Rowan Fortune
Audiobook Reviews
I have recently acquired a subscription to Audible, and below are a smattering of audiobooks I have listened to over the past few days....
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Rowan Fortune
- Feb 4
- 11 min
Queering Everybody Part II
Review, Holly Lewis, 'The Politics of Everybody', part two. The goal of this book is the development of an internationalist and...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jan 28
- 12 min
Queering Everybody I
Review, Holly Lewis, 'The Politics of Everybody', part one. I write this in the hope of bringing four groups into dialogue: Marxist...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jan 21
- 5 min
Reading Deeply
Reading Jan Fortune's book, Writing Down Deep. I have no time for stories that lie. I don’t mean stories that are imaginary or...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jan 7
- 16 min
Goldmann's Wager
Review - Mitchell Cohen’s The Wager of Lucien Goldmann This was a Marxist who did not portray his aspirations for humanity’s future as an...
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Rowan Fortune
- Dec 31, 2022
- 4 min
Reading 2022
Looking back on a year of reading... We are not closed circuits, plastic wrapped—without words, things still speak to us, jolt us, free...
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Rowan Fortune
- Dec 24, 2022
- 5 min
The Materiality of Chainsaw Man
Review - Chainsaw Man I do not typically write reviews of animes on this blog, but I do have an overall fondness for the medium and...
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Rowan Fortune
- Nov 19, 2022
- 4 min
Cross-examining Nietzsche and Marx
Review: How to Philosophise with a Hammer and Sickle, Jonas Čeika Overcoming modernity requires not only understanding its economic...
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Rowan Fortune
- Oct 8, 2022
- 4 min
Reading as Meditation
Ritual, Habit, and Reading In an effort to reorganize aspects of my life (a cyclical endeavour as I am constantly tinkering with habits...
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Rowan Fortune
- Oct 1, 2022
- 5 min
Feminine Power
From Lilith to Mami Wata Depictions of the feminine are wrought with conflict over what is even meant by the word. The enculturation of...
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Rowan Fortune
- Sep 3, 2022
- 6 min
Queer Poetry
Reviews of three LGBTQ+ Poetry Books. Poetry is a form of writing well placed to capture the liminal, achieving this because poems are...
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Rowan Fortune
- Aug 6, 2022
- 5 min
Why so Political?
From Maverick to Star Trek, what is political? The word ‘political’ is frustratingly vague. Its usage, more than most words, is highly...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jul 30, 2022
- 3 min
Do Stars Have a Gender?
A look at two comic books and how they navigate gender, trauma and embodiment. The comic book medium has fewer restrictions than most...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jul 2, 2022
- 3 min
Dialogic Consciousness
From conversations to theory and art. In conversation, we can hold thoughts and reflect on problems sometimes for hours on end. This is...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jun 11, 2022
- 5 min
Thinking About Desks
A Journey Around my Desks, in the spirit of Xavier de Maistre I have now examined my desk more closely and have seen that nothing good...
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Rowan Fortune
- May 14, 2022
- 5 min
How Elden Ring Taught me to Love Games Again
Overcoming Perfectionism in Play Not since I was a teenager playing Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn has any computer game obsessed me as...
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Rowan Fortune
- Apr 23, 2022
- 5 min
A Radical Mask
On myths, masks, and a sensuous materialism. Despite the amount of academic reading and citations[…] it should also be remembered that...
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Rowan Fortune
- Apr 16, 2022
- 4 min
Films, Interrupted
On mobile phones, movie commentaries, Let’s Plays and channel hopping. Sometimes I neglect to write an essay because my thoughts on a...
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Rowan Fortune
- Apr 9, 2022
- 8 min
Resurrected Reloaded Revolutions, or, Please Stop
A Review of The Matrix Resurrections, a shrug of a film. At long last I found time to watch the newest addition to the Wachowskis’ Matrix...
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Rowan Fortune
- Mar 5, 2022
- 4 min
Mythology meets Horror in Elden Ring
an amateur gamer’s initial impressions It has been over a decade since Hidetaka Miyazaki took over the Demon’s Soul game and laid the...
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