And, likewise, mechanic, automated, inhuman, derivative.

Love this review, and glad to see it also bring in @bernarddionysius.bsky.social, whose _Code_ deeply shaped my thinking about the history of cultural theory.

If you put these two books together, I think it makes a very coherent story about where theory came from and why we need it right now.

I love this thread. In a similar vein, Hans-Georg Gadamer: "When you take a word in your mouth you must realize that you have not taken a tool that can be thrown aside if it will not do the job, but you are fixed in a direction of thought that comes from afar and stretches beyond you."

Thanks for this generous reading, Robin!

spilling bong water on the rug is definitely a violation of the entire system of binaries that make dorm life with a roommate barely manageable

the structuralism? yeah, it's def a gateway theory