Reviews

Baedan 1: Journal of Queer Nihilism by Various, Baedan

rantingsandravings's review

challenging reflective medium-paced

5.0

mad_taylh's review

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

"We are not against the 'normals,' but against 'normal' society." (Guy Hocquenghem)

just_adam's review

informative

3.0

williamzzengg's review

3.0

"when will be able to shatter the power of words by the movement of our skins?"

There are moments where this collection of words truly spoke to me: the fallibility of language, the domestication of all life by capital. Are we all dead, and is a new human being waiting to emerge from our corpses?

There are moments where I've learned things, but that's probably not the best relationship to have with this book: the embrace of pure negativity, being against society and all politics. Perhaps we should all live in the present and give up all hope in the future.

And finally, there are moments. LIKE WHAT THE HECK I DON'T UNDERSTAND TIME AT ALL. But maybe I'll understand it one day.

why don't we fear death?

suitepea's review

5.0

This helps to put this whole year in perspective, not in the sense that it was an anomaly, but precisely because it was another brick in a crumbling tower of sustainability and infrastructure. If that sounds horrible and hopeless, there's actually a reason to see this as an opportunity to live proudly. As this book states in the first few pages:

"our task is infinite, not because we have so much to build but because we have an entire world to destroy"