It's a been a while since I read a book in only a few days ☺️
Now where's the second part?
Hi I'm Jules,
I read a lot of disability related more academic stuff and then mostly queer fantasy, science fiction / speculative fiction to relax.
I read mostly e-books for accessibility reasons. So if you're interested in a book on my lists, just send me a DM. I can point you to sources or just send it over.
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75% complete! Jules, reading has read 9 of 12 books.
The Emperor is Dead. Long live the Emperor. Lin Sukai finally sits on the throne she won at so much …
There's a sequel and while I had mixed feelings about the book along the way, I really wanna know how the story evolves. I liked many things about this book, but it was a bit boring at times with all the political maneuvers. The style made up for it, because you have to think along to get things, so I never turned my brain off completely 😅
I was as indifferent to human gender as it was possible to be without being unconscious.
— System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
Dabei kommt es schon einmal vor, dass Bhabha seine Quellen radikal verbiegt, um seine Argumentation zu entwickeln – eine Methode, die nicht unangemessen ist, wird damit doch eine explizit postkoloniale Strategie verfolgt, in der es darum geht, die Erzählungen des Westens mithilfe anderer Perspektiven zu verstellen – und nicht zu verstehen. Bhabha nimmt das dekonstruktive Diktum beim Wort, demzufolge jede Textinter- pretation notwendigerweise Elemente eines »falschen Lesens« beherbergt, und er- weitert damit den subversiven Akt des »Neu-Schreibens« (re-writing, Moore-Gilbert 1997: 115) metropolitaner literarischer Texte.
— Postkoloniale Theorie by María do Mar Castro Varela, Nikita Dhawan (Page 231)
Geschickt kombiniert Spivak hier die artikulierte »Bürde des weißen Mannes« (the white man’s burden), ein Gedicht von Rudyard Kipling, mit der darwinistischen Vorstellung des »Überleben des Stärkeren« (survival of the fittest) und formt daraus »die Bürde des Stärkeren« (burden of the fittest). Zum Ausdruck kommt damit die zur Schau gestellte eigene Überlegenheit, die Länder des globalen Nordens glauben macht, sie seien unwei- gerlich dazu verpflichtet, die Menschenrechtsverletzungen im globalen Süden zu richten und entsprechend über diese Gericht zu sitzen. Dass der Westen sich unhinterfragt berufen fühlt, das Unrecht im globalen Süden anzuklagen, stellt eine erstaunliche Umkehrung der Geschichte dar – schließlich war es der globale Norden, der Territorien annektierte, Rohstoffe ausbeutete und die Bevölkerungen der kolonisierten Länder über Jahrhunderte unterwarf. Es ist insoweit politisch klug, die historische Amnesie des Westens zu fokussieren – eine Geschichtsvergessenheit, die den globalen Norden weiterhin in dem Glauben lässt, er sei moralisch dazu verpflichtet, den Unterjochten in den postkolonialen Räumen zur Hilfe zu eilen.
— Postkoloniale Theorie by María do Mar Castro Varela, Nikita Dhawan (Page 218)
The woman had all the subtlety of the spring floods. One saw them coming and could only brace against their force.
— The Mask of Mirrors by M. A. Carrick (Rook & Rose, #1)
Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by …
Yet I want to end this chapter by suggesting that perhaps the ultimate fantasy of education in these films, and in popular culture, is that learn-ing itself has a predictable narrative arc or sequential chronology, that it takes place across normate time, across campuses that we will always be at home in, or will always be recognizable to us— and that this narra-tive somehow makes us all more able (even slowly, through the gradual progression of “positive eugenics”). Instead of seeing education as a pro-cess of accumulation and realization, transfer, continuity, coherence, or progression, maybe it is a process of recursion, forgetting, simultaneity, regression, chaos. My hope is that we can refocus on the failures and refusals sometimes driving, sometimes ghosting, these films. This chap-ter itself is a montage, a supercut, a dream sequence, a series of flash-backs, and at a certain point this is how we all experience any film— or any learning.
— Academic Ableism by Jay T Dolmage (Page 181)