Richard Seymour Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Richard Seymour

This is very sad. Among Ehrenreich’s excellent books, possibly the best and most surprising is Living With a Wild God. Her critique of positive thinking in Bright-Sided, is also compulsory. https://t.co/JHBY3C6biQ

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@bakersunday I’d start with Eva Meijer, Animal Languages; and Eva Meijer, When Animals Speak.

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In the spirit of this, some books that I've found useful for writing: Samuel Delany, 'About Writing' Emma Piccioli et al, 'Writing in Psychoanalysis' Virginia Tufte, 'Artful Sentences' Joe Moran, 'First You Write a Sentence' June Casagrande, 'It was the best of sentences' https://t.co/1ILiSF0FQd

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@iwasid I don’t think it’s anything so blunt. I would say it partly has to do with the overriding priorities of those elected (cf Robert Michels on political parties and the law of oligarchy), and the structured resistance of the state to radical political change (cf Poulantzas).

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Although, I'll be honest, I got a lot out of Natalie Goldberg's benignly crackers 'Writing Down the Bones'. But not because it taught me anything about how to write.

Richard Seymour

(Incidentally, if you want to understand the nature of the conservative politics driving Clarence Thomas in this, you need to read Corey Robin’s essential book, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas.)

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Francine Prose, 'Reading Like a Writer' Nancy Welch, 'Getting Restless' Mark Bracher, 'The Writing Cure' Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' Henry M Seiden, 'The Motive for Metaphor'

Richard Seymour

This is very sad. Among Ehrenreich’s excellent books, possibly the best and most surprising is Living With a Wild God. Her critique of positive thinking in Bright-Sided, is also compulsory. https://t.co/JHBY3C6biQ

Richard Seymour

Some interesting reflections on GIDS and trans healthcare, deploying Miranda Fricker’s concept of “epistemic injustice”. https://t.co/WjwmnVDnyl

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"The body which, as Walt Whitman said, ‘balks account’. The sudden porosity of its boundaries: fiery atoms quietly flying through us. Here is an ‘original relationship to the universe’ of the kind that Emerson sought. Not in Arcadia, but on the threshold of something terrible."

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