![]() ![]() ![]() Nelson has had a steady career as a critic, though her readership exploded with “ The Argonauts” largely for its confessional content and the liquid manner in which her personal narrative slid in around Nelson’s theory on gender and parenthood. “On Freedom” tests this very stance: rather than define freedom in exact terms or declare what it is for, Nelson moves through knots of ideology on freedom via “songs” of art, sex, drugs, and climate, drawing conclusions - some wild, some that readers might find regressive - that obliterate the binary of freedom vs. In “Drug Fugue,” the third of four “songs” that make up Maggie Nelson’s “ On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint,” Nelson quotes philosopher Brian Massumi: “Freedom always arises from constraint - it’s a creative conversion of it, not some utopian escape from it.” Freedom, Nelson suggests here and elsewhere in the book, is not achieved by getting out and leaving behind but rather staying with and moving through. Maggie Nelson is the author of “On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint.” harry dodge ![]()
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