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Random Acts of Senseless Violence - The center cannot hold
Manage episode 268181851 series 2762828
We talk about Jack Womack's "Random acts of senseless violence" - a "minute into the future" dystopia told from the perspective of a 12 year old girl. It's gritty and depressing, just our speed.
Topics include:
- How this is a horror story for the Bourgeois
- The atomization of daily life
- Hobbesian themes
- Derrida and the duality between center and periphery
- The merits of a political book with no obvious villain
- The violence/mundanity barrier
30 episodes
Manage episode 268181851 series 2762828
We talk about Jack Womack's "Random acts of senseless violence" - a "minute into the future" dystopia told from the perspective of a 12 year old girl. It's gritty and depressing, just our speed.
Topics include:
- How this is a horror story for the Bourgeois
- The atomization of daily life
- Hobbesian themes
- Derrida and the duality between center and periphery
- The merits of a political book with no obvious villain
- The violence/mundanity barrier
30 episodes
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