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Amia Srinivasan: belief

22 Sept 2021 Conversations with Tyler Amia Srinivasan on Utopian Feminism

“I think if it’s useful dramatization of that important observation, then it’s useful, but I would have to reread some Sade to be able to comment any further.”

— Amia Srinivasan

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Amia Srinivasan
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belief
Recorded
22 Sept 2021
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…You could argue he sees there’s something wrong with the Enlightenment or liberal understanding of desire, and that it actually leads to untenable places. Or are we reading too much into him? No, I think that’s an interesting reading. I’m not very preoccupied by the question of what his intentions were. I think if it’s useful dramatization of that important observation, then it’s useful, but I would have to reread some Sade to be able to comment any further. Why does Walt Whitman interest you?…

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