they shld bring back literary criticism that is Marxist

just fulfilled my teenage dream of publishing w/ The New Inquiry? many many thanks to Ayesha A. Siddiqi and Anna Aguiar-Kosicki

'Her prescriptions rely on the thin premise that there is a unitary act called sex, a denial of the possibility that any sex between any two (or three or four or more) involves new negotiations of preferences and practices.'

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Manon Garcia, whose recent book, The Joy of Consent: a Philosophy of Good Sex (October 2023) asks if consent could be retooled to serve the ideal of “good sex,” sex which is not only pleasurable, but also “a moral good.” by sohum, for now 𓅖 thenewinquiry.com/the-job-of-con…

What a thoughtful and critical grappling with the limits of the growing embrace of consent as both a necessary tool and magical form of communing that can produce desirable or fulfilling intimate encounters

Compelling review by Sohum Pal that touches on the limitations of consent in the labor it is asked to “do” and the epistemic questions involved (which Guerrero has addressed).

English has not begun imagining the Palestinian speaking, let alone understanding Palestinian silence. - Fady Joudah to Boris Dralyuk

When It Takes Root in the Heart: A Conversation with Fady Joudah – The New Inquiry thenewinquiry.com/when-it-takes-…

There is a solidarity whose horizon is assimilation, and there is a solidarity whose horizon is liberation. The former is hierarchical to those it is in solidarity with. The latter is in community with them ... It names those it loves. - Fady Joudah thenewinquiry.com/when-it-takes-…

This is one of the best essays I've read in *forever*. I clicked because I've long been obsessed by the character of Betty Draper; what I found was something searingly close to the bone. The New Inquiry
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“Garcia follows MacKinnon for the proposition that consent is only concerned with reconfiguring the accommodation of inequality as personal freedom” sohum, for now 𓅖 reviews The Joy of Consent thenewinquiry.com/the-job-of-con…

“Legal proceedings tend to collapse the full inquiry of what made a situation rape (an analysis of power, partners’ relative freedom, welcomeness) into an inquiry about consent.” thenewinquiry.com/the-job-of-con…

The Joy of Consent: a Philosophy of Good Sex tests the limits of consent as a heuristic for 'good sex', exposing the wide berth between pleasure and what is legible to the law. thenewinquiry.com/the-job-of-con…

“In sex as elsewhere, consent is asked to do a lot.”
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We are so proud of this special issue on Palestine & hope it provides some measure of the politics, history, & solidarity needed to support any liberation movement in its quest for freedom. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸 twitter.com/HammerandHope/…

'...there is a solidarity whose horizon is assimilation, and there is a solidarity whose horizon is liberation...The former is hierarchical...The latter is citational. It names those it loves. ' - Fady Joudah thenewinquiry.com/when-it-takes-…