthetic qualities of our urban environment and its shabby products. Their informality of dress and manners is a reaction against the formalized, standardized nature of modern institutionalized living. Their predisposition for direct action is a reaction against the bureaucratization and centralization of society. Their tendency to drop out, to avoid toil and the rat-race, reflects a growing anger toward the mindless industrial routine bred by modern mass manufacture in the factory, the office, or the university. Their intense individualism is, in its own elemental way, a de facto decentralization of social life — a personal abdication from mass society."
Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories by Peggy Phelan
4.0
very dense and hard to work through with close to no background in psychoanalysis but nevertheless a good brain workout! about grief, mourning, death, performance and temporal art forms (cinema, theatre)
Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara
5.0
I would recommend this to everyone! It's a super short & easy read (very accessible language, repeats key ideas), about 50 pages. The way Sankara talks about women's struggle in relation to class struggle is an essential idea that is often forgotten or overlooked by male progressives or revolutionaries. It's in part specifically targeted towards the women of Burkina Faso, but at the same time contains a universal struggle.
"The genuine emancipation of women is that which entrusts responsibilities to them and involves them in productive activity and in the different struggles the people face. Women's genuine emancipation is one that exacts men's respect and consideration. Emancipation, like freedom, is not granted but conquered. It is for women themselves to put forward their demands and mobilize to win them.
For that, the democratic and popular revolution will create the necessary conditions to allow Voltaic women to realize themselves fully and completely. After all, would it be possible to eliminate the system of exploitation while maintaining the exploitation of women, who make up more than half our society?"
"The genuine emancipation of women is that which entrusts responsibilities to them and involves them in productive activity and in the different struggles the people face. Women's genuine emancipation is one that exacts men's respect and consideration. Emancipation, like freedom, is not granted but conquered. It is for women themselves to put forward their demands and mobilize to win them.
For that, the democratic and popular revolution will create the necessary conditions to allow Voltaic women to realize themselves fully and completely. After all, would it be possible to eliminate the system of exploitation while maintaining the exploitation of women, who make up more than half our society?"
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
5.0
super short story but def worth the read!! tumbling into an existential crisis reading this whilst also reading Sapiens