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tdwightdavis's review against another edition
1.0
I already hated this and then I got to the part where Chen was like “vaccines cause autism” and that made me loathe it. I need queer theorists to touch grass and I say this as someone who studied that shit in grad school.
clementinemorrigan's review against another edition
4.0
Wonderfully cross-disciplinary. Rich analysis.
jenna0010's review against another edition
5.0
This is my second read of this fantastic book and gosh it still holds up. How bodies, human/nonhuman, racialized, gendered, queer, toxic, are mapped into biopolitical categories of liveliness, of animality, of disposability, waste... Just so much is opened up here- her "feral archive" of toxic children's toys made in China and oil spills, of "sticky" words and representations of "yellow peril". The string of questions that work horizontally to name, unravel, but leave leaky and generative in the possibilities for thinking, activisim, and being in the world that this project offers.
readingwithaddi's review against another edition
challenging
informative
tense
slow-paced
4.0
Interesting book. Hard to get through because of jargon and complex concepts. Good examples that attempted to ground the theory.
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