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Finish The Art of Cruelty and start Braiding Sweetgrass

I‘m currently reading Lessons in Chemistry and want to finish that, and start Acting Class.

Maggie Nelson works magic. This book disabused me of many of my undergraduate pretensions and preoccupations. Not that I don‘t like a lot of the art and artists that she takes to task, like Artaud, it‘s just that I never bothered to ask myself the seemingly simple question of why and how is cruelty somehow deep and primordial as opposed to say, love?

#listeningto this via #scribe. Interesting listening

Been listening/reading to this of and on for about at week and have been struggling. The narrator is overdoing it so much I can't hear what she's saying past her forced musicality. It's completely wrong for the topic. Will probably switch to pbk as I keep wanting to highlight and make notes anyway.

I‘m not sure I have the exact words to express what I think of this work. It will take me some time to process. A reread (on paper) may one day be necessary to better grapple with her ideas.

More academic/less personal than Bluets or The Argonauts, but still personal. A familiarity with modern/contemporary art (especially performance art) is recommended, though this work spans so much more than that.

I am not yet done with Maggie Nelson (this time on #audio)

Maggie Nelson deserves only the most carefully composed Litsy post.

"Often I think people ask these questions because they are afraid that there is no drive that, when pushed to its outer limits, does not invite or at least graze its extinction."