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youtu.be/Xnw8WXRZbAM (as of 12/23/23) the Roy Avers performance (ripped from tape deck) is available on yt. A refreshing change of pace compared to modern voice stylings, very suited to the text.
It took being recommended this book for years before I opened it. The last straw was hearing about its appearance on Shelved By Genre (podcast) rangedtouch.com/shelved-by-genre/ very very worth having some podcast fellows to think about the themes with. Give it a chance.
A retelling. Typeset and printed in selfpublished booklet form, by me.
Print your own: subcreation.neocities.org/files/scorpiontest%202%20with%20gutter.pdf
I literally reread this thing weekly. Fantastic meditation on the nature of just-so stories and the variations on them that are ignored, and the interpretations that are 'incorrect'. The author does not have a lot of attachment to how popular this got, but I adore it (and so do many others).
Penguin Audiobooks version (Region locked to UK) Message me if you'd like the file :)
There's specifically a Penguin audiobook version, read by a voice actor who is recently famous from performing in a popular videogame. Here he is, what a nice man www.instagram.com/theo_solomon/
My marxist little heart was cheered to hear him say this was one of his favorite books to perform, a lot of his work is shitty genre novels SORRY. Anyway, for SOME reason, that particular penguin audiobook is region locked to the UK. I teleported over there and bought it and ripped the files to have a personal digital copy.
My end goal is to try to radicalize the fangirls a little bit by sharing it around my videogame forums. He's a really good reader! I find a lot of theory from this era really benefits from a performer as an audiobook reader, the author's emotional core shines through. If you would like a copy, reach out to me. :)
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There's specifically a Penguin audiobook version, read by a voice actor who is recently famous from performing in a popular videogame. Here he is, what a nice man www.instagram.com/theo_solomon/
My marxist little heart was cheered to hear him say this was one of his favorite books to perform, a lot of his work is shitty genre novels SORRY. Anyway, for SOME reason, that particular penguin audiobook is region locked to the UK. I teleported over there and bought it and ripped the files to have a personal digital copy.
My end goal is to try to radicalize the fangirls a little bit by sharing it around my videogame forums. He's a really good reader! I find a lot of theory from this era really benefits from a performer as an audiobook reader, the author's emotional core shines through. If you would like a copy, reach out to me. :)
Oh wait, about the book: the author is a psychologist. He explores how the way European (particularly French) education in their colonies creates a sense of racial inferiority in their colonial subjects, and that that dynamic is a deliberate political tool of empires. It's a fucking good book, the analysis goes from the most human-emotional to the largest scale of liberatory political action.
