Great! I’m glad I’m not alone. And I enjoyed the film but I realized he doesn’t want pynchon’s history of countercultures so much as zany action + dark humor (or something)

1. I scan the book reviews in the TOC emails from major journals in my field, which means I’m several months late to the party (unless they’re reviewing advance copies)
2. Bluesky 🤷

Conflict b/w globalism and nationalism is difficult to entangle because 1) globalism denies nationalism in name but depends on it in practice; 2) globalism erodes democracy as an institution but claims it as a ‘moral attitude’ (thus confusingly coercing the Left to the center)

The Leonardo Da Vinci museum has a jacquard loom! Plus a whole media technology through the ages section. Added bonus: models of plans for perpetual energy machines which is kind of bizarre to imagine a world w/o entropy