carlin
my rating stands for this specific version of the book as my rating of the manifesto itself would be +.5.
I read the manifesto first (I think it should come first in the book) and I really enjoyed it. It's very funny and provocative and it's plain nice to read something not tempered by like 12 million imagined counter arguments. It not something that I feel I can seriously engage with as it's very literally radical feminist, in believing that gender is the pre-eminent issue, and as a communist I don't think this is productive. However it is super engaging and feels very nutritious for the brain in how it constantly folds in on itself.
The essay is good, but it's a lot more poetically/aesthetically involved than I would've expected. I thought it would be disentangling how serious Solanos is, and how best to interpret, but it appears that Ronell takes her at her word and we should interpret the manifesto without any irony, levity, etc. Personally I feel that part of Solanos is just having pure fun, and that this was her working out her frustrations in a productive way
my rating stands for this specific version of the book as my rating of the manifesto itself would be +.5.
I read the manifesto first (I think it should come first in the book) and I really enjoyed it. It's very funny and provocative and it's plain nice to read something not tempered by like 12 million imagined counter arguments. It not something that I feel I can seriously engage with as it's very literally radical feminist, in believing that gender is the pre-eminent issue, and as a communist I don't think this is productive. However it is super engaging and feels very nutritious for the brain in how it constantly folds in on itself.
The essay is good, but it's a lot more poetically/aesthetically involved than I would've expected. I thought it would be disentangling how serious Solanos is, and how best to interpret, but it appears that Ronell takes her at her word and we should interpret the manifesto without any irony, levity, etc. Personally I feel that part of Solanos is just having pure fun, and that this was her working out her frustrations in a productive way