Kyle Parry
@kyleparry.bsky.social
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because I need to be with you, because I want to learn from you and learn with you. I have been studying how we can be together. I have been studying how we are together. — in Fred Moten Commencement Speech, Stateville Correctional Facility, 2022 [quoted in www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
On Criticism: Studying How We Are Together | Portable Gray: Vol 7, No 2
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September 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
because I need to be with you, because I want to learn from you and learn with you. I have been studying how we can be together. I have been studying how we are together. — in Fred Moten Commencement Speech, Stateville Correctional Facility, 2022 [quoted in www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Y’all shouldn’t be in here; none of y’all who are here, anywhere, should be in here. I don’t want you to be in here and I don’t want to be in here with you, but I am so happy and so proud to be here because I am happy and proud to be with you,
September 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Y’all shouldn’t be in here; none of y’all who are here, anywhere, should be in here. I don’t want you to be in here and I don’t want to be in here with you, but I am so happy and so proud to be here because I am happy and proud to be with you,
August 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
was toying with something maybe related recently, thinking of political exercises of certain “memetic virtues,” eg coded, in-group refusal of virtues, or vices as virtues, as exercised in shares, speech acts, memes, photo ops (a communal vice playing) - this playing on concept of epistemic virtue
July 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
was toying with something maybe related recently, thinking of political exercises of certain “memetic virtues,” eg coded, in-group refusal of virtues, or vices as virtues, as exercised in shares, speech acts, memes, photo ops (a communal vice playing) - this playing on concept of epistemic virtue
Han Kang: “Only in the gap between darkness and light, only in that blue-tinged breach, do we manage to make out each other’s faces.”
Imagining this same thought in Le Guin’s character Genly Ai, looking out to Estraven’s face in their journey across the ice, the two books blending
Imagining this same thought in Le Guin’s character Genly Ai, looking out to Estraven’s face in their journey across the ice, the two books blending
July 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Han Kang: “Only in the gap between darkness and light, only in that blue-tinged breach, do we manage to make out each other’s faces.”
Imagining this same thought in Le Guin’s character Genly Ai, looking out to Estraven’s face in their journey across the ice, the two books blending
Imagining this same thought in Le Guin’s character Genly Ai, looking out to Estraven’s face in their journey across the ice, the two books blending
Apparently I'm not built for figuring this out
June 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Apparently I'm not built for figuring this out
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June 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
as quoted in Etymonline: www.etymonline.com/search?q=build
... the lawyer a reputation; the landlord a town; and the tailor, as in England, BUILDS up a suit of clothes. A fire is BUILT instead of made, and the expression is even extended to individuals, to be BUILT being used with the meaning of formed. [Farmer, "Slang and Its Analogues," 1890]
June 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
... the lawyer a reputation; the landlord a town; and the tailor, as in England, BUILDS up a suit of clothes. A fire is BUILT instead of made, and the expression is even extended to individuals, to be BUILT being used with the meaning of formed. [Farmer, "Slang and Its Analogues," 1890]