How Long to Read Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries

How Long Does it Take to Read Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 50 minutes to read Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries by Joseph Natoli

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A story of self, braided to a story of American culture. Uniting personal history with cultural history, Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries tells a story of a mind, a time, and a culture. The vehicle or medium of this excursion is an overview and sampling of the author’s work, and what is revealed are cautionary tales of a once-aspiring egalitarian democracy confronted with plutocracy’s gentrification; of analog history and off-line life superseded by a rush toward virtualized, robotic, AI transformation of the human life-world; of everything social and public giving way to everything personal and opinionated. The vagaries of a lifetime of paths taken are woven together by a narrative that reveals in every piece a significance that was only partially present at its initial writing. Thus, the reader becomes involved in a developing story of a certain personal psyche working toward understanding its own development within a changing American culture. Sometimes angry, sometimes joyful, but always curious and wry, Joseph Natoli crosses the boundary lines of psychology, politics, literature, philosophy, education, and economics to show how we bring ourselves and our cultural imaginaries simultaneously into being through the processes and pleasures of thinking beyond the confines of the personal. “Reading Dark Affinities is a welcome break from the neoliberal buzzword-speak of politicians and university administrators. It reminds me why I entered academia, when it was a profession and not a business, and when modeling thinking actually mattered.” — Alison Lee, University of Western Ontario “Natoli’s Dark Affinities reads as a culminating work of scholarship, marshaling evidence from autobiography, literary analysis, critical theory, and everyday culture in support of its claims. Natoli presents his personal history in the same spirit that Raymond Williams did: as evidence for the ways that cultural forces shape individuals, and as grounds for the shaping of his intellectual and political practice.” — Jeff Karnicky, author of Contemporary Fiction and the Ethics of Modern Culture

How long is Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries?

Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries by Joseph Natoli is 398 pages long, and a total of 102,684 words.

This makes it 134% the length of the average book. It also has 125% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 21 minutes to read Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries aloud.

What Reading Level is Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries?

Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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