Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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-- TIMESTAMPS --
0:00 intro
1:47 anti-intellectualism on booktok
3:08 hello baby
25:13 kallocain
57:34 library books and my own books
1:09:45 movies
1:18:53 outro

-- BOOK WISHLIST --
Instead of an amazon wishlist I buy books at my local book stores, so if you'd like to get me one you can do so via my Kofi page (ko-fi.com/theartisangeek) and leave a message about which book you'd like me to get.
1. Simone Weil An Anthology (11 euros)
2. Independent People by Halldór Laxness (13 euros)
3. Crisis by Karin Boye (21 euros)

-- BOOKS MENTIONED* --
Representations of the Intellectual
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781804272244/?a_aid=TAG

Hello Baby
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780593734896/?a_aid=TAG

Engagement
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780241688137/?a_aid=TAG

Dead Astronauts
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780374276805/?a_aid=TAG

Animal Farm
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780141036137/?a_aid=TAG

1984
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781784878979/?a_aid=TAG

Brave New World
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780099477464/?a_aid=TAG

Island
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780099477778/?a_aid=TAG

Darkness at Noon
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780099424918/?a_aid=TAG

Fahrenheit 451
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product//9780007491568/?a_aid=TAG

Women Running in the Mountains
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781681375977/?a_aid=TAG

Of Dogs and Walls
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780241339787/?a_aid=TAG

The Right to Sex
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781526612540/?a_aid=TAG


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-- MOVIES MENTIONED --
Rental Family
letterboxd.com/film/rental-family-2025

Winter in Chokcho
letterboxd.com/film/winter-in-sokcho

-- REVIEWS MENTIONED --
No Longer Human
youtube.com/watch?v=nY6dJgn_xgE

The Setting Sun
youtube.com/watch?v=-M4UlBNL9xc

-- ARTICLES READ --
FRANCE 24 South Korea: Where feminism has become taboo
youtube.com/watch?v=avZqiUXVPIM

In the country with the world's lowest birth rate, fertility clinics are booming
bbc.com/news/articles/c20wg50l563o

Two is already too many
worksinprogress.co/issue/two-is-already-too-many

Women’s Career Interruptions and the Declining Fertility Rate in South Korea
https://www.kdi.re.kr/eng/research/focusView?pub_no=18386

Women in South Korea Are on Strike Against Being ‘Baby-Making Machines’
nytimes.com/2023/01/27/opinion/south-korea-fertility-rate-feminism.html

‘Coupledom is very oppressing': Swedish author Gun-Britt Sundström on the revival of her cult anti-marriage novel
theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/20/coupledom-is-very-oppressing-swedish-author-gun-britt-sundstrom-on-the-revival-of-her-cult-anti-marriage-novel

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