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cmbooks8's review
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
2.0
An ironic and odd take on aesthetics written by a "better than thou" author who goes so far as to quip more than once about how superior her moral compass is, then bashing on her peers for enjoying "crude" art (page 60). Her arguments are coherent but clearly and irreparably bias, refusing to even consider another view as having a relevant point, occasionally taking her adversaries (Francis Bacon, Nietzsche, and others) quotes out of context to benefit her own argument. Her arguments are also full of an irony that she stands against shock horror as a form of desensitization, but she is entirely okay with randomly inserting detailed references to torture in sections where, frankly, it was uncalled for.
I must hand it to Nelson, her writing is intriguing, and despite disagreeing with practically every point she made, I was engaged. It read with the equal power and view (but opposite reasoning) as the work of an Evangelical preacher. It was very upfront, and at times disrespectful, about the author's beliefs, and all in all it read as the equivalent of being screamed at over a phone call for having a different opinion.
I must hand it to Nelson, her writing is intriguing, and despite disagreeing with practically every point she made, I was engaged. It read with the equal power and view (but opposite reasoning) as the work of an Evangelical preacher. It was very upfront, and at times disrespectful, about the author's beliefs, and all in all it read as the equivalent of being screamed at over a phone call for having a different opinion.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Death, and Torture
Moderate: Islamophobia
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