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A review by sl4u
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City by Richard Sennett
medium-paced
2.0
i’m finally free!!!!!!!! (force finished this book b/c i spent money on it)
the type of book i don’t even want to donate or resell to a used bookstore, lest some other poor soul pick it up and decide to read it.
unsubstantial ramblings from a crotchety old cishet white man who can’t keep up with the times, exoticizing and doomerizing the unfamiliar while reminiscing rose-colored pasts. everything he likes is an “open system” and everything he dislikes is a “closed system”. and i guess a few decades ago, if you were respected enough as a white male intellectual in your own field, you were basically given free rein to say whatever you wanted about other fields you have little actual understanding of, and the audience would just stand back and clap adoringly. but it’s 2018 (2025). get with it.
also “ancient Chinese Shintoism” my fucking ass. shinto is a native japanese religion. get your fucking racist ass straight.
the type of book i don’t even want to donate or resell to a used bookstore, lest some other poor soul pick it up and decide to read it.
unsubstantial ramblings from a crotchety old cishet white man who can’t keep up with the times, exoticizing and doomerizing the unfamiliar while reminiscing rose-colored pasts. everything he likes is an “open system” and everything he dislikes is a “closed system”. and i guess a few decades ago, if you were respected enough as a white male intellectual in your own field, you were basically given free rein to say whatever you wanted about other fields you have little actual understanding of, and the audience would just stand back and clap adoringly. but it’s 2018 (2025). get with it.