Harassment Architecture – Mike Ma – a review

A collection of thoughts, dreams, ideas and philosophies that barely adhere to a coherent progression. But that is not a negative. Part of the draw of this short book is the thrill of deciphering these fragmented sections.

Without having or needing a narrative, it is an engaging and obsessive read, partly in thanks to the occasionally bleak and breathtaking writing, and partly due to the intoxicating auto-dialogue.
This book can be read as one long and branching fever dream, that occasionally crests with shocking stark and cutting insights, and before you realize, its resumed its feverish creations.

The author repeatedly declares to not be taking himself seriously, while also taking himself very seriously. This leaves it up to you to decide the truthfulness of this statement. He obsesses over a fear of being perceived as pretentious, while countered with a claim of not caring regardless. This frustration me at times. I enjoying his radical perversions, but tired of his consistent double back and pussying out of his own fantasies. At times you want to scream “Do it ######”.

I’m not sure if the author really believes his writing to be shocking, or he intended to remove all shock value by over-saturating us with shock for the sake of shock. Maybe my bias and expectations coming to this book robbed me of my opportunity to find it shocking.

Perhaps the entire book is a long introduction to the very last passage. Perhaps the sometimes self-conscious narrative is wholely intentional and masterful. Perhaps he really is clumsily screaming into the void, daring someone to give him the push to Do It.

Regardless, it was an excellent read that deserves you’re own judgement.

Rating: 4 out of 5.

One thought on “Harassment Architecture – Mike Ma – a review

  1. Aha. How is that being a “Man of God”? This guy brags about banging all the hot sluts while decrying the death of the West yaddayaddayadda. Rather read Andy Nowicki, the only anti-sex author I am aware of so far. At least among contemporaries, the last great reactionary writer was surely Gómez Dávila. Some of his escolios regarding sexuality, this “slap in the face” (as Nowicki rightly calls and despises our origins):

    Sexual promiscuity is the tip society pays in order to appease its slaves.

    The most recent generations are particularly boring: believing in effect that they invented violence and sex, they copulate doctrinairely and doctrinairely kill.

    Modern man’s life oscillates between two poles: business and sex.

    The problem is not sexual repression, nor sexual liberation, but sex.

    To liberate man is to subject him to greed and sex.

    Sex does not solve even sexual problems.

    Modern society is abolishing prostitution through promiscuity.

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