Paul's Reviews > Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895-1945

Recommended to me by an academician friend/commie who knows the author. The content seemed really interesting but right when I'd start getting into a story or a vignette, the author would go so Karl Marxie on me that I felt like I was reading from one of those post-modernist auto-generating websites (apologies to any pomos offended by that statement). I'd sometimes take pictures of pages and post em up on the Facebooks to be mocked by my ignoramus friends and me. How we would howl! The only thing we hate more than communists are ones that can't express their views to the uninitiated! Maybe if your doctrine were more accessible to we proletariat things would have gone better for your little social project. :(

If sentences like "living biopower provides systemic dynamism, while universality grants identity and logothetic rationality to dynamic life" fills you with an overwhelming urge to pick up a spade and smash a cultural artifact, then you MUST buy this book. But for me, if anyone can produce a version of this book that isn't the equivalent of a kimono-clad hipster doing a shred guitar version of Gosudarstvenny Gimn SSSR, I'd really like to read it.