New criticism from Amelia Zhou, Angelita Biscotti, Aries Gacutan, Ian Rafael Ramirez, Nina Culley, Roumina Parsa, Sophie Chauhan & Tara Kenny.
“Whether a mere mortal or scorned prince, writing out of a burning desire to rebuke all those who have wronged you and to have the last, conclusive word is a Sisyphean task.”
“Our empathy, mundane joys, eruptive eros, and constructed language may dismantle oppressive modern/colonial systems. These are not survival tactics. Carlo asks where the dignity in pure survival tactics is; I respond, there is none.”
“Here arises the greatest weapon against the regime: the imagination as something it cannot control, the product of which is this very book expressing it.”
“Srinivasan persists in a philosophical approach that holds the love of a logically sound, elegantly composed argument as the highest value…”
“I suppose it is because alienation has a narrative cure—one that we can rehearse and resolve, over and over again. Oppression, by contrast, does not.”
“Dredge’s focus on the horror of the sublime is both its strength and its downfall, as it presents a colonial and survivalist relationship to nature, rather than centring humanity’s place in the wider ecosystem.”