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dngolden77.bsky.social
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Ideas matter - Posts focusing on Literature, philosophy, comics, music, graphics, and art (in no particular order).
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Rilke gave us some of humanity's most eternal poetry and, unbeknownst to most, the invention of the modern word "empathy" through his friendship with Rodin www.themarginalian.org/2016/12/14/y...
The Invention of Empathy: Rilke, Rodin, and the Art of “Inseeing”
How a doctor, a philosopher, a poet, and a sculptor co-created the modern concept of empathy.
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October 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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World’s Fairs: Spectacles Of Capital and Empire | Fall Courses | BISR NYC | buff.ly/fHq50pv
October 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Me during @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social Month at BF versus me the day after Thought Bubble Month at BF.

(From John Byrne's MAN OF STEEL Superman series)
Superman/Clark Kent being mobbed by a crowd after showing his powers in public for the first time. Superman/Clark Kent sitting in the dark at home distressed at a crowd all wanting "a piece of me".
October 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Paradise is Still Lost
My take on
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein
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Paradise is Still Lost
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein - A modern horror film masking as period piece
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October 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Gdt’s Frankenstein. Please see beautiful wrenching film on its too short big screen run. boxd.it/btHfdT
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#frankenstein
#deltorro
A ★★★★½ review of Frankenstein (2025)
Please watch this film in theaters during its limited release. It’s one of the most beautiful films I’ve seen in a while—both in its cinematography and staging, and in its storytelling. Its use of col...
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October 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Philosophy seems to address incomprehensible q only of interest to other academic philosophers&inaccessible to the ordinary inquirer. It seems to miss the point of the original philosophical urge&thus seems even more pointless than other arcane academic studies www.theideasletter.org/essay/bloodl...
“Bloodless Pedantry” - The Ideas Letter
The academic study of philosophy tends to inspire contempt, from within and from without. Stephen Hawking’s pompous pronouncement in 2010 that “philosophy is dead” is just one version of a…
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October 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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My review of Assorted Crisis Events Vol. 1
Writer: Eeniz Camp and Artist: Eric Zawadzki. Thought provoking classic Syfi around using time as metaphor. Wild Illustration.
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#graphicnovel
#comicbook
#sciencefiction
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Review by dngoldman - Assorted Crisis Events, Vol. 1
This graphic novel collects a series of science fiction stories centered around the titular “c...
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October 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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My review of volume 5 of Naoki Urasawa take on the classic Osamu story from the "Astro Boy" series. The underlying hatred between human and robot is chilling.
#booksky
#magnasky
#Urasawa

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Review by dngoldman - Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 5
I was looking back at my notes, and I’ve started out most reviews “this is the darkest volume ...
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October 16, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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My review of Michelle defroster's Theory & Practice. Despite the fine writing and interesting premise, I found the book's exploration of it ideas thin.
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#bookreview
#books2025
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David Goldman's review of Theory & Practice
3/5: Michelle de Kretser’s thoughtful new novel explores the boundaries between fact and fiction—the intersection between the beliefs we espouse and the way we act and feel. The narrator and her cohor...
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October 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Every bit as touching as you'd expect but it's also a coming of age for San Francisco and the gay life during the 70s/80s. Well worth it.
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#sanfranscisco
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October 13, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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This is such a cool comic and there's only 39 hours left to fund it!
brokenfrontier.bsky.social Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · Oct 9
Hey everyone! This amazing comic by @pigeonface.bsky.social really needs your help to get over the Kickstarter finish line. Kamila is one of the most exciting indie voices working in the UK and this totally deserves your support. Please back or spread the word! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pig...
The Ecstasy of Jenny D - New original comic by Pigeon!
Bridgerton meets the dancing plague in this surreal tale of sisterhood, repressed queerness and divine intervention.
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October 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Nails and Eyes is a haunting journey through the mind, where subtlety and tension dance elegantly. It invites readers to explore fear without the gore, revealing the beauty in darkness. #booksky #books
dngolden77.bsky.social dngolden77.bsky.social @dngolden77.bsky.social · Oct 8
My review of Kaori Fujino’s Nails and Eyes whose razor-sharp, lucid prose reveals the subtle dangers underlying this distinctive form of psychological horror. For those who like horror without too much blood and guts
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#bookreview
#japan
#horror
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Review by dngoldman - Nails and Eyes
Nails and Eyes Kaori Fujino’s Nails and Eyes contains a novella and two short stories whose r...
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October 8, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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My review of Kaori Fujino’s Nails and Eyes whose razor-sharp, lucid prose reveals the subtle dangers underlying this distinctive form of psychological horror. For those who like horror without too much blood and guts
#booksky
#bookreview
#japan
#horror
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Review by dngoldman - Nails and Eyes
Nails and Eyes Kaori Fujino’s Nails and Eyes contains a novella and two short stories whose r...
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October 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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My reflections on the Tractatus, in its excellent translation by Damion Searls. A work that is as wonderful as it is perplexing.
#philosophysky
#wittgenstein
#booksky
#bookreview
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Review by dngoldman - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: A New Translation
Rarely have I enjoyed so much a work that I understood so little of. Wittgenstein himself does...
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October 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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My review of Tom Scioli's artistic throwback comic Space Opera Xanadax. Somewhere Jack Kirby is smiling.
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#comicbooks
#graphicnovel
Review by dngoldman - Space Opera Xanadax Across the Unknown Dimensions of the Galaxy
Scioli takes his passion for Lee/Kirby (especially Kirby) era comic books to a whole new level...
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October 6, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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I recently re-read W.G. Sebald’s last novel before his death, Austerlitz, in a class through the 92nd Street Y taught by Arendt scholar @samantharhill.bsky.social . Here are some reflections from 20 yrs ago and today.
#Booksky
#bookreview
#sebald
#jewish
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Review by dngoldman - Austerlitz
I recently re-read W.G. Sebald’s last novel before his death, Austerlitz, in a class through t...
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October 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Rabbi Rena Singer on polarization. youtu.be/GwMYQ6Tfndg?...
#highholydays
#RoshHasShanahSermons
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Rabbi Rena Singer - Rosh HaShanah 2025 Sermon
YouTube video by Congregation Emanu-El
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September 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Hannah Arendt, writing in 1951 as if about today, on loneliness as the common ground for terror and isolation as a weapon of oppression www.themarginalian.org/2016/12/20/h...
Hannah Arendt on Loneliness as the Common Ground for Terror and How Tyrannical Regimes Use Isolation as a Weapon of Oppression
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi… but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between t…
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September 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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My review of Spike Lee's take on Highest to Lowest. Some interesting elements but pretty uneven.
#filmsky
#moviewreview
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A ★★★ review of Highest 2 Lowest (2025)
I watched Spike Lee’s new version of the Kurosawa classic. While it’s hard not to compare it to the original, I tried to take the film on its own terms. That effort was made easier by the fact that my...
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September 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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My review of the last book of Jeff VanerMeer's masterpiece Southern Reach trilogy. A thought providing very weird end. app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/01c9...
#booksky
#bookreview
#Vanermeer
#southernreach
Review by dngoldman - Acceptance
Acceptance, the third book in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, weaves together the c...
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September 24, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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My review of Kurosawa ‘s existential tragic-comedy. letterboxd.com/dngolden77/f...

#filmsky
#Kurosawa
#japan
A review of Ikiru (1952)
This Kuroswa masterpiece is loosely based on Tolstoy’s Death of Ivan Ilyach. Like Tolstoy’s short novel, the Kurosawa film focuses on burocrat who has a mysterious illness. about a bureaucrat who work...
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September 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Reading the Iliad | Fall Courses | BISR Online | buff.ly/sVFhc7W
September 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Faculty Writing | Joseph Earl Thomas, in Virginia Quarterly Review, on playing Pokémon | buff.ly/NFzkEMe
August 31, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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My review of Kurosawa's High and Low. A tense morally ambiguous contemporary police procedural.
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#kurosawa
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A ★★★★ review of High and Low (1963)
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August 31, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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My review of @agcallard.bsky.social Open Socrates. By the end, my first impulse was to pick up any of Plato’s books I have around and keep reading—and to find someone to read with!
#booksky
#philosophysky
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Review by dngoldman - Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
“What I don’t advise is that we remain as we are.” — Laches The above quote from Socrates, the...
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August 31, 2025 at 5:40 AM