lupetuple's reviews
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Incisive indictments of and calls to moving beyond Desire, gender, health… it’s short but illuminates many problems with body positivity and the myopia of self-love, how neither will lead to revolutionary consciousness or praxis.

The relentless misogyny pisses me off but I’d love to see certain scenes onstage. The language and wordplay are fun, as well, and the interrogation into what constitutes “Spirit” or “Understanding” to invoke Hegel, but I can’t stand the suffering piled onto Gretchen as a vehicle for Faust’s enlightenment.

Interesting forays into transforming negative affects to potential collective and individual liberation, as grounds for acknowledging and resisting injustice and oppression. Happiness as banal is a concept I’d like to reflect upon, because I don’t think it is quite so simple, for all that it’s championed as an “ideal” state of being.

Probably one of the most important books I’ll read in my life, introducing me to a man who makes me feel like life as I am and want to be is possible.

The only self-help book you need to read. Abolish the family as reference and origin points!

The man does it again, though I wish I hadn’t been reminded about Tumblr nonsense at all. The sections on moralism around media consumption also struck me as an issue that concerns mostly hyperonline people active on certain social media platforms (like Tumblr), so I didn’t care for their inclusion.

The book resonated with me especially as a fellow gay trans man. I appreciate how he related his experiences because I tend to feel like an anomaly compared to other trans men.

It does get repetitive, but the sentiments are pertinent in this increasingly hypermoralist, consumerist, and myopically individualistic period in history.