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Description: Includes feature stories, author interviews, reviews, columns, and a weblog of book-related content.
Bookslut | Issue 140 | January 2014 The phrase "semantic polarities" could be profitably switched out for the drama of becoming, because this is what Ugazio describes. Everyone wants not only to acquire certain material or sensual benefits but also to become the sort of person who would acquire these benefits, and to be seen as this precise sort of person in the eyes of others. An apartment in a rich neighborhood, an enviable spouse, a job conferring high income and prestige -- all of these are in a sense only decoration, or the material manifestation of the metaphysical desideratum -- to become a "winner" in life. But why did that child grow up wanting to be a winner? People from a certain walk of life might assume that this aspiration is universal and those who deny it are just trying to rationalize their lifetime of loss. But this isn't accurate. The semantics of goodness, power, independence, and belonging suggest entirely different shapes to a desirable life. What's frightening is the essential arbitrariness of these goals.
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| Page title: | Bookslut | Issue 140 | January 2014 |
| Keywords: | books, reviews, interviews, columns, literary fiction, literature, comic books, great books |
| Description: | Book reviews, interviews, columns, and musings. |
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