Mary Beard lecture in Geneva last night about the derangement of the senses licensed by autocracy.
October 31, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Mary Beard lecture in Geneva last night about the derangement of the senses licensed by autocracy.
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“One detects a writer who has finally lost patience with Americans’ persistent failure to understand the obvious consequences of their own country’s actions.” Richard Beck on Thomas Pynchon’s SHADOW TICKET.
yalereview.org/article/rich...
yalereview.org/article/rich...
Richard Beck: “Thomas Pynchon Is Angry”
In Shadow Ticket , the novelist takes on America’s indifference to history
yalereview.org
October 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“One detects a writer who has finally lost patience with Americans’ persistent failure to understand the obvious consequences of their own country’s actions.” Richard Beck on Thomas Pynchon’s SHADOW TICKET.
yalereview.org/article/rich...
yalereview.org/article/rich...
The scathing review can't say "genocide" though. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Review | In her new book, Biden’s former press secretary lets Democrats have it
Karine Jean-Pierre’s memoir offers a critique of Biden and the Democrats that is outdated, impractical and driven more by personal grievance than policy.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The scathing review can't say "genocide" though. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Getting to 10,000 words, slapping "A Novel" on it, and then it's a novel. A novel is 10,000 words.
October 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Getting to 10,000 words, slapping "A Novel" on it, and then it's a novel. A novel is 10,000 words.
"Psyop" is a thinner term than "slop" these days.
October 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
"Psyop" is a thinner term than "slop" these days.
Clean, severe Geneva just got its first graffiti. Classic stuff.
October 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Clean, severe Geneva just got its first graffiti. Classic stuff.
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shout out to the major English-lang. newspaper that wanted me to write something about Krasznahorkai but ghosted me when I said I would need to be paid something
October 20, 2025 at 9:40 AM
shout out to the major English-lang. newspaper that wanted me to write something about Krasznahorkai but ghosted me when I said I would need to be paid something
Of course you'd free Santos: he's just another media parasite ripping away at everything, and that rules.
October 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Of course you'd free Santos: he's just another media parasite ripping away at everything, and that rules.
"organogram" proteanmag.com/2025/10/13/p...
Planning Against Palestine • Protean Magazine
In a follow-up to his and Brenna Bhandar's "Slumlord Empire", Alberto Toscano writes about the Trump administration's Gaza ceasefire plan's genocidal logic of displacement and accumulation.
proteanmag.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
"organogram" proteanmag.com/2025/10/13/p...
Got my official "language passport" in Switzerland: I can now casually order a 6 chf "long black" in French.
October 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Got my official "language passport" in Switzerland: I can now casually order a 6 chf "long black" in French.
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The smartest stupid album you'll see promoted for #bandcampfriday this month is @foxydigitalis.bsky.social and my triumphant return as BUILDING BUILDINGS, the three-track, 50min amplified drawing exploration out now on The Jewel Garden:
thejewelgarden.bandcamp.com/album/drawin...
thejewelgarden.bandcamp.com/album/drawin...
Drawing Building Drawings, by Building Buildings
3 track album
thejewelgarden.bandcamp.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The smartest stupid album you'll see promoted for #bandcampfriday this month is @foxydigitalis.bsky.social and my triumphant return as BUILDING BUILDINGS, the three-track, 50min amplified drawing exploration out now on The Jewel Garden:
thejewelgarden.bandcamp.com/album/drawin...
thejewelgarden.bandcamp.com/album/drawin...
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I told you about how @charlesgrocery.bsky.social told me he had to pull over when listening to Pink Helicopters on a road trip, right? He was worried the sounds on the album were something having come loose on his car
October 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I told you about how @charlesgrocery.bsky.social told me he had to pull over when listening to Pink Helicopters on a road trip, right? He was worried the sounds on the album were something having come loose on his car
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Reprinted!
May 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Reprinted!
"Wealth above, and death below: in recent history this arrangement has proven to be remarkably tolerable." illwill.com/fascism-and-...
Fascism and the Spectacle of Death • Ill Will
Ian Alan Paul on the capitalist form of death that animates the fascist project.
illwill.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:10 AM
"Wealth above, and death below: in recent history this arrangement has proven to be remarkably tolerable." illwill.com/fascism-and-...
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New publication with Philosophy of Photography questions what it means to look at images of atrocity within contexts defined by their financialization, instrumentalization, and deployment within machine learning and AI applications.
intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
Learning from atrocity: When machines regard the pain of others | Intellect
The images that have emerged from Gaza, capturing catastrophic violence inflicted upon the Palestinian people by the state of Israel, are atrocious, haunting, injurious. Gaza-based photojournalist Mot...
intellectdiscover.com
May 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
New publication with Philosophy of Photography questions what it means to look at images of atrocity within contexts defined by their financialization, instrumentalization, and deployment within machine learning and AI applications.
intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
It's 2025, all the countries are dogshit.
May 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
It's 2025, all the countries are dogshit.
"Early propaganda videos and cartoons from the 1950s and 1960s featured the Murmeltier, or marmot, drawn or filmed at peace among alpine wildflowers — then quickly ducking into its hovel at the sight of an eagle..." www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Why Does Switzerland Have So Many Bunkers? — The Dial
Inside the underground civilian shelters.
www.thedial.world
April 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
"Early propaganda videos and cartoons from the 1950s and 1960s featured the Murmeltier, or marmot, drawn or filmed at peace among alpine wildflowers — then quickly ducking into its hovel at the sight of an eagle..." www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Three from Annecy.
April 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Three from Annecy.
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Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
April 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
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Reposted by Jon Gaboury
Blogged a little about Crumb...
dominobooks.org/blog.html
dominobooks.org/blog.html
dominobooks.org
April 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Blogged a little about Crumb...
dominobooks.org/blog.html
dominobooks.org/blog.html
"Trapped like a trap in a trap." -Dorothy Parker, "The Waltz"
"Such a reader has a mindbox inside of a mindbox inside of a mindbox and so on." -Dionne Brand, An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading
"Such a reader has a mindbox inside of a mindbox inside of a mindbox and so on." -Dionne Brand, An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading
April 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
"Trapped like a trap in a trap." -Dorothy Parker, "The Waltz"
"Such a reader has a mindbox inside of a mindbox inside of a mindbox and so on." -Dionne Brand, An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading
"Such a reader has a mindbox inside of a mindbox inside of a mindbox and so on." -Dionne Brand, An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading
"An imperial literature prefers the realism of showing the imperfect domesticity within an American empire." lithub.com/viet-thanh-n...
Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire
One way to understand the dilemma of contemporary American literature in the age of Donald Trump is to see it as an imperial literature. The United States is a different kind of empire, exerting gl…
lithub.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:24 AM
"An imperial literature prefers the realism of showing the imperfect domesticity within an American empire." lithub.com/viet-thanh-n...
Listened to Stevie Wonder and Joanna Newsom this evening as kid peeled the seaweed from the sushi and just ate that. Isn't she lovely!
April 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Listened to Stevie Wonder and Joanna Newsom this evening as kid peeled the seaweed from the sushi and just ate that. Isn't she lovely!