Link for the curious: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/moby-dick-9780198853695?cc=us&lang=en

Wait, is this a joke?

Now that the jig is up for groomers putting literal pornography in kid's libraries, they're going to do it by rewriting classics.

I can get down with the message that only evil, raging faggots kill whales.

Oh, and Ahab was a fucking obsessive. :P

The author: https://www.hesterblum.com/about

Some of her other works: https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-news-at-the-ends-of-the-earth

Whether chronicling weather patterns or satirically reporting on penguin mischief, this writing provided expedition members with a set of practices to help them survive the perpetual darkness and harshness of polar winters. The extreme climates these explorers experienced is continuous with climate change today. Polar exploration writing, Blum contends, offers strategies for confronting and reckoning with the extreme environment of the present.

its queerness and its meditations on race, power, and disability

Naturally. This is how it's read now in university; never mind all that irrelevant stuff like the "colorless allcolor" of the void, immortality vs. existentialism, the validity of Biblical prophesy and other 19th-century philosophical concerns, megalomania, the vain idea of man in opposition to the natural world when one is an inextricable part of that world, etc.

No, no, all that universal stuff is passe and the vaporings of homophobic misogynistic white men. What's really important is the implied queer relationship between Queequeg and Ishmael and Ahab and Starbuck . . . what else but buggery is important during the Pequod's voyage, anyway, you homophobes?

This is what decadence looks like.

We are in the Kali Yuga and it is accelerating.